Truist Championship
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Search complete. 3 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Truist Championship".
Sep 25, 2026
The Week the PGA Tour Came to Asheville
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21:57Rachel MalkaGUEST
He and I are based in Charlotte.
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21:59Rachel MalkaGUEST
We also do the Truist Championship, and then we're kind of co-leading this.
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22:02Rachel MalkaGUEST
But it was a lot of site visits, from whether Adam and I were driving here to our team located all over the country coming together.
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22:11Rachel MalkaGUEST
But just lots of coordination with local police, local fire, with the club.
Promotion, points, pathways: Everything you need to know about PGA Tour eligibility changes
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36:02Ryan LavnerHOST
This was a retroactive move by the PGA Tour where the top 30 in FedEx Cup points this season Are also going to be a part, guaranteed, of that championship series, because if you make the top 30, you made it all the way to East Lake and you were in the FedEx Cup finale, that also came with a two-year exemption, so that's going to be honored as well.
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36:24Ryan LavnerHOST
That's a really big deal for players like Alex Smalley or Chris Rayton, who won the signature event at the Wells Fargo Championship ... or excuse me, the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow.
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36:36Ryan LavnerHOST
Those players ascended to a level they had never been before, but now they have security that they're gonna be playing among-
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36:43Rex HoggardHOST
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8-29 Backspin The Golf Show
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27:58Rex HoggardGUEST
I think because the price tag is so high to sponsor one of those championship series events, you're talking about $33 million to $37 million, million dollars, they're probably going to want to spread that around.
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28:09Mike BauerHOST
You know, as you're talking about organizations and millions of dollars, one of the things that came out of Brian Rollap's press conference, but also earlier on Monday, and Rex, you wrote about this at golfchannel.com, right next to the story about the Truist Championship, is the reimagining of PGA Tour Charities, an amazing donation, $13 million, you put it in quotes, gift to PGA Tour Charities.
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28:31Mike BauerHOST
We also kind of find out a little bit more about that $5 million that a lot of people forgot about that Brooks Koepka has to make as a charitable contribution.
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28:41Mike BauerHOST
Rex, can you bring us up to the latest in terms of the charitable arm of the PGA Tour itself and not just those individual tournaments?