The HotelPlanner Tour is moving north and east, away from potentially unpleasant weather caused by altitude and towards potentially unpleasant weather caused by latitude. Behind us in Catalunya we leave a fascinating event, one which I suspect will be quite predictive of the players who see success for the rest of this season. Like the more ballyhooed PGA Championship, this was a tight affair where as many as 20 players went into the final round with a chance. Local lad Pablo

After a week off for the PGA Championship, the DP World Tour returns to action for this week’s Soudal Open. This event, formally known as the Belgium Open, has not been a consistent stop on the DP World Tour Schedule but is now being played for the fifth consecutive year. It was first played in 1910 and was won by Frenchman Arnaud Massey. Lee Westwood won two editions of this event in 1998 and 2000 but then the event was dropped from the schedule following his second victory.

Introduction After the grind of Aronimink, the PGA Tour returns to Texas, and frankly, the contrast couldn't be more jarring, or more welcome. Last week's PGA Championship was a brutal, wind-whipped examination of every facet of the game, with punishing rough, slick greens, and conditions that wore players down mentally and physically. Aaron Rai walked away with the Wanamaker Trophy, and now we pivot to McKinney, Texas, where TPC Craig Ranch awaits, a course that, at least hi

After surprising us with a new event and a new course, the KFT heads back to very familiar turf for the Knoxville Open. The Colonial Life last week saw a first win for Cole Sherwood, with his third top ten of a promising season after he had weeks of both great promise and mediocrity last year, in what was his first full season on the KFT. The former Vanderbilt Commodore was a top-20 amateur and is one of the many highly promising young players on the KFT. It’ll be interesting

Pushed back a few weeks on the PGA Tour schedule from a season ago, THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson now follows the PGA Championship. This of course, was due to the addition of the Cadillac Championship as a Signature Event this season. THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson is annually played at TPC Craig Ranch and has been since 2021. THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson was first played in 1944 and won by legendary five-time major champion Byron Nelson in which the event is now named after. The event used th

A wonderful story on the HotelPlanner Tour last week as Chris Wood picked up the win. If you don’t know Wood’s story, he was a Ryder Cupper in 2016 who, has suffered through serious mental health struggles and a corresponding drop in form as a golfer, and had to earn his HotelPlanner Tour card by winning three times on the MENA Tour this winter. This was his first HPT start of the season, and it was a win. There’s a tiny bit of me that is irritated that I didn’t find him as a

This is a big week in golf. We finally have the HPT and the KFT running events in the same week. That’s the first time since I covered the Cape Town Open and the Astara Golf Championship back at the beginning of February. So naturally the focus of the week is on… some event for club pros in Philadelphia? Oh, c’mon! Look, the attention of the golfing world is rightly on the second major of the season, but I would urge you to spend at least a few minutes looking at the alternat

Introduction Major championship season is officially in full swing, and after Rory McIlroy delivered one of the most emotionally charged moments in golf history defending his Masters title at Augusta in April, the sport now turns its attention to the Philadelphia suburbs for the 108th PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club. For the first time since Gary Player hoisted the Wanamaker Trophy here in 1962, the grounds of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania will host men’s major champio

The Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G has found a new slot in the LPGA schedule, moving from September to May this season. Along with the move within the schedule, a new host venue will take center stage this week. The Donald Ross designed Maketewah Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio will host a professional golf event for the very first time. Kenwood Country Club was the original host of this event, founded in 2023. The event then moved to TPC River’s Bend for th

The PGA Championship makes its long awaited return to Aroniminik Golf Club, 64 years after hosting its first major championship. Gary Player won his first of two PGA Championships and third of his nine major championship titles here in 1962. It takes the PGA Tour to Newton Square, a suburb of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia area hosted the 2025 Truist Championship at the Philadelphia Cricket Club a season ago. Of course, the PGA Championship is the second-of-four majors on the

Playing for a fourth consecutive week, the PGA Champions Tour heads to Texas for this week’s Insperity Invitational. As one of the tour’s longest standing non-major events, the Insperity Invitational was first played in 2004. It was first known as the Administaff Small Business Classic. However, the first four editions were played at Augusta Pines Golf Club. It then moved to its current host, The Woodlands Country Club in 2008. The Tournament Course at The Woodlands Country

After a long break, the HotelPlanner Tour is back – and settle in, folks, because they’re coming at you for 24 of the next 26 weeks. The good news is, we’re back in mainland Europe which means an “orthodox” HPT field – no co-sanctioning here – and we’re at a fantastic course. Let’s dive in. The Tournament The Italian Challenge has been an integral part of the Challenge Tour for some considerable time – as well it might be, given the increasing strength of Italian golf, and

Introduction There's something genuinely fun about Myrtle Beach week on the PGA Tour. Most alternate-field events feel like the Tour is running on autopilot, a perfectly fine tournament that nobody really gets worked up about. This one is different. The ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic has carved out its own identity in just two editions, partly because the Dunes Golf and Beach Club is a legitimately great golf course, partly because the Grand Strand community has embraced this

Introduction The Truist Championship returns to Charlotte, North Carolina this week after a one-year absence, the club ceded its traditional hosting duties in 2025 to accommodate Scottie Scheffler's third major title, the PGA Championship. This isn't just a prestigious Signature Event returning to one of the finest venues in American golf. It's the last major tune-up before the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club the following week, a course that demands every bit of the

The LPGA heads from Mexico to New Jersey for this week’s Mizuho Americas Open. This event was founded in 2023 and each of the previous three installments have been played at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey. This season, the Mountain Ridge Country Club in West Caldwell, New Jersey will play host. Mountain Ridge Country Club will also host the 2027 edition. The event will move back to Liberty National Golf Club for 2028 through 2030. This five-year agreeme

As the future of LIV Golf remains in limbo, the 2026 season will continue on as scheduled with this week’s LIV Golf Virginia. Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) has announced that it will be pulling funding for the Tour after the season. Additionally, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of PIF and co-founder of LIV Golf, has stepped down as chairman of the tour. Either way, LIV Golf Virginia will continue on as scheduled this week at Trump National Golf Club in Washington D.C. Th

In anticipation of the 2031 Ryder Cup being played in Spain, a new event has emerged on the DP World Tour Schedule. This week marks the inaugural playing of the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship that will be played at the Pink Course at Real Club de Golf El Prat in Barcelona, Spain. This event sparks the beginning of the ‘Road to 2031’ as the Catalonia Camiral Golf and Wellness Resort in Costa Brava, near Barcelona, Spain will host the 2031 Ryder Cup. The Estrella Damm Cat

With the Tour’s best taking to Quail Hollow for this week’s Truist Championship, the ‘golf capital of the world’ will host an alternate-field event this week. For the third time, the PGA Tour will visit Myrtle Beach, with 2024 being the first installment. If you’ve ever vacationed in Myrtle Beach, there’s a large chance yourself or someone coming with you packed their golf clubs in hopes of playing one of the hundreds of golf courses that litter the area. The Dunes Golf & Bea

The Truist Championship returns to the historic Quail Hollow Club after being played at the Philadelphia Cricket Club a season ago. Quail Hollow hosted the 2025 PGA Tour Championship, won by Scottie Scheffler. Due to this, the Truist Championship was relocated for one season. This is also the final stop before the second major event of the season, the aforementioned PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club. Formerly the Wells Fargo Championship, the event gained the title spon

Just two weeks removed from the first major of the season in the Senior PGA Championship, the PGA Tour Champions takes on the second major of the season this week. Regions Tradition, also known as The Tradition, takes center stage as 78 of the world’s best senior golfers take to the Founders Course at the Greystone Golf & Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama this week. The Founders Course has played host since 2016. This event was first played in 1989, making this year the 37t