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With changes aplenty, the 2018-2019 PGA Tour schedule is here

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8 years ago

Jul 10, 2018

Calendar lovers, scheduling enthusiasts, and golf fans too: the long awaited day is here. The PGA Tour today presented its 2018-2019 schedule.

“A cadence of events highlighted by significant championships every month,” the Tour called the 46-tournament schedule, which now concludes before the NFL season starts.

A few quick notes

The FedEx Cup is now three events instead of four.
Two new tournaments: the Rocket Mortgage Classic June 24-30 in Detroit and the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Minneapolis.
The RBC Canadian Open moves from late July to June 3-9.
The Players Championship moves from May to March (11-17) and the PGA Championship moves from August to May (13-19).
The final World Golf Championships event of the season will now be held at TPC Southwind in Memphis as the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational.
The Houston Open and A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier move to the fall.

Here’s the whole darn thing, as posted to PGATour.com

DATE	TOURNAMENT	COURSE	LOCATION
10/1 – 10/7	Safeway Open	Silverado Resort and Spa (North Course)	Napa, California
10/8 – 10/14	CIMB Classic	TPC Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
10/15 – 10/21	THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES	Nine Bridges	Jeju Island, Korea
10/22 – 10/28	World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions	Sheshan International Golf Club	Shanghai, China
10/22 – 10/28	Sanderson Farms Championship	Country Club of Jackson	Jackson, Mississippi
10/29 – 11/4	Shriners Hospitals for Children Open	TPC Summerlin	Las Vegas, Nevada
11/5 – 11/11	Mayakoba Golf Classic	El Camaleon Golf Club at the Mayakoba Resort	Playa del Carmen, Mexico
11/12 – 11/18	The RSM Classic	Sea Island Resort (*Seaside Course, Plantation Course)	St. Simons Island, Georgia
BREAK
12/31 – 1/6	Sentry Tournament of Champions	Kapalua Resort (The Plantation Course)	Kapalua, Hawaii
1/7 – 1/13	Sony Open in Hawaii	Waialae Country Club	Honolulu, Hawaii
1/14 – 1/20	CareerBuilder Challenge	PGA WEST (*Stadium Course, Nicklaus Tournament Course); La Quinta Country Club	La Quinta, California
1/21 – 1/27	Farmers Insurance Open	Torrey Pines Golf Course (*South Course, North Course)	San Diego, California
1/28 – 2/3	Waste Management Phoenix Open	TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course)	Scottsdale, Arizona
2/4 – 2/10	AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am	*Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore Course)	Pebble Beach, California
2/11 – 2/17	Genesis Open	The Riviera Country Club	Pacific Palisades, California
2/18 – 2/24	World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship	Club de Golf Chapultepec	Mexico City, Mexico
2/18 – 2/24	Puerto Rico Open	Coco Beach Golf & Country Club	Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
2/25 – 3/3	The Honda Classic	PGA National Resort & Spa (The Champion Course)	Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
3/4- 3/10	Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard	Bay Hill Club and Lodge	Orlando, Florida
3/11- 3/17	THE PLAYERS Championship	TPC Sawgrass (THE PLAYERS Stadium Course)	Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
3/18 – 3/24	Valspar Championship	Innisbrook, a Salamander Golf and Spa Resort (Copperhead Course)	Palm Harbor, Florida
3/25 – 3/31	World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play	Austin Country Club	Austin, Texas
3/25 – 3/31	Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship	Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course)	Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
4/1 – 4/7	Valero Texas Open	TPC San Antonio (AT&T Oaks Course)	San Antonio, Texas
4/8 – 4/14	Masters Tournament #	Augusta National Golf Club	Augusta, Georgia
4/15 – 4/21	RBC Heritage	Harbour Town Golf Links	Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
4/22 – 4/28	Zurich Classic of New Orleans	TPC Louisiana	New Orleans, Louisiana
4/29 – 5/5	Wells Fargo Championship	Quail Hollow Club	Charlotte, North Carolina
5/6 – 5/12	AT&T Byron Nelson	Trinity Forest Golf Club	Dallas, Texas
5/13 – 5/19	PGA Championship #	Bethpage State Park (Black Course)	Bethpage, New York
5/20 – 5/26	Charles Schwab Challenge	Colonial Country Club	Fort Worth, Texas
5/27 – 6/2	the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide	Muirfield Village Golf Club	Dublin, Ohio
6/3 – 6/9	RBC Canadian Open	Hamilton Golf & Country Club	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
6/10 – 6/16	U.S. Open #	Pebble Beach Golf Links	Pebble Beach, California
6/17 – 6/23	Travelers Championship	TPC River Highlands	Cromwell, Connecticut
6/24 – 6/30	Rocket Mortgage Classic	Detroit Golf Club	Detroit, Michigan
7/1 – 7/7	3M Open	TPC Twin Cities	Blaine, Minnesota
7/8 – 7/14	John Deere Classic	TPC Deere Run	Silvis, Illinois
7/15 – 7/21	The Open Championship #	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Portrush, Northern Ireland
7/15 – 7/21	Barbasol Championship	Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Trace)	Nicholasville, Kentucky
7/22 – 7/28	World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational	TPC Southwind	Memphis, Tennessee
7/22 – 7/28	Reno-Tahoe Tournament	Montreaux Golf and Country Club	Reno, Nevada
7/29 – 8/4	Wyndham Championship	Sedgefield Country Club	Greensboro, North Carolina
8/5 – 8/11	THE NORTHERN TRUST	Liberty National Golf Club	Jersey City, New Jersey
8/12 – 8/18	BMW Championship	Medinah Country Club (Course No. 3)	Medinah, Illinois
8/19 – 8/25	TOUR Championship	East Lake Golf Club	Atlanta, Georgia

With respect to the early opinions, here are a few.

Writing for PGATour.com, Jim McCabe riffed on discussions with Olin Browne and Joe Durant.

“What caught Browne’s attention was the climactic finish to next season – three consecutive weeks of the FedExCup Playoffs culminating with the TOUR Championship Aug. 22-25. Reducing the FedExCup Playoffs by one and concluding the season before Labor Day and the onrush of football are definitive exclamation points, in Browne’s view, and two former PGA TOUR competitors who helped give shape to the FedExCup Playoffs agree.

“It’s more dynamic, instead of the season petering out like it used to,” said Joe Durant, who was a member of the Policy Board when the FedExCup debuted in 2007. Another Policy Board member was Brad Faxon, who recalls that “we always had the thought to eliminate competing against the NFL when the FedExCup started. This new schedule is good. I think it’s better to have only three playoff events.”

Writing for GolfChannel.com, Rex Hoggard offered praise and approval but cautioned that there will be an adjustment period to the condensed schedule.

“Essentially, the Tour had to shed four weeks off the season to move out of football’s shadow. Losing the Boston playoff event and the post-season “bye” week was half the bill. The Houston Open was relocated to the fall portion of the schedule, and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was replaced by an existing event in Memphis.

“If that all sounds clean and easy, consider that the run up to the post-season will now feature a major (The Open), a World Golf Championship (Memphis) and the Wyndham Championship. Including the three playoff stops, that’s five must-play events in a six-week window.
How this congestion impacts events like Bay Hill or the AT&T Byron Nelson, which will now be played the week before the PGA Championship, remains to be seen, but there will be tough choices made.

“Consider the RBC Canadian Open, which has been mired in a post-Open Championship vortex, will now be played the week before the U.S. Open. Depending on where the American championship is played, the move could give the field in Canada a boost, but it’s hard to imagine how it’s going to lead to long-term improvements.”

ESPN’s Bob Harig praised moving the PGA Championship to May, however, he worries that given the host venues and time of year for that tournament, weather and conditioning could be problems. He praised wrapping the Playoffs before the NFL season begins, and also said, “golf-mad markets in Minneapolis and Detroit are rewarded with PGA Tour events, the Canadian Open moves off a tough date after The Open, the WGC event in Akron loses a sponsor in Bridgestone but picks up a big one in FedEx.”

Those are a few thoughts from long-serving scribes. What do you think about the new schedule, GolfWRX members?

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2026 PGA Championship betting odds

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1 day ago

May 12, 2026

Gianni Magliocco

Scottie Scheffler leads the betting ahead of the second major championship of the year, with the World Number One a +345 favorite to get his hands on a second PGA Championship.

Rory McIlroy who won the Masters back in April is a +800 shot to complete half of the calendar slam at Aronimink Golf Club this week, while Jordan Spieth can be backed at +5900 to become a career grand slam winner.

Here is the full betting board for the 2026 PGA Championship courtesy of DraftKings.

Scottie Scheffler +345 – (Check 0ut his WITB here)

Rory McIlroy +800 – (Check out his WITB here)

Jon Rahm +1300
Cameron Young +1500
Bryson DeChambeau +1700
Xander Schauffele +1850
Matt Fitzpatrick +1950
Ludvig Aberg +2000
Tommy Fleetwood +2600
Collin Morikawa +3500
Brooks Koepka +3900
Justin Rose +4300
Russell Henley +4600
Si Woo Kim +4700
Justin Thomas +4800
Robert MacIntyre +5300
Patrick Cantlay +5300
Viktor Hovland +5400
Tyrrell Hatton +5500
Jordan Spieth +5900
Sam Burns +6000
Hideki Matsuyama +6200
Adam Scott +6400
Rickie Fowler +7000
Chris Gotterup +7400
Patrick Reed +7400
Min Woo Lee +7800
Ben Griffin +8000
Sepp Straka +8400
Shane Lowry +9000
Akshay Bhatia +9200
Maverick McNealy +9200
Joaquin Niemann +9200
Jake Knapp +9200
Jason Day +9600
Kurt Kitayama +10000
J.J. Spaun +10000
Harris English +10500
Nicolai Hojgaard +11000
Gary Woodland +11000
David Puig +11000
Michael Thorbjornsen +12000
Jacob Bridgeman +12000
Keegan Bradley +12500
Corey Conners +14000
Alex Fitzpatrick +15000
Sungjae Im +15500
Sahith Theegala +15500
Harry Hall +15500
Alex Noren +16000
Thomas Detry +16500
Marco Penge +16500
Kristoffer Reitan +17000
Alex Smalley +17000
Wyndham Clark +17500
Sam Stevens +17500
Keith Mitchell +17500
Daniel Berger +18500
Ryan Gerard +20000
Nick Taylor +20000
Rasmus Hojgaard +21000
Dustin Johnson +21000
Pierceson Coody +23000
Aaron Rai +24000
Jordan Smith +24000
Angel Ayora +24000
Bud Cauley +25000
Matt McCarty +26000
Jayden Schaper +26000
Brian Harman +27000
Taylor Pendrith +27000
Ryan Fox +27000
J.T. Poston +27000
Cameron Smith +29000
Ryo Hisatsune +29000
Michael Kim +29000
Max Homa +29000
Denny McCarthy +29000
Tom McKibbin +30000
Rico Hoey +32000
Matt Wallace +32500
Ricky Castillo +33000
Haotong Li +33000
Michael Brennan +34000
Max Greyserman +36000
Stephan Jaeger +37500
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +37500
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen +39000
Aldrich Potgieter +40000
Andrew Novak +42000
Patrick Rodgers +42500
Daniel Hillier +42500
Max McGreevy +46000
Billy Horschel +48000
Chris Kirk +48000
Ian Holt +49000
Casey Jarvis +49000
William Mouw +50000
Steven Fisk +50000
John Parry +50000
Nico Echavarria +52500
Garrick Higgo +52500
John Keefer+55000
Matthias Schmid +57500
Austin Smotherman +57500
Sami Valimaki +60000
Andrew Putnam +60000
Lucas Glover +62500
Daniel Brown +62500
Jhonattan Vegas +75000
Emiliano Grillo +80000
Mikael Lindberg +85000
Adrien Saddier +100000
Bernd Wiesberger +100000
Elvis Smylie +110000
Stewart Cink +130000
Kota Kaneko +130000
David Lipsky +150000
Chandler Blanchet +150000
Andy Sullivan +150000
Joe Highsmith +180000
Adam Schenk +200000
Travis Smyth +200000
Davis Riley +225000
Martin Kaymer +400000
Brian Campbell +400000
Padraig Harrington +450000
Kazuki Higa +450000
Jordan Gumberg +450000
Ryan Vermeer +500000
Austin Hurt +500000
Tyler Collet +500000
Timothy Wiseman +500000
Shaun Micheel +500000
Y.E. Yang +500000
Michael Block+500000
Mark Geddes+500000
Luke Donald+500000
Bryce Fisher+500000
Jimmy Walker +500000
Jason Dufner +500000
Jesse Droemer +500000
Jared Jones +500000
Garrett Sapp +500000
Francisco Bide +500000
Zach Haynes +500000
Paul McClure+500000
Derek Berg +500000
Chris Gabriele +500000
Braden Shattuck +500000
Ben Polland +500000
Ben Kern +50000

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Photos from the 2026 PGA Championship

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2 days ago

May 11, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

GolfWRX is on site for the second major of 2026: The PGA Championship from Aronimink in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

The tournament’s location, just outside Philadelphia, and its status as a major championship mean GolfWRXers are in for a treat: WITBs from a strong field, custom gear celebrating the PGA Championship, and the rich culture of the City of Brotherly Love — we have noted a relative absence of cheesesteak-themed items thus far this week, but most of the rest of the usual suspects are well represented.

Check out links to all our photos below.