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2020 VSGA Championship & Events Schedule Features the deepest field of any Tour event. For the second straight year, the event will wrap up on Selection Sunday for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, a nice little one-two punch for sports fans. March 19-22: Valspar Championship | Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead) | Palm Harbor, Fla. | Paul Casey Casey became the event’s first back-to-back winner in 2019. The last person to three-peat at a single event was Steve Stricker at the John Deere Classic from 2009-11. *-March 26-29: Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Champion- ship | Corales GC | Punta Cana, D.R. | Graeme McDowell March 26-29: WGC Dell Technologies Match Play | Austin CC | Austin, Texas | Kevin Kisner Outside of international competition, it’s rare to see the pros tee it up in match play, which makes this event stand out. April 2-5: Valero Texas Open | TPC San Antonio | San Antonio, Texas | Corey Conners April 9-12: Masters | Augusta National GC | Augusta, Ga. | Tiger Woods Not like the Masters isn’t already appointment viewing to begin with. But Tiger going for major No. 16? We’ll be glued to the screen. April 16-19: RBC Heritage | Harbour Town GL | Hilton Head, S.C. | C.T. Pan April 23-26: Zurich Classic of New Orleans | TPC Louisiana | Avondale, La. | Ryan Palmer & Jon Rahm April 30-May 3: Wells Fargo Championship | Quail Hollow Club | Charlotte, N.C. | Max Homa May 7-10: AT&T Byron Nelson | Trinity Forest GC | Dallas | Sung Kang May 14-17: PGA Championship | Harding Park | San Francisco | Brooks Koepka Majors ending in primetime on the East Coast are the best. Harding Park, a muni in southwest San Francisco, is set to host the Presidents Cup in 2025. The Open returns to Winged Foot for the first time since 2006, when Geoff Ogilvy won in part due to Phil Mickelson’s misadventures on 18. Take note: Scores likely won’t be low. The winner has finished over par in four of the five Opens here. The excep- tion was Fuzzy Zoeller, who shot 4 under and won in a playoff in 1984. June 25-28: Travelers Championship | TPC River Highlands | Cromwell, Conn. | Chez Reavie July 2-5: WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational | TPC Southwind | Memphis, Tenn. | Brooks Koepka *-July 2-5: Barracuda Championship | Course TBD | Reno, Nev. | Collin Morikawa July 9-12: John Deere Classic | TPC Deere Run | Silvis, Ill. | Dylan Fritelli *-July 16-19: Barbasol Championship | Keene Trace GC | Nicholasville, Ky. | Jim Herman July 16-19: The Open Championship | Royal St. George’s GC | Sandwich, England | Shane Lowry No course in England has hosted more Opens than Royal St. George’s, the site of Darren Clarke’s emotional victory in 2011. July 23-26: 3M Championship | TPC Twin Cities | Blaine, Minn. | Matthew Wolff July 30-Aug. 2: Olympic Men’s Golf Competition | Kasumigaseki CC | Saitama, Japan | Justin Rose Aug. 6-9: Wyndham Championship | Sedgefield CC | Greensboro, N.C. | J.T. Poston Aug. 13-16: The Northern Trust | TPC Boston | Norton, Mass. | Patrick Reed Aug. 20-23: BMW Championship | Olympia Fields CC | Olympia Fields, Ill. | Justin Thomas Aug. 27-30: Tour Championship | East Lake GC | Atlanta | Rory McIlroy Under the new scoring format, McIlroy started the Tour Championship five shots behind Thomas but ended up five strokes ahead to win the FedEx Cup. It may be wonky, but it’s easy to follow, something that could not be said about the old system. Rory McIlroy May 21-24: Charles Schwab Challenge | Colonial CC | Fort Worth, Texas | Kevin Na May 28-31: Rocket Mortgage Classic | Detroit GC | Detroit | Nate Lashley June 4-7: The Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide | Muirfield Village GC | Dublin, Ohio | Patrick Cantlay June 11-14: RBC Canadian Open | St. George’s G&CC | Toronto | Rory McIlroy June 18-21: U.S. Open | Winged Foot GC | Mamaroneck, N.Y. | Gary Woodland 26 V I R G I N I A G O L F E R | J A N UA R Y / F E B R UA R Y 2 0 2 0 vsga.org