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 State in 2026: The Biltmore Championship, which will be played Sept. 17-20, just one week before the 2026 Presidents Cup. The Cliffs at Walnut Covean Asheville-area property that is home to 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 Biltmore Estate and Explore Asheville. North Carolina now joins California, Texas and Florida as the only states with three annual tournament events.
Asheville event joins good good championship in Austin as the new tour stops for 2026 – signs of expansion (or inflation) at a time when MAGNITUDE of the tournament is under the keenest scrutiny. The tournament has brought the number of full status members to just 100, the results of which are finalized in the fall. But while the number of Tour cards may be down, the number of events will likely stay around 42 or 43 from January to November.
The Cliffs at Walnut Cove is one of a number of private Cliffs courses throughout the Carolinas.
This won’t be the first time Asheville has hosted professional players. The LPGA visited in the 1950s, and the PGA Tour had an annual stop there in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, in the form of the Asheville Land of the Sky Open, which Ben Hogan won several times.
The event bolsters the tour’s offerings in September. After dropping that month with its playoff events in recent years — to avoid conflict with the NFL season — the Tour has operated with just one September event, in Napa. The US Ryder Cup team used that event this fall as a team training camp sort of, then taking a week off before facing Team Europe at Bethpage Black. This new event will provide another opportunity for Presidents Cup players to face PGA Tour competition in the run-up to next year’s Cup at Medina Country Club.
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