PGA Championship 2025: Southern Hills announced as future PGA Championship site

CHARLOTTE — The PGA Championship is returning to Tulsa.

New PGA of America CEO Derek Sprague announced Tuesday at Quail Hollow that his organization 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 Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol. (The 2030 event is now going to Congressional.) After the 2022 PGA, won in a playoff by Justin Thomas, Southern Hills 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 rumored, 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.

FUTURE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP SITES

2026 — Aronimick Golf Club, Newton Square, Pa.,

2027 — PGA Frisco, Frisco, Texas

2028 — The Olympic Club, San Francisco

2029 — Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield, N.J.

2030 — Congressional C.C., Bethesda, Md.

2031 — The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, Kiawah Island, S.C.

2032 — Southern Hills C.C., Tulsa, Okla.

2034 — PGA Frisco, Frisco, Texas