The PGA Tour is bringing yet another tournament to one of its favorite host states: North Carolina.
The Tour announced Monday that a third event will be played in the Tar Heel State in 2026: The Biltmore Championship, which will be played Sept. 17-20, just one week before the 2026 Presidents Cup. The event will take place at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, an Asheville area property that is home to a Jack Nicklaus design.
The event will be part of the Tour’s Fall Series, and is organized via a four-year agreement between the Tour and co-sponsors, the Biltmore Estate and Explore Asheville. North Carolina now joins California, Texas and Florida as the only states with three annual Tour events.
The Asheville event joins the Good Good Championship in Austin as new Tour stops for 2026 — signs of expansion (or inflation) at a time when the sizeof the Tour is under sharpest watch. The Tour has cinched the number of full-status members to just 100, the results of which are finalized during the fall. But while the number of Tour cards may be decreasing, the number of events apparently will stay around 42 or 43, from January through November.
The Cliffs at Walnut Cove is one of a number of “Cliffs” private courses throughout the Carolinas.
This won’t be Asheville’s first time playing host to pro golfers. The LPGA visited in the 1950s, and the PGA Tour had an annual stop there in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, in the form of the Asheville Land of the Sky Open, which Ben Hogan won several times.
The event bolsters the Tour’s offerings in September. After moving away from that month with its playoff events in recent years — to avoid conflicting with the NFL season — the Tour has been operating with just one September event, in Napa. The U.S. Ryder Cup team used that event this fall as a team training camp of sorts, then taking a week off before facing Team Europe at Bethpage Black. This new event will offer another opportunity for Presidents Cup players to face PGA Tour competition in the run up to next year’s Cup at Medinah Country Club.
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