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TRUIST TOURNAMENT IN PHILLY IS A SIGNATURE EVENT

Truist Tournament Philadelphia 2025  (download pdf article)

By Mike Kern,
A little over a decade ago, Philadelphia Cricket Club opted to do an Oakmont to its Wissachickon Course, which was already considered to be among the best in the area if not all of Pennsylvania.  Oakmont, on the opposite side of the state, had of course removed many if not most of its trees between the time it hosted the 1994 U.S.  Open and the 2007 championship.  And most agreed that it had only made one of the best layouts in the country even better.  And they said much the same about Philly Cricket, which also has the newer Militia track that’s also highly ranked.

By the way, Aronimink has done something similar, and it’s going to host the PGA Championship next year.  But we digress.

Since its transformation, Cricket has hosted a number of prominent events, including the 2015 PGA Professional National Championship, the 2016 Senior Players Championship (won by Bernhard Langer) and the USGA Four-Ball Championship last year.  And now, it will take it up even another notch.  On May 8-11 it will be the venue for the PGA Truist Championship, the first time the PGA Tour has been to Philly since the BMW Championship that was part of the FedEx Cup playoffs was played at Aronimink in 2018. [Read More…]

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