A PGA Tour Champions tournament will debut in October 2024 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Little Rock, officials announced Thursday morning during a news conference in Little Rock.
The Simmons Bank Championship will be held Oct. 21-27, 2024, and will serve as the second round of the annual Charles Schwab Cup playoffs. The top 54 players in the Charles Schwab standings will compete for a spot among the top 36 to gain entry into the season’s final event.
The five-year agreement establishing the event was announced at the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, with Simmons First National Corporation Executive Chairman George Makris, PGA Tour Champions President Miller Brady and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in attendance.
The tournament will be held annually at Pleasant Valley Country Club.
It will mark the first PGA Tour Champions event held in Arkansas, and the first PGA Tour-sanctioned tournament in the state since the Korn Ferry Tour’s Fort Smith Classic in 2010.