Truist Championship 2025: Why the PGA Tour is heading to a cricket club in America
The PGA Tour has arrived again on the East Coast in one of America golf’s most storied cities with the 2025 Truist Championship taking place at Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Golf Course.
The event is a rebranded variety of the Wells Fargo Championship, which was formerly played at Quail Hollow. That course will instead host next week’s PGA Championship.
A star-studded field are battling it out in Philadelphia with Rory McIlroy making his first individual performance since his thrilling Masters win at Augusta.
However, last weekend’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson winner, Scottie Scheffler, isn’t in the field after he secured his first PGA Tour title of 2025 with a victory by eight strokes.
Despite its name, the Philadelphia Cricket Club has deep golfing roots, with its Wissahickon Golf Course in the argument for one of the best course designs in the USA.
With a strong field teeing it up just ahead of the second Major of the season, here are five things you need to know about the Truist Championship…
A cricket club – that’s all about golf
Founded in 1854, the Philadelphia Cricket Club is the oldest country club in the USA and was a sporting hub for cricket before emerging into a golfing arena.
After its brief cameo as a rare cricketing venue in the country, the Wissahickon Course opened in 1922 and has increased in popularity ever since, with it recently earning a spot in Golf Monthly’s Top 100 golf courses in the USA.
Designed by a genius with a vision
The Wissahickon Course was designed by A.W. Tillinghast, who was one of golf’s greatest course architects and designers. He also brought to life iconic tracks like Winged Foot that have hosted Major golf tournaments in the past.
The course is atypical to Tillinghast’s design portfolio with naturalistic routing and small, punishing greens – Wissahickon offers a serious challenge without overextension at 7119 yards.
It’s a true natural challenge
Some of the PGA Tour’s golf courses are littered with idyllic manmade hazards, including stunning water features and shapely bunkers to offer an ‘in your face’ challenge.
Wissahickon offers a more natural test, with rolling terrain, elevation changes and dense rough; it’s a no-nonsense track with no tricks. Players must be accurate with both tee shots and on their approach shots.
Putting on ’tilted saucers’
The greens will no doubt offer a challenge at the Truist Championship with their compact, quick and mind-boggling internal movement having been dubbed ’tilted saucers’ by those who have faced the challenge.
Landing on the wrong tier or missing an imposing ridge can ruin holes with putting statistics likely separating the best from the rest, especially late on Sunday when the organisers tighten the pin positions.
Philly is back on Tour
It’s not often that the PGA Tour makes a stop in the state of Pennsylvania.
While Wissahickon has hosted a series of amateur events like the US Amateur and PGA National Championships, the return of a PGA Tour-sanctioned event to the state is a welcome return that has been decades in the making.
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