Top 5 Courses that have Hosted Two PGA Tour Events in the Same Year

Several hundred golf courses have played host to the PGA Tour over the past century. Only an elite few, however, have hosted two PGA Tour events in the same year. San Diego’s Torrey Pines (South) steps up in that role in 2025 as a replacement venue for the Genesis Invitational. The tournament had been scheduled as always for Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., but had to be moved due to the January fires that devastated the region.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the names on our list are very familiar as big-time stages. A couple of courses came close to making this list but didn’t. Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, played host to the PGA Tour’s Southwestern Bell Colonial in May 1991, then entertained the U.S. Women’s Open in July of that year. In 1976, Ohio’s Firestone Country Club played host to the American Golf Classic in August and the World Series of Golf in September. However, the August event was contested on Firestone’s North course, while the World Series took place on the South course.

Here then, are the top five courses that have hosted multiple PGA Tour events in the same year.

Harbour Town Golf Links—Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Pete Dye’s Harbour Town, a South Carolina Lowcountry masterwork designed in 1969 with Jack Nicklaus collaborating, has been a PGA Tour venue every year since. In 1989, it doubled the fun. Payne Stewart grabbed the springtime tournament known as the MCI Heritage Golf Classic, easing past Kenny Perry by five shots, with a winning score of 16-under-par 268. In late October of 1989, Harbour Town found itself in hosting mode again, when the Tour Championship—then called the Nabisco Championship—came calling. The Nabisco was supposed to have remained at Pebble Beach in 1989 after Pebble hosted in 1988, but according to a contemporary Sports Illustrated account, when the PGA Tour drew up the 1989 schedule, it had the Nabisco (Tour Championship) being played two weeks earlier. As it turned out, Pebble Beach was unavailable in that time slot, so Harbour Town filled in. Payne Stewart came close to winning again, but lost to Tom Kite in a playoff, after both men had finished at 8-under-par 276.

Pinehurst (No. 2)—Pinehurst, N.C.

It would seem that Pinehurst No. 2, Donald Ross’s sandy masterpiece in the pines, has pulled off double PGA Tour hosting duties on multiple occasions. Close, but not quite. Most famously, it was the venue for the dual U.S. Opens in June 2014, when Martin Kaymer romped by nine shots, followed the very next week by Michelle Wie’s inspiring win in the U.S. Women’s Open. In 1951, it played host to its 50th—and final—North and South Open, with Tommy Bolt the winner, the week after it held the Ryder Cup Match, won by the U.S., 9 ½ to 2 ½. Pinehurst also hosted the World Open and Hall of Fame Classic from 1973–1982, the PGA Tour Championship in 1991 and 1992, and the U.S. Senior Open in 1994. The only time it played host to two PGA Tour events in the same year was in 1936. In March, it hosted the North and South Open, won by Henry Picard, while in November, it held the PGA Championship. Denny Shute won that PGA, his second major championship following his 1933 British Open win at St. Andrews, by beating Jimmy Thompson in the final, 3 and 2.

Pebble Beach Golf Links—Pebble Beach, Calif.

Host to the PGA Tour since 1947, Pebble Beach is also a six-time U.S. Open venue, where winners include Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, and most recently Gary Woodland in 2019. Nicklaus secured the 1972 U.S. Open by clanking a 1-iron off the stick at the 71st hole, while Watson memorably chipped in for his 2 at the 71st to reign at the 1982 U.S. Open. Pebble Beach has served double duty on eight occasions. It hosted the Bing Crosby or AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am event in winter, followed by the U.S. Open in June of that same year in 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000, 2010, and 2019. Less remembered is that a drought-challenged, tawny-hued Pebble served as the 1977 PGA Championship host in August, when Lanny Wadkins defeated Gene Littler in the first sudden-death playoff in major championship history. Even further under the radar, Pebble Beach played host to the 1988 Tour Championship in November, when Curtis Strange edged Tom Kite in a playoff to capture the event known as the Nabisco Championship.

Riviera Country Club—Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Fabled Riviera will go without a PGA Tour event in 2025 for the first time since 1998, when the tournament known as the Nissan Open—now the Genesis Invitational—was played 30 miles north at Valencia Country Club. That year, Riviera gave up hosting duties because in July, it held the U.S. Senior Open. There were two years, however, that the Riv did take on double duty. The first was in 1948, when Ben Hogan won the Los Angeles Open at Riviera in winter and he triumphed again in June when the U.S. Open ventured to Riviera. With three wins at the Riv within 18 months, media dubbed Riviera as “Hogan’s Alley.” In 1995, Corey Pavin defended his title at Riviera in late February, winning the Nissan Open by three strokes from Jay Don Blake and Kenny Perry. Understandably, he was the favorite at that year’s PGA Championship in August, given he had just captured the U.S. Open in June. However, it was Steve Elkington who walked away with the Wanamaker Trophy, edging Colin Montgomerie in a playoff. Shockingly, Pavin missed the cut.

Torrey Pines (South)—San Diego, Calif.

Once again, Torrey Pines’s 7,700-yard South course hosts two different PGA Tour events in the same year, servicing as the venue for the 2025 Genesis Invitational two weeks after it played host to the Farmers Insurance Open. This cliff-top, municipally owned layout that peers out at the Pacific Ocean first double dipped in 2008, when Tiger Woods hit the “Daily Double”—winning the Buick Invitational in winter by an astounding eight shots over Ryuji Imada, then capturing the U.S. Open (with a broken leg!) in June, via a memorable playoff against Rocco Mediate. Torrey did so again in 2021, when Patrick Reed waltzed to a five-shot victory in February, and Jon Rahm lifted the U.S. Open trophy in June, when he slipped past Louis Oosthuizen by one, on a 278 total, 6-under-par.