{"id":49588,"date":"2026-08-12T23:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/49588\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:29:18","slug":"pga-tour-raymond-james-keep-greensboro-on-top-golf-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/49588\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour, Raymond James keep Greensboro on top golf circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PGA Tour said the Raymond James financial services firm has agreed to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/article\/news\/latest\/2026\/08\/12\/raymond-james-named-pga-tour-championship-series-sponsor-for-greensboro-area-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual Greensboro event<\/a> part of the tour\u2019s championship series starting in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows Gov. Josh Stein\u2019s signature Tuesday of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncleg.gov\/BillLookup\/2025\/H268\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 268<\/a> that allocates $10 million annually to the tournament for four years.<\/p>\n<p>The move makes a huge victory for the Triad, which had feared the loss of its major pro sporting event as the PGA realigns its schedule to feature 23 or 24 major tournaments attracting the tour\u2019s 120 top players. The state\u2019s third-largest metro area doesn\u2019t have an NBA or NFL team, like Charlotte, or an NHL team, like Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>The Greensboro event will continue to be led by the Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation and be held at Sedgefield Country Club, which is owned by Raleigh-based McConnell Golf.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the state subsidy, the Triad scored by landing a sponsorship with St. Petersburg, Florida-based Raymond James, one of the largest U.S. wealth management companies. Terms and length of the contract were not revealed. <a href=\"https:\/\/businessnc.com\/129323-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CEO Paul Shoukry<\/a> attended the Greensboro tournament last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament started as the Greater Greensboro Open in 1938. For 20 years, it has been sponsored by the Wyndham hospitality chain.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte\u2019s annual Truist Championship is also expected to be part of the tour\u2019s Championship Series, though a formal announcement has not been made. It had a purse of $20 million last year, more than double the level of the Wyndham Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will now be called the GO by Raymond James and is scheduled for Aug. 2-8, 2017. Sedgefield has hosted the event since 2008. There has been some unconfirmed speculation that the event may be moved to the spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PGA Tour has extensive history in Greensboro and central North Carolina, and we are eager to watch its next chapter unfold alongside our new partners at Raymond James,\u201d Mark Brazil, CEO of the Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation, said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PGA Tour\u2019s Greensboro event has one of the richest histories in men\u2019s professional golf, and we are proud to continue building on its longstanding legacy and local charitable impact with the support of our new partners at Raymond James,\u201d added Dhruv Prasad, PGA Tour\u2019s chief commercial officer.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/businessnc.com\/author\/dmildenberg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-del=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/davemildenverg-mug-2-100x100.jpg\" class=\"avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-100 photo\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PGA Tour said the Raymond James financial services firm has agreed to make the annual Greensboro event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,19263,531,144,19264],"class_list":["post-49588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pga-championship","tag-golf","tag-greensboro","tag-pga-championship","tag-pga-tour","tag-raymond-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}