The first three editions of the tournament were played in Alabama at the Grand National course of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Opelika, northeast of Auburn.

In 2018, the tournament moved to Kentucky to the Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, south of Lexington, and was the first PGA Tour event (excluding majors) in the state in 59 years, since the Kentucky Derby Open in 1959.

[2] (Valhalla Golf Club near Louisville hosted the PGA Championship in 1996, 2000, 2014 and 2024.)

[3] Like other alternate events, the winner of the tournament does not earn an invitation to the Masters.

[4] It would also be an event that would give the leading non-exempt golfer entry into The Open Championship.