The PGA TOUR’S ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic will again be played in early May in 2026, with the competition dates set for May 7-10 at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club. The field size for the coming year will be slightly smaller, with 120 players competing, 12 fewer than in the past two years. Ryan Fox captured the 2025 Classic with a dramatic chip-in to win a three-way playoff over Harry Higgs and Mackenzie Hughes.
“This event took a big step forward in 2025 when we were able to add ONEflight International as a co-title sponsor with Visit Myrtle Beach,” said Darren Nelson, tournament director, who shared the scheduled dates for 2026. “With the additional backing and the support from our business community, volunteers and golf fans, we are showing that Myrtle Beach is a great home for a PGA TOUR event.”
The on-sale date for tickets and hospitality options to the 2026 ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic will be announced at a later date and become immediately available at https://oneflightmyrtlebeachclassic.com. Active and retired military personnel as well as first responders will be welcome to two free tickets to Wednesday’s practice round, and additional tickets (2 per day) for Thursday through Sunday will be offered at a 25 percent discount. Also of note is that children aged 15-and-younger will again be admitted free with a paying ticketholder.
The golf course was groomed to have taller rough heights in 2025 and it proved to be a tougher test the second time around, with the winner finishing at 15 under par, seven strokes higher than in 2024. But again, the Robert Trent Jones layout received rave reviews from the golfers.
“The general consensus from all the guys the last two years is they love the golf course, and I’m certainly one of those,” said the 38-year-old Fox, who claimed his first TOUR title. “The greens are small. They are fast, and they are sloped. All you’d have to do is grow the rough a little longer and this place would become a real test. I definitely think it stands up to a full-field event.”
“It’s fantastic,” said Higgs enthusiastically. “I think the town, the golf course, and everything that goes on here is first class. There are not five events on TOUR that I’ve played that are better than this.”
And Bill Haas, one of South Carolina’s homegrown elite pro golfers, capped the comments with, “I think every player raves about this course. They deserve to be a full-field event and get some of the best players to come here.”
The ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic has a commitment from the TOUR for four years, but tournament officials are already thinking about the future, and wanting more. “We will continue to do everything we can to elevate this event year over year, with the hope that these four years will be just the beginning of professional golf on the Grand Strand,” said Nelson.
“The Dunes Club layout will not change for 2026, and the players can expect that the golf course will be very similar to last year,” said Steve Hamilton, director of agronomy at the Dunes Club. “There won’t be any major changes. This golf course now can be as challenging as the TOUR wants to set it up.”
The winner of the Myrtle Beach Classic is again expected to earn a spot into the PGA Championship field, which will be contested at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa., from May 14-17, 2026.
The ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic is managed by SPORTFIVE, a global event management company. The Myrtle Beach event will again be one of two stops in the Palmetto State for the PGA TOUR in 2026.
