ATLANTA — This week’s Tour Championship marks East Lake Golf Club’s penultimate year as the permanent host of the PGA Tour’s season-ending event—and the course’s future welcoming professional golf is uncertain.
The historic Atlanta country club has hosted every edition of the Tour Championship since 2004, but its contract is up after next year’s tournament, and in 2028 the PGA Tour will begin rotating among new venue hosts for a revamped, two-week Tour Championship to annually conclude future seasons with match play for the first time. Many of those will be courses the PGA Tour has never played at before or doesn’t visit very often.
East Lake won’t be out of the running altogether, though.
“Yes, East Lake is very much in the consideration set for future Tour Championship events for sure,” PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said Tuesday at his pre-tournament press conference. “We’ve had conversations with them. We’ll have more meetings this week.”
The PGA Tour has not mentioned any other specific courses that will be considered for Tour Championships. Rory McIlroy mentioned in his Tuesday press conference that the new two-week tournament could be “one week on the West Coast, one week on the East Coast,” which could theoretically put East Lake in the mix.
