The world’s best golfers will face five big tournaments over a six-week span in Spring 2026, including a new signature event in Miami.
The PGA TOUR will return to Trump National Doral and the famed “Blue Monster” course for the first time since 2016, which is certain to help repair a once-fractured relationship with the President of the United States, as his organization owns the club.
What’s being called The Miami Championship is one of 35 official regular-season events on the 2026 FedEx Cup schedule, leading into the 20th edition of the playoffs, a three-tournament postseason for the best of the best.
“We’re excited to showcase the game’s greatest players competing at golf’s most iconic venues,” said PGA TOUR chief executive Brian Rolapp.
Doral was a mainstay, attracting tremendous fields from 1962 to 2006, before transitioning to a World Golf Championships event from 2007 to 2016. It now returns for the first time in a decade, having hosted a LIV Golf League event the last four years.
A title sponsor has yet to be signed, but the TOUR is said to be in discussions with multiple unnamed companies interested in Miami.
The nine signature events each provide a $20 million prize purse and include the top 50 players from the previous year’s FedEx Cup standings, as well as in-season qualifying from the Aon Next 10 and Aon Swing 5:
- January 8-11 – The Sentry – Plantation Course at Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii
- February 12-15 – AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am – Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course, California
- February 19-22 – Genesis Invitational – The Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, California
- March 2-8 – Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard – Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Florida
- April 16-19 – RBC Heritage – Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
- April 30-May 3 – Miami Championship – Trump National Doral (Blue Monster), Miami, Florida
- May 7-10 – Truist Championship – Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina
- June 4-7 – The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio
- June 25-28 – Travelers Championship – TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut
What remains to be seen is whether some players might bypass any signature events in a springtime stretch that also includes The Masters and PGA Championship.
“Golf builds through the January, February, March months, and obviously golf gets a huge popularity spike or whatever through Augusta; and then to try to keep that momentum going, keep that momentum going through the next few weeks, through the PGA, U.S. Open, I think it’s a good thing,” Rory McIlroy said in advance of this week’s TOUR Championship. “It’s quite a bit of a workload for the players to play that much golf in that stretch, but I think it’s not as if we’re having to travel halfway around the world to do it. These are all pretty easy stops on the East Coast for the most part.”
It will be tough, condensed, and busy, according to Englishman Tommy Fleetwood.
“If you want to play all of them, what an amazing stretch of opportunities for you in terms of big events. “The great thing about golf is all of those weeks can completely change your year and change your career,” Fleetwood said. “We all have the option of scheduling it however we want in terms of what we play, what we don’t play, how we feel like our bodies will cope with it, how we feel like we’ll mentally cope with it.”
There’s very little change from the 2025 schedule except for a couple of tournaments changing dates. The Mexico Open will move to the fall, and the opposite-field event in the Dominican Republic will now take place the same week as the British Open. The Barracuda Championship in California has been dropped from the schedule.
In another shift, the Rocket Classic in Detroit goes from June — two weeks after the U.S. Open — to the first weekend in August, two weeks following the British Open, and a week before the Wyndham Championship concludes the regular season.
FedEx Cup Playoffs
The top 70 players in the season standings will qualify for the first postseason event, the FedEx St. Jude Championship (Aug. 10-16) at TPC Southwind in Memphis, with those players earning exempt status for full-field events and THE PLAYERS Championship in 2027.
From there, the top 50 finishers advance to the BMW Championship (Aug. 17-23) contested at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis for the first time since 2008. Those who make the field are fully exempt for the following season and qualify for all 2027 signature events.
Following the BMW, the top 30 players will head to Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club for the TOUR Championship, using the same format as this week. This is a 72-hole stroke-play event, where all players start at even par to determine the winner who will take home the FedEx Cup.
A View from the Top
“We’re thrilled with our momentum in 2025, as our season-long ratings and event attendance are confirming that our players and their stories are resonating with fans,” Rolapp added. “We extend our thanks to the entire membership – including Player Directors and the Player Advisory Council – as well as our events and partners, who are working alongside fans on a vision for the future of both the PGA TOUR and the game of golf.”
On to the Windy City for the Presidents Cup in the Fall
The 16th edition of the Presidents Cup will take place from September 21-27 at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, where USA Captain Brandt Snedeker will lead his team against Captain Geoff Ogilvy and the rest of the world.
