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 Assistant Championship Championship), and Wes Short, Jr. (one PGA Tour win) PGA Assistant Championship The PGA Assistant Championship is a golf tournament for golf club assistant professionals. It has been held by the PGA of America since 1977. Rules for 2007 have the field made up of the assistant champions from each PGA section, section qualifiers, the defending champion and a representative from the PGA of Australia, The Professional Golfers' Association and the Canadian PGA. The 2015 Champion was Andy Mickelson. Notable players who won this event before competing on the PGA Tour include Loren Roberts (eight PGA Tour wins), Fred Funk