Big changes are coming to the PGA Tour for 2028 and we're starting to see exactly what that looks like with four tournaments confirmed for the new-look Championship Series calendar after the Arnold Palmer Invitational was officially announced.
Brian Rolapp unveiled his vision for the new PGA Tour in June, with a new two-tier system coming into operation along with changes such as matchplay being introduced for the season-ending Tour Championship.
The Championship Series will contain 15 events outside of the Majors and Players Championship, with 120 players battling for $20m prize purses and a focus on iconic golf courses as venues.
Below that will sit the Challenger Series, with fields of 144 playing for $4m each week and some events given full exposure being played during off weeks for the top tier.
And we now know four of the 15 Championship Series events, with two iconic venues as expected being among the first names on the new-look calendar.
The Sentry at Torrey Pines has officially been named as a 2028 Championship Series event, and it could well be the season opener in what will be a landmark campaign on the PGA Tour.
Sentry is taking over from Farmers Insurance as title sponsor of the former San Diego Open, following the removal of the Tournamanet of Champions in Hawaii from the PGA Tour schedule.
So the software giant will now put its name on the event at the brilliant Torrey Pines, which has staged a PGA Tour event since 1952 and also hosted the US Open twice.
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Joining The Sentry will be the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill - the latest event to be announced by the PGA Tour on Thursday.
And the Travelers Championship, another $20m Signature Event for the last three years, played at TPC River Highlands in Connecticut, has also been confirmed in the line-up.
The fourth event confirmed for the 2028 Championship Series still has some pretty important details to be finalized - namely a host market and course.
An announcement was made though to welcome new sponsor Sompo, a Japanese insurance firm, to the PGA Tour as it will back an event next year at Silverado Resort’s North Course in Napa, California.
Taking place at the end of July 2027, the Sompo Championship will effectively replace the departing Rocket Classic in Detroit, but for 2028 it will move to a new permanent home which is reportedly most likely to be in Seattle.
So that's four of the slated 15 Championship Series events confirmed, which ones will be next?
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Which events & venues will join 2028 Championship Series?
The Travelers and Arnold Palmer Invitational were two of eight Signature Events this year, and all of the remaining six are expected to make it onto the Championship Series schedule.
So the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Genesis Invitational, RBC Heritage, Cadillac Championship, Truist Championship and The Memorial should all follow.
The Genesis has the most doubts surrounding it purely due to Riviera playing host to the Olympics in 2028, so it may be that an alternative venue is named initially.
You'd have to imagine the WM Phoenix Open will make it as one of the loudest and most attended events on the PGA Tour, and many believe it will be named as a top tier event soon.
Rolapp has also targeted new markets to explore for these new big events, and with Seattle set to get the Sompo Championship it leaves the likes of New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia and Denver as likely landing spots.
