{"id":275395,"date":"2025-11-11T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275395\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:48:10","slug":"pga-tour-returning-to-asheville-for-first-time-in-86-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275395\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour returning to Asheville for first time in 86 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. \u2014 The PGA Tour is returning to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina for the first time in 86 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BiltmoreChamp\/status\/1987883813649756172?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announcing<\/a> Monday a FedEx Cup Fall event starting next September to be sponsored by the Biltmore Estate and Explore Asheville.<\/p>\n<p>The Biltmore Championship in Asheville is scheduled for Sept. 17-20, 2026, the second new fall event the tour has announced in the last month. It will be held at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, a Jack Nicklaus signature design.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina already has the Truist Championship in Charlotte (May) and Wyndham Championship in Greensboro (August).<\/p>\n<p>The PGA Tour was last in Asheville in 1942, a four-year run of a tournament called Land of the Sky Open. Ben Hogan won his first individual tour title in 1940, the start of winning three in a row at Asheville.<\/p>\n<p>It was held a week before the Masters from 1940 through 1942. Now it will be the third week in September at a time most players are simply trying to retain their PGA Tour cards.<\/p>\n<p>The LPGA Tour played in Asheville from 1957 through 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the four-year deal with Asheville adds to a growing Fall 2026 schedule. The Good Good Championship in Austin, Texas, will be Nov. 12-15. Other Fall Series events for 2026 include stops in Utah, Japan, Mexico, Bermuda and the southeast Georgia coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. \u2014 The PGA Tour is returning to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-275395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}