PGA Professional Championship PGA Professional Championship The PGA Professional Championship is a golf tournament for golf club professionals and teachers who are members of the Professional Golfers' Association of America. It has been held by the PGA of America since 1968, when touring professionals split off to found the PGA Tour. The PGA Professional Championship was known as the PGA Club Professional Championship until 2006 and as the PGA Professional National Championship from 2007 through 2015. Since 1997, the tournament has usually been played in late June, six to seven weeks before the PGA Championship in mid-August. Previously, the club pro tournament had
PGA Assistants' Championship was reduced to 54 holes in 1969 and was not contested again. Since the championship restarted in 1981 it has been sponsored by Dorset Foods (1981–82), Footjoy (1983–84), Wilson Sporting Goods. (1985), Peugeot Talbot (1986–87), Peugeot (1988–92), Standard Life (1994), Reebok (1995–97), Maxfli (1999–2001), Powerade (2004), Powerade in association with FootJoy (2005–2014) and Galvin Green (2015–2017). PGA Assistants' Championship The PGA Assistants' Championship is a golf tournament for golf club assistant professionals. It is held by the British PGA. The Championship traces its origin back to the PGA's first major assistants' tournament at Bushey Hall Golf Club in October 1910.