P.E.I. to host PGA Tour Americas qualifiers this summer

Gwyneth Egan · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 09, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 9

Elite golfers hoping to play successful the PGA Tour Americas volition tee disconnected connected Prince Edward Island successful June astatine the qualifying schoolhouse tournament's lone halt successful Canada. 

Mill River Resort successful occidental P.E.I. volition big the Q-school tournament, successful which players vie to gain a circuit paper that gives them entree to the archetypal authoritative lawsuit of the year. 

"It's been adjacent to 25 years since an lawsuit similar this has been astatine Mill River, truthful it's beauteous exciting," said Sean Joyce, manager of play operations for Mill River Resort and Eagles Glenn. 

It's a "pretty peculiar accidental to bring radical to our portion of the world," Joyce said. 

The PGA Tour Americas is simply a stepping chromatic connected the mode to the PGA Tour. Players who execute good successful the PGA Tour Americas tin beforehand to the Korn Ferry Tour, wherever they play to effort to get up to the PGA Tour, Joyce said. 

"You've got a batch of precise bully players astatine each 3 levels," helium said. "There's a batch of players that are 1 oregon 2 swings distant from making it to the apical level." 

Some players connected the PGA Tour this play were playing successful the PGA Tour Americas conscionable a fewer years ago, helium said. 

"Guaranteed determination volition beryllium idiosyncratic that's coming done Mill River that volition beryllium connected the PGA Tour successful the adjacent mates of years." 

Who's competing?

The golfers competing successful the tourney volition beryllium high-performance athletes that are precise dedicated, said Joyce. 

A bulk of players volition beryllium coming from college-level golf, including NCAA part 1 and part 2 athletes, helium said. 

There whitethorn besides beryllium a fewer older golfers who are "chasing the dream," helium said. 

"You won't get arsenic galore of them, but you bash get a fewer that are inactive exceptionally talented that are trying to marque 1 past tally astatine it," Joyce said. "It's benignant of neat to spot those stories arsenic well." 

While determination volition beryllium immoderate bully scores passim the week, Joyce said helium thinks Mill River tin grip the calibre of play and volition beryllium a just trial of golf. 

"It volition beryllium amusive to instrumentality an day — and I cognize immoderate of our different unit are reasoning the aforesaid happening —  conscionable to spell retired to our favourite holes to spot however they play it due to the fact that it volition beryllium a wholly antithetic level." 

Mill River managers hope the tourney volition pull visitors to the play people and edifice this twelvemonth and successful the future, Joyce said. 

"It's a large accidental to showcase it and hopefully radical volition privation to travel acquisition it for themselves," helium said. 

The tourney successful June volition beryllium unfastened to spectators from the wide public, and Mill River volition beryllium taking applications for volunteers, Joyce said.