Golfers will be playing against the Texas heat in 2025.
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Spectators planning to attend LIV Golf’s tournament when it returns to the Dallas area this year should be prepared to handle the Texas heat.
LIV Golf unveiled its 14-event schedule for 2025 on Jan. 7. The upstart competitor to the PGA Tour will return to Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton on June 27-29. It will be the ninth event on the LIV Golf schedule, right in the heart of the season.
Last year’s event concluded the schedule with LIV Golf’s Team Championship. That event took place during a hot weekend in late September and was ultimately won by Ripper GC — an all-Australian foursome consisting of Cameron Smith, Lucas Herbert, Marc Leishman and Matt Jones. It could be even hotter this year, with the event slated to take place at the beginning of summer.
This year’s event will also take place just a couple of weeks after Carrollton resident and LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau defends his title at the U.S. Open.
Maridoe Golf Club, owned by Albert Huddleston, will once again host the event. Huddleston, a billionaire who made his fortune in oil and gas, purchased what was then called the Honors Club in 2014 and has spent millions to upgrade and improve the course so it can host major tournaments. Last year’s event marked LIV Golf’s debut in the golf-rich Dallas-Fort Worth region.
Other LIV Golf events in 2025 will take place at Trump National Doral in Miami, Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City and Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia. The season-ending Team Championship will take place this year at The Cardinal at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan.
DFW will also again host two PGA Tour events that have taken place in the region for years.
The CJ Cup Byron Nelson will take place once again at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney on May 1-4. The tournament used to take place in mid-May but was moved a couple of weeks earlier beginning last year.
The Byron Nelson took place for years in Las Colinas before moving to Trinity Forest Golf Club, southeast of downtown Dallas, in 2018. Not played in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament moved north to TPC Craig Ranch in 2021.
TPC Craig Ranch, owned by Invited Inc., is currently undergoing a $15 million renovation led by former PGA golfer Lanny Wadkins. Last year’s Byron Nelson event, won by Taylor Pendrith, drew more than 200,000 spectators.
A few weeks after the Byron Nelson, the PGA Tour will return to North Texas for the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth. The tournament will take place May 22-25, the week following the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Colonial has hosted the Charles Schwab Challenge, once known as the Colonial National Invitational, since 1946. Davis Riley won the tournament last year.