Aronimink Golf Club sits 17 miles west of Philadelphia in Newtown Square, on the rolling terrain of Delaware County. The 1928 Donald Ross design opened with a routing that Ross himself rated, in correspondence with the club, as one of the three best he had built. The PGA of America has staged the PGA Championship there once before — Gary Player won in 1962 — and returned for the 2026 edition with the championship rebuilt on a different footprint than the one Player played.
The most consequential intervention in Aronimink’s history was Andrew Green’s restoration project between 2018 and 2021. Green, who had previously restored Inverness in Toledo and Scioto in Columbus, was given a brief to take the course back to the 1928 Ross drawings held in the Ross archive at Tufts University Library. Eight greens were rebuilt to their original sizes (an average of 14 percent larger than the pre-2018 footprint). Twenty-three bunkers were either repositioned or removed entirely based on the original aerials. The tree-canopy management that had begun in the 2000s was completed, with another 312 trees removed across the 18-hole property to restore the wide-open Ross corridor sightlines.
The par-3 set is the heart of the course. The 6th plays 240 yards downhill across a creek — the longest par-3 in the 2026 PGA Championship and one of the longest in major championship rotation. The 14th, at 167 yards, is the shortest. The other two — the 7th (208) and the 16th (216) — sit in between, with the 16th green famously perched on a kicker-slope that funnels balls toward a single back-left flag position. As a four-hole set, the par-3s have averaged 0.18 strokes over par at PGA Tour events at the venue.
Keegan Bradley won the 2018 BMW Championship at Aronimink with a tournament total of 264, 20 under par. Hideki Matsuyama set the course record of 62 in the second round of that event — a 9-under-par effort that included an eagle on the par-5 16th when 16 was still configured as a par 5 (Green’s restoration converted it back to par-5 for member play but the PGA of America has it as par 5 for 2026 as well).
The 2026 setup is 7,267 yards at par 70, with the 11th and 18th holes converted to par 4 for the championship. The winner’s share is $3.42 million from a $19 million total purse. Scottie Scheffler arrives as defending champion of the previous PGA at Quail Hollow in 2025; Aronimink is one of the few courses on which Scheffler does not have prior PGA Tour competitive history.