Philly hosts PGA Tour 2025 Truist Championship opening round

Philly Hosts PGA Tour for Opening Round of 2025 Truist Championship

Philadelphia will be home to the Professional Golfers’ Association of America for the weekend, as the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection hosts the Opening Round of 2025 Truist Championship.

The 2025 Truist Championship is being held at The Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course in Philadelphia May 5-11.

Golfers from all over will be gathered at the Philadelphia Cricket Club (Wissahickon), as the tournament’s usual home, Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina, is preparing to host next week’s PGA Championship. 

Golf fans of the Greater-Philly area gleefully flocked to the beautiful golf course in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, to watch golf stars like Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele and many more on Thursday afternoon. While the morning started with the looming threat of storms that delayed opening tee times, it was a near perfect 77-degree spring afternoon for most of the afternoon during the first day at the 21st event in the FedExCup regular season. 

Keith Mitchell, lead golfer in the Truist championship, loves the look of the current course, attributing the traditional look of course bringing an authentic rarity that is hard to find on today’s courses.

“It’s a great golf course,” Mitchell said after his round. “Love playing it. Definitely old school. We don’t play a ton of these. It’s nice to have that as a little refresher out here.” Mitchell received one of four sponsor exemptions restricted to PGA Tour members to participate in the 2025 Truist Championship. He learned he’d be playing at the 2025 Truist Championship “give or take a week-ish ago.” 

Rory McIlroy, the FedEx Cup leader and defending Truist champion, says he loves playing in Philly whenever he has the opportunity, pointing to its rich city history and its enthused sports fans.

“It was amazing,” McIlroy said. “It was really nice. We got a really nice crowd out there.” The UK-born athlete is familiar with Philly’s sports reputation. “I think any time we do come to Philly, it’s a great sports town obviously, and people do get behind obviously their teams, but also the events that are brought here… the energy has always been great.” 

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