The PGA Championship is returning to Tulsa.
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New PGA of America CEO Derek Sprague announced Tuesday at Quail Hollow that his organisation has awarded its flagship event to Southern Hills in 2032.
Southern Hills was originally awarded in 2017 a future PGA, slated for 2030; however, it was tapped as a replacement host in 2022 after the PGA of America moved its championship from Trump Bedminster following the January 6 insurrection on the Capitol. (The 2030 event is now going to Congressional.) The 2022 championship, won in a playoff by Justin Thomas, was viewed as a successful host site from a financial and entertainment standpoint.
In all, Southern Hills has hosted eight men’s majors—three US Opens (1958, 1977, 2001) and five PGAs (1970, 1982, 1994, 2007 and 2022).
A product of the Great Depression and constructed by hundreds of workers who stood at the gate each morning hoping for a 25-cents-per-hour job that day, Southern Hills is considered architect Perry Maxwell’s great achievement. Nearly every hole bends left or right, posing critical tee shots that must risk something. The putting surfaces have the classic “Maxwell Rolls,” and most are guarded by simple yet effective bunkers. During the summer of 2018, architect Gil Hanse and crew rebuilt much of the course, in the process re-establishing Maxwell’s distinctive, gnarly edged bunkering and reconstructing the green shoulders that had been built up over the years.
The return to Southern Hills had been rumoured, with local Tulsa news sites asserting the announcement was imminent.As the sixth PGA to visit Southern Hills, no course has hosted more. The next two open dates for future PGAs are 2033 and 2035.