Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, N.Y., will host the 105th PGA Championship on its famed East Course in 2023, the PGA of America announced.
It will be a record-tying fourth PGA Championship at Oak Hill, which was designed by Donald Ross and opened in 1925. Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., is the only other facility to host four PGA Championships.
“The PGA of America is proud to return to one of golf’s grand stages, Oak Hill’s East Course, which has tested the game’s greatest champions for nearly 70 years,” President Derek Sprague of the PGA of America said.
“Oak Hill’s membership and the Rochester community have always embraced major championships. Their enthusiasm for the game and collective spirit of hospitality is recognized in golf circles worldwide as something to behold.”
Jack Nicklaus won the next-to-last of his 18 major championships by seven shots at Oak Hill in the 1980 PGA Championship.
Shaun Micheel, nursing a one-stroke lead in the 2003 PGA, struck one of the greatest clinching shots in golf history when his 174-yard approach with a 7-iron on the 72nd hole left him with a two-inch tap-in birdie.
Jason Dufner posted a second-round 63 during the 2013 PGA Championship to set the East Course record and went on to claim the first major championship of his career.
Oak Hill was also the site of the 31st Ryder Cup in 1995, which Europe captured with a stunning final-day comeback, 14½-13½.
Other championships conducted at Oak Hill include the 2008 Senior PGA Championship (won by Jay Haas), the 1998 U.S. Amateur (Hank Kuehne), 1989 U.S. Open (Curtis Strange), 1984 U.S. Senior Open (Miller Barber), 1968 U.S. Open (Lee Trevino), 1956 U.S. Open (Cary Middlecoff) and 1949 U.S. Amateur (Charles Coe).
The 2023 Championship at Oak Hill will mark the 14th time that New York has hosted the PGA Championship, the most for any state. This dates to the inaugural PGA Championship in 1916 at Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, N.Y.
