What will the PGA Tour look like in 2026? Here's a breakdown

While the PGA Tour Future Competitions Committee says everything is on the table for what the PGA Tour season will look like going forward, the 2026 Tour season will look a lot like what it has in the past. But there are a few exceptions.

Let’s start with the kickoff of the season. The Tour announced in late October that The Sentry at Kapalua Resort’s Plantation Course was canceled due to severe drought and water restrictions on Maui, making it impossible to maintain the course. A replacement couldn’t be found either.

So, the ’26 Tour season is beginning a week later than usual on Oahu at Waialae Country Club for the Sony Open in Hawaii. 

Then the West Coast Swing begins in earnest at The American Express and makes usual stops at Torrey Pines, TPC Scottsdale, Pebble Beach and Spyglass and Riviera Country Club. The Mexico Open has surrendered its spot in the FedEx Cup regular-season portion of the schedule that had been a bridge between the West Coast and Florida Swing. [The Tour confirmed it will be part of the fall schedule, with reports of being played Oct. 29 – Nov. 1.]

There will be no changes to the Florida Swing nor the Texas Two-Step (Houston and San Antonio) in the lead up to the Masters

In between majors, the Tour has added a new signature event, the Cadillac Championship, April 30-May 3, at Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster near Miami. That means back-to-back signature events (with the Truist Championship) leading into the PGA Championship and a stretch from the Masters to PGA with three sig events and two majors in a six-week stretch.

Good luck to the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on attracting a field.

Then things settle into a familiar rhythm and pattern for much of the remainder of the FedEx Cup regular season. The U.S. Open will be held at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island in New York, where Brooks Koepka won in 2018. The British Open returns to Royal Birkdale, where Jordan Spieth took the title with incredible heroics in 2017, although the R&A shifted the dates to avoid any conflict with the Olympics in Los Angeles. The Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic transitions from its traditional March date as an opposite-field event to opposite the British in July. The Rocket Classic shifts from before the Open to after it, dropping back to the second-to-last regular-season event.

The three FedEx Cup Playoff events remain the same with the exception of the BMW Championship taking the top 50 to St. Louis and Bellerive Country Club this year. That’s not the only Midwest addition to the calendar. The U.S. hosts the biennial Presidents Cup in late September at Medinah Country Club (No. 3) in Illinois. While the FedEx Cup Fall schedule hasn’t been announced yet, the Tour already has named two new tournaments – the Biltmore Championship in Asheville at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove and the Good Good Championship at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas.

Once again, the top 70 at the conclusion of the regular season make the playoffs and secure playing privileges for the following year; the top 50 after the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first playoff event, secure access to all eight signature events; the top 30 after the BMW Championship, the second leg of the playoffs, make it to East Lake for the Tour Championship, where all contestants start at even par and receive a two-year Tour exemption and traditionally a spot in the four majors the following year. The Fall sets up to be a fight for cards with only the top 100 fully exempt.

Change is coming but 2026 will look a lot like the PGA Tour of the past several years with only a few new wrinkles.

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