With the 2023 PNC Championship Just Hours Away, Who Are the Top Sponsors Behind the Event’s 26th Edition?

On the Floridian greens, the golfing world will see the PNC Championship, the family golfing event, unfold. Past legends and rising stars of the golfing silo will be seen competing alongside family members at the Ritz-Carlton Golf course.

The event has been known by many names in the past courtesy of its changing sponsors and increasing duos. With a stable partnership of 12 years with PNC Bank as the main sponsor, the Championship has been known as the PNC Championship. Read ahead to learn all about the sponsors for the event.

The 2-decade-old sponsor of the Father/Son Challenge

The PNC Championship, previously known as the Father/Son Challenge, was first held in 1995 in Windsor Club, Florida. The challenge has the IMG and NBC at the heart of it and was renamed in 2005 after the sponsor changed from Office Depot to the MBNA World Points challenge.

The event saw the change again in 2006 to Del Webb. However, the partnership ended in 2011, and the PNC Financial Services Group Inc. became the title sponsor of the event for the 2012 edition. The challenge was then renamed in 2020 to the PNC Championship from the PNC Father/Son Challenge.

From just 10 teams of major or the PLAYER winner and their son, the event now held pairs of 20 teams and different pairs like Father/Grandson, Father/Daughter, Son/Father, and Daughter/Father, it only seemed appropriate to change the challenge’s name to mirror the field’s diversity.

Along with IMG and NBC as the founders on the sponsor’s deck and PNC as the title sponsor, there are 18 other partners and sponsors for the 2023 PNC Championship as well. From food to drinks, the event attracts sponsorship from various niches.

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Moreover, PNC also donates some proceedings to the Arnold Palmer Hospital and the Arnold and Winnie Palmer Foundation. Since the partnership with PNC Bank in 2012, it has donated $1.5 million to both organizations.

The other sponsors and event partners of the PNC Championship

The championship patterned with The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in 2012 and has been with since then. The food partners of the event are Bubbas’s 33, Texas Roadhouse, and 4 Rivers Smokehouse. The beverage sponsors are Pepsi, High Noon, Korbel, Corona, Tito’s Handmade, and Cincoro.

Moreover, the event also has AT&T, Advent Health, Cadillac, Greyson, Laser Action Plus, EWR Radar Systems, and John Daly’s foundation, Heart of a Lion. The event gets the backing of many heralded sponsors and it is set to start its first round on 16th December. After 36 holes of scramble, the winner will get $200,000 from the $1.085 million prize purse and the Willie Park Trophy.

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