And now – Napa…

Northern California golf fans have had a couple of real treats in recent weeks; first came the U.S. Amateur in August, in its return to the Olympic Club for the first time since 2007, and then the Walker Cup coming to Cypress Point just last weekend, opening the gates of that hallowed ground to the general public for the first time since 1981. Next up is the Procore Championship, which starts this week at the beautiful Silverado Resort in Napa.

While not quite having the status of the two previously mentioned events, the Procore Championship is a tournament with a long and varied history that has always been a favorite of Bay Area/NorCal golf fans – and this year the event carries a special cachet. Beyond the allure of a beautiful Napa Valley setting, an interesting and challenging golf course, and loads of amenities for fans, with the biennial Ryder Cup competition coming up at the end of this month, ten of the members of the 2025 American Ryder Cup squad will be in the field at the Procore Championship, including current world #1 Scottie Scheffler.

The 2025 Procore Championship at Silverado Resort in Napa
will feature ten members of the 2025 American Ryder Cup team.

Three 2025 American Ryder Cup vice-captains – Brandt Snedeker, Webb Simpson, and Gary Woodland – all of whom have had success in NorCal events, are also in the field. Two of Snedeker’s nine PGA Tour victories came in Northern California in back-to-back years (2013/2014) at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am; Webb Simpson won the 2012 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club, and Gary Woodland was the U.S. Open champ when it came to Pebble Beach in 2019.

In addition to those distinguished names, four past winners of this event are returning to Napa for 2025: 2024 champion Patton Kizzire, 2023 winner Sahith Theegala, back-to-back winner (2021, 2022) Max Homa, and 2019 winner Cameron Champ, a NorCal native from Sacramento.

The Procore Championship has always had a lot going for it, with typically terrific Northern California weather, plenty of fan amenities, and its beautiful Napa Valley setting on a golf course that fans can actually come and play (let’s face it – it’s a lot of fun to watch golf at places like Pebble Beach, the Olympic Club, and Cypress Point, but the latter two are private clubs where most of us will never get the opportunity to tee it up, and Pebble is, well – really, really expensive…), and this year’s super strong field previewing the play of our upcoming Ryder Cup heroes make the 2025 event even more special.

To purchase tickets or learn more about the 2025 Procore Champion-ship, visit ProcoreChampionship.com.

Procore Championship is returning to Napa’s Silverado Resort

PGA Tour golf comes back to California’s wine country in three months as Procore Corporation returns for its second year as the presenting sponsor of the Tour’s Napa stop, at the famed Silverado Resort & Spa, September 8–14.

Practice rounds and pro-am events start tournament week off, Monday through Wednesday, 8–10 September, with competition rounds beginning on Thursday the 11th.

The tournament has a long and varied history, stretching back to 2007 over three venues (Scottsdale, Arizona’s, Grayhawk Golf Club; CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, California; and the current venue – Napa’s Silverado Resort & Spa) and three previous sponsors – Fry’s Electronics, Safeway, and Fortinet.

While the tournament’s spot in the PGA Tour calendar has remained fairly constant, its place in the scheme of things has not as the Tour veered from a calendar-year schedule to a split-year schedule and back again. Before the switch to a split-year schedule in 2013, this event’s early fall placement made it a post-Tour-Championship staple for newer players and fading veterans looking to boost their bank accounts while the big names took time off before the next year’s season opener in Hawaii. Starting in 2013 the event, as the Safeway Open, became the Tour’s season opener, and the awarding of FedEx Cup points boosted its appeal to players who wanted to get a jump on the year-long chase to the Tour Championship.

Previous sponsor Fortinet, an internet security firm, took over sponsorship from Safeway in 2021 with the openly admitted goal of possessing not only a prime venue in the heart of Northern California’s wine country, but THE prime spot in the PGA Tour schedule – the season opener.

Fortinet Senior VP Jim Overbeck was ambivalent, on the surface, about the change back to the calendar-year season when asked about it at a pre-tournament press conference in 2022, but the handwriting was on the wall, and the network security firm – who I always felt saw the tournament as a combination networking event and corporate party that just happened to have a golf tournament attached – pulled out of their deal with the PGA Tour and left the event’s local organizers scrambling for a presenting sponsor.

Current sponsor Procore, a construction management software company based in Carpinteria, California, is in the second-year of the two-year commitment they signed up for last year. Who knows where the event will go from here – but for now golf fans can once again look forward to enjoying good food, good wine, and world-class golf action at a handsome venue overlooked by the golden hillsides of the Napa Valley.

General admission tickets start at $55 per day and include access to PGA TOUR competition, all fan zones, and public viewing areas. Children 15 and under are admitted free with a ticketed adult (up to four per adult). Daily parking is available for $25 and can be purchased in advance online.

For a $250 daily ticket, fans looking for an upgraded experience can elevate their day at the Redwood Club, an all-new VIP shared hospitality venue behind the 18th tee. Amenities include front-row seating, a hosted daily lunch, beer and wine service, a full cash bar for spirits, and upgraded restrooms.

Ticketing information for the tournament is available online at https://procorechampionship.com/tickets/, and if an up-close, behind-the-scenes PGA Tour experience is what you are looking for, check out volunteer opportunities at https://procorechampionship.com/Volunteer/.