PGA Professional Championship to return to Bayonet Black Horse Courses in 2018

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (April 19, 2017) – Bayonet Black Horse of Seaside, California, a pair of premier public-access courses among the acclaimed Monterey Peninsula golf landscape, will host the 2018 PGA Professional Championship presented by Club Car and OMEGA, the world’s largest all-professional golf event.

The 51st edition of the PGA Professional Championship presented by Club Car and OMEGA will be June 17-20, 2018, marking the return of the 312-player event that was first conducted at Bayonet Black Horse in 2012. Bayonet Black Horse also was the site of the 2016 Senior PGA Professional Championship.

“The PGA of America is excited to return the PGA Professional Championship presented by Club Car and OMEGA to Bayonet Black Horse, long regarded among the most scenic and challenging courses to have hosted this national championship,” said PGA President Paul Levy. “The staff of Bayonet Black Horse has embraced our championships, and we anticipate another great edition in 2018 for our best playing PGA Professionals.”

Dick Fitzgerald, director of Seaside Resort Development, which operates Bayonet Black Horse said, “We are honored to be selected as the host of the 2018 PGA Professional Championship, and we welcome the return of the country’s premier PGA Professionals. By hosting the PGA Professional Championship presented by Club Car and OMEGA, Bayonet and Black Horse continues to cement its reputation as a home for professional championship golf and one of the great golf venues on the Monterey Peninsula.”

Overlooking Monterey Bay, Bayonet and Black Horse were named in honor of two U.S. Army divisions. The courses occupy property that was once part of the former Fort Ord military base. Bayonet was designed by Gen. Robert B. McClure in 1954, and after a redesign by Gene Bates, the course reopened in 2007.

Black Horse Golf Course, a 1964 joint original design by Gen. McClure and Gen. Edwin Carnes, was named in honor of the 11th Cavalry Regiment (Black Horse), which was stationed at the Presidio of Monterey (1919-1940).