2024 Procore Championship at Silverado Resort – Preview

Surrounded by the golden hills of the Napa Valley, the fall portion of the season begins out west with the Procore Championship (formerly the Fortinet Championship). California native, Sahith Theegala returns to defend his victory from last year. Before him, it was another California native, Max Homa who won in consecutive years. Played on the North course at the 1,200-acre property known as the Silverado Resort and Spa, this will be the eleventh year for the resort to host this event.

The North course at Silverado is one of the shortest on Tour and features extremely narrow tree-lined fairways, few hazards, non-penal rough, and tricky sloping greens. It is a very straightforward and scoreable course with a winning score that has averaged 17 under par since 2014.

This will be the second year that the PGA Tour will not start a new season in September. Rebranded as the “FedEx Cup Fall”, the eight events that will begin with the Procore Championship are a continuation of the season that just concluded at the Tour Championship. The main 2024 season officially finished a couple of weeks ago with the top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings being eligible for all eight “Signature” events as well as any other regular event in 2025.

Those players who finished outside of the top 50 can play in these fall events to improve their standing heading into next season, which includes playing their way into the first two Signature events next year. At the end of the fall series the players who finish the calendar year in positions 51-60 will be exempt for those two tournaments.

The Field

As will be the case for the majority of these fall tournaments, the field strength is extremely weak. Overall, only five of the top 50 ranked players in the world will be in attendance. The main headliners include Wyndham Clark, Sahith Theegala, Max Homa, Corey Conners, and Min Woo Lee. Numerous players will look to sharpen their game in preparation for the Presidents Cup which is two weeks away including each of the players listed above along with Mackenzie Hughes.

Silverado (North) – Course History

Having been a large Napa Valley ranch in the post-Second World War years, the original Silverado Country Club opened in 1955. 11 years later in 1966, famed golf architect Robert Trent Jones was called in to modernize the original course and also build a second one. By 1967, the “new” South course opened alongside the renovated North course.

From 1968 to 1976 the North course hosted a full-fledged PGA Tour event called the Kaiser International Open. And then from 1977 to 1980, it played host to a Champions Tour event. Fast forward to 2010 when two-time major winner, Johnny Miller bought the entire resort. In 2011, he redesigned both courses with the goal of landing a U.S. Open or PGA Championship, but he ended up settling for a new PGA Tour event called the Frys.com Open which began play in 2014. In 2016, it was changed to the Safeway Open. And then two years ago, the tournament began its new sponsorship with Fortinet.

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