Aronimink Golf Club is just weeks away from hosting the 2026 PGA Championship.
It will be the first time the club has hosted the event since 1962, when Gary Player lifted the Wannamaker Trophy for the very first time. Since then, the course has hosted the Women’s PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, and the US Amateur, but no men’s majors.
2026 marks the return of Aronimink to the men’s major stage. In recent years, it has been known as one of the toughest golf courses on tour. It was ranked the 44th most difficult golf course in the world by Golf Digest in 2010.
But PGA Tour players have gotten the better of Aronimink since then, with Keegan Bradley winning the BMW Championship in 2018 with a score of 20-under par.
Adam Scott, who has two third-place finishes at the PGA Championship in his career, gave his thoughts on Aronimink as a major venue.
Adam Scott says what players must do well to win at Aronimink
Scott finished T51 last time the PGA Tour played at Aronimink, where he crashed out of the playoffs at the BMW Championship. He clearly found the golf course to be a sufficient test.
Speaking before the Cadillac Championship, one of the three Signature Events in the build up to the PGA Championship, the Australian gave his verdict on Aronimink as a major venue.
He said, “ I haven’t been up there and I haven’t been there since our last event, which was maybe 2018. I don’t know, I haven’t heard of drastic changes. I think it’s a severe set of greens.
“I would think probably putting at Quail Hollow’s not bad, they have got a fair bit of undulation. I think there’s more undulation at Aronimink and I think that’s really the defense of the golf course.
“I don’t know how tight they’re playing it, but it was incredibly soft when we were there last. So it feels a little bit like get your driver and your wedge game ready and if you have a good putting week, you’re going to do well up there.”
The player who should play well at the PGA Championship according to Adam Scott
If Scott is right and a hot putter is needed to win the PGA this year, then Jacob Bridgeman should be licking his lips. He won the Genesis Invitational over Rory McIlroy at a similar test of putting, so he’ll be keen to repeat that feat at Aronimink.
Bridgeman has been the best putter on the PGA Tour this year by a margin. He’s gained 1.12 strokes to the field on the greens, better than the perennial best putter on tour, Sam Burns.
The 26-year-old did struggle on the greens at Augusta National, losing strokes while putting for the first time this year, and wasn’t his usual red-hot self with the flatstick at the RBC Heritage either.
But if he can recapture his form going into the PGA, then he’ll be confident of battling for the Wannamaker trophy to claim his first major.
