After PGA Championship, Pennsylvania Targets PGA Tour Stop
"We invest $2.5 million in it, but this event alone is expected to generate $125 million."
The PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club just outside Philadelphia is capping off a strong run of top-tier golf tournaments for Pennsylvania—inluding the U. S. Open and PGA Tour’s Truist Championship last year, as well as the 2024 U.
S. Women’s Open. State officials are making efforts to make that a more common occurrence.
“I really do want the PGA Tour at Cobbs Creek,” Pennsylvania Deputy Secretary of Tourism Anne Ryan tells Front Office Sports . “I’m obsessed with it. ” Cobbs Creek is a 110-year-old public golf course in Philadelphia that’s in the final year of a major restoration project that was designed in part to make the venue capable of hosting major golf competitions.
In 2025, Tiger Woods’s foundation opened its TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia location at the course, too. “Cobbs Creek has such a phenomenal story,” Ryan says. “Tiger Woods is a partner in it.