Updates with comments from Barracuda executive director
If there is a professional golf stop near Reno next year, it won’t be part of the PGA Tour.
The PGA Tour announced its schedule for 2026 on Tuesday, and the PGA Barracuda Championship is nowhere on the calendar.
The most recent Barracuda Championship was held in July opposite the British Open Championship.
The Tour schedule has the Corales Puntacana Championship in Barracuda’s usual spot on the calendar. The Corales Puntacana, held in the Dominican Republic, is moving from April to July.
The Rocket Classic in Detroit is also changing dates, from late June to July 27-Aug. 2.
Chris Hoff, the Barracuda executive director, told the RGJ the tournament board of directors is working to find a new event and title sponsor.
Hoff wrote: “While the 2026 PGA Tour schedule does not currently include a stop in the Northern CA/Northern NV area, our local organizing team and others continue efforts to find a new partner to keep PGA Tour golf in our region. We look forward to providing updates over the coming months culminating in an exciting announcement and continuing our 27 years of charitable impact to our community.”
The Barracuda Championship is the only PGA Tour event to use a Modified Stableford Scoring format, having done so since 2012.
Barracuda Networks, a Silicon Valley based security company, took over as title sponsor in 2014 and in 2023 extended its support of the tournament through 2025.
In 2023, the PGA Tour announced that Barracuda Networks, Inc., had signed a multi-year extension as title sponsor of the Barracuda Championship. The tournament, which is recognized as a FedExCup event on the PGA Tour, has been held at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood Golf Course in Truckee since 2020.
The PGA Tour event started as the Reno-Tahoe Open in 1999 at Montreux Golf & Country Club in South Reno.
The last one?
Ryan Gerard, 25, won the PGA Barracuda Championship in July, after he made two back-to-back birdie-eagle combinations to capture his first PGA Tour win.
Gerard scored 13-points on the final day, despite five bogeys, to clinch the title with 47 total points and edge past former champion Erik van Rooyen.
Notable moments at Reno-Tahoe’s PGA Tour Stop
- 1999: Notah Begay III wins the inaugural event.
- 2006: Yūsaku Miyazato becomes only the second player in PGA tour history to score two holes-in-one in the same round.
- 2011: Scott Piercy wins in the final year as a stroke play event.
- 2016: Greg Chalmers eagles the 18th hole after Gary Woodland made bogey, earning entry into the Open Championship. Chalmers was making his 386th PGA Tour start, the most among active golfers without a win.
- 2017: In his 290th PGA Tour start, Chris Stroud won after planning to retire at season’s end.
- 2019: In just his sixth start as a professional, Collin Morikawa birdies the last three holes to win.
- 2024: Nick Dunlap, who won The American Express as an amateur, earned his first win as a professional.
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