PGA Tour adds sponsor for Quail Hollow event, which moves for 1 year to Philly [Video]

By Doug Ferguson, The Associated Press

Truist Financial Corp. is taking over as title sponsor for the PGA Tour’s signature event at Quail Hollow Club with a seven-year commitment, which includes a one-year detour in 2025 to Philadelphia Cricket Club.

The deal secures top-level golf in Charlotte, North Carolina, after Wells Fargo decided not to renew its sponsorship.

The Truist Championship will be the fourth name of the tournament that began in 2003 and immediately grew into a top tournament mainly through word-of-mouth from players who raved about Quail Hollow Club.

Quail Hollow is holding the PGA Championship for the second time next year. Truist and the PGA Tour chose to take the tournament to Philadelphia Cricket Club and its century-old Wissahickon Course.

The tournament went to Eagle Point in Wilmington, North Carolina, when Quail Hollow hosted the PGA Championship in 2017. It went to the TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm in Maryland in 2019 when …