The PGA TOUR Needs to Visit the Northeast More Often—And the Best Players in the World Agree

Outside of the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut, and the occasional major championship that comes up this way, the PGA TOUR never visits the Northeast and New England.

Any resident will tell you, it’s a special place for golf.

The trees, the summer weather, the history. It’s arguably the most underrated place in America to peg it.

The TOUR used to host tournaments at TPC Boston—Deutsche Bank Championship (2003-2016), Dell Technologies Championship (2017-2018), and The Northern Trust (2020)—but when the FedEx Cup Playoffs schedule changed, it said goodbye Beantown.

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I think it’s time for the TOUR to add a stop up in this neck of the woods—and the best players in the world agree.

“Look, Philadelphia is one of the best places in the U.S. for golf,” Rory McIlroy said Wednesday ahead of the Truist Championship at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. “There's so many great courses around here. We've got—we're playing the PGA at Aronimink next year. We're playing the U.S. Open in '30 at Merion. There's a lot of great golf in this area. It's a beautiful spot. I feel like we don't play enough tournaments in the Northeast.”

Justin Thomas echoed the same sentiment.

“It's spectacular. Obviously I would love to play some of the other—I haven't played Merion. I'm honestly kind of bummed that I hadn't played here beforehand because I selfishly would have tried to go play Merion while I was here, but I feel like it's in my best interest and my job to play the golf course that I'm playing this week. But it really is just so many courses in the Northeast,” Thomas said.

Justin Thomas. Truist Championship 2025. (Photo: Getty Images)

“I feel like obviously you don't want to be too vague and kind of group all of them together, but to me, it's just a different style and a different look of golf up here. It is. There's a place that's really close by that I was driving past, and they all look so cool," Thomas said. "I kind of think of it similar to like in Scotland or Ireland, it's not like—there's no bad golf courses it seems like you can play, you know what I mean?”

Some of the most passionate sports fans in the world reside up here. Philly, New York, Boston. The people would come out in droves to take in the sights of a TOUR event and watch the best players in the world. Just look at the Travelers. It’s one of the most attended tournaments year in and year out, and it just so happens to be one of the players’ favorites, too.

So, PGA TOUR, if you’re listening, come back up here more often. You won’t be disappointed.