The PGA Tour is bringing another tournament to one of its favorite host states: North Carolina.
The Tour announced Monday that a third event will be played in the Tar Heel State in 2026: the Biltmore Championship, which will be played from September 17 to 20, just a week before the 2026 Presidents Cup. The event will take place at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, an Asheville estate that features a Jack Nicklaus design.
The event will be part of the Tour’s Fall Series and is organized through a four-year agreement between the Tour and co-sponsors the Biltmore Estate and Explore Asheville. North Carolina now joins California, Texas and Florida as the only states with three annual Tour events.
The Asheville event joins the Good Good Championship in Austin as the new Tour ends for 2026 – signs of expansion (or inflation) at a time when the mate of the Tour is being closely monitored. The Tour has reduced the number of full status members to just 100, with results to be finalized in the autumn. But while the number of Tour tickets may decrease, the number of events from January through November will apparently remain around 42 or 43.
The Cliffs at Walnut Cove is one of a number of private ‘Cliffs’ courses in the Carolinas.
This won’t be the first time Asheville has played host to professional golfers. The LPGA visited in the 1950s, and the PGA Tour had an annual stop there in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, in the form of the Asheville Land of the Sky Open, which Ben Hogan won several times.
The event strengthens the Tour’s offering in September. After moving away from that month with the playoff events in recent years — to avoid conflict with the NFL season — the Tour is operating with just one event in September, in Napa. The U.S. Ryder Cup team used that event as a team training camp of sorts this fall, then took a week off before facing Team Europe at Bethpage Black. This new event will once again offer Presidents Cup players the opportunity to take on PGA Tour competition ahead of next year’s Cup at Medinah Country Club.
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