Rodeo Dunes, Colorado Golf Club have fans if Tour Championship ever moves from Atlanta

Rumblings renew for moving the PGA Tour’s championship tournament away from its home of 21 years

By Jim Bebbington

As the PGA Tour’s final event of the 2025 season, the Tour Championship, winds up at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta this weekend some Colorado golf clubs are getting mentioned as possible new homes for a championship event perceived by some to have grown stale at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club.

East Lake has hosted the championship since 2004. New PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp gave his introductory press conference this week and pledged that the 2026 season would be spent coming up with changes across the board to make the Tour more relevant in the year’s to come and it’s playoffs and championship better.

“How do you actually drive a competitive schedule where every event matters, that is connected to a postseason, but do it in a way where the best golfers can get together and actually perform well?” Rolapp asked. “I think that’s all an open question, and those are the things we’re going to look at with an open mind.”

Andy Johnson, the founder of the Fried Egg Golf podcast and media brands, has made a business out of making golf architecture conversations accessible to the average golfer. He’s also a long-time fan and supporter of the Keiser brothers, the pair who are leading Dream Golf as it builds Rodeo Dunes here in Colorado among several projects across the country.

So he may not be the most impartial judge, but its still a lot when he wrote this week about where the PGA Tour should consider taking the Tour Championship away from East Lake.

“An out-of-left-field suggestion, particularly if the Tour Championship were ever to go to match play, would be the new Keiser resort outside Denver,” he wrote. “It’s among the best American sites for golf that I have seen and offers a 45-minute drive from Denver International Airport, not too far flung for fans or players to find accommodations. The Coore & Crenshaw design will open for preview play this fall and will quickly climb to one of the best public golf courses in the world in short order. Rodeo Dunes, particularly with a match play format that protects it against the stigma of low scoring, would provide a world-class golf course for an event that feels less world-class every year, despite an elite field.”

In the same discussion Fried Egg’s Will Knights threw out Colorado Golf Club as one location that would make an ‘extraordinary host’ to the season-ending championship.

Rodeo Dunes is under construction near Roggen and is projected to host play sometime in 2026.

The full Fried Egg Golf discussion is here. 

Jim Bebbington is the Director of Content at Colorado AvidGolfer and can be reached at [email protected]

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