PGA Tour confirms Farmers ending Torrey Pines sponsorship

The PGA Tour confirmed on Friday that 2026 would be the last 12 months that Farmers Insurance coverage serves because the title sponsor of the Torrey Pines event, which can be held Jan. 29-Feb. 1 in San Diego.

Farmers has been the title sponsor of the occasion since 2010, extending what initially was a one-year settlement right into a 17-year run. Regardless of persevering with to function a sponsor for TGL, Farmers is getting out of the foremost golf event sponsorship enterprise.

“Farmers Insurance coverage has been an amazing sponsor of the PGA Tour, and we can’t thank them sufficient for his or her help of the Farmers Insurance coverage Open over the past 17 years,” the tour mentioned in an announcement.

In accordance with the Century Membership, $20 tens of millions in charitable donations have been distributed in the course of the Farmers period, per a Golf.com report. One other $5 million of in-kind contributions have been made together with 12,000 of volunteer time served.

“The event has generated tens of millions of {dollars} for charity and delighted golf followers in San Diego and past,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement. “As our sponsorship involves an finish, we have a good time every part we have achieved and need the PGA Tour and the Century Membership of San Diego continued success.”

Torrey Pines is one in every of 5 common tour stops whose title sponsorship contracts expire this 12 months. The others ar the Sony Open at Waialae in Hawaii, the Genesis Invitational at Riviera in Los Angeles, the Charles Schwab Problem at Colonial in Fort Value and the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield in Greensboro, N.C.

No new sponsors have but been introduced for any of these occasions.

Harris English would be the defending champion at this 12 months’s Farmers, with a subject that at present contains 22 of the highest 50 gamers on the earth rankings.

–Subject Stage Media