The 2026 PGA Championship is coming to the Philadelphia region for the first time in 60 years. The Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Delaware County, last played host to the PGA Championship in 1962, when South African golf icon Gary Player won it all.

"It's an epic journey coming back here," Player said. "Everything in here, I think of the crowds cheering for you and my sweet wife, who I was with, how she kissed me three times on the 18th green. So you think of how they received me, and here I am, an honorary member."

Player's status of being an honorary member was celebrated with a room in the Aronimink Golf Club being dedicated to him as "The Gary Player Lounge."

"I don't know if I'm worthy of having a room named after me in an elegant club such as this," Player said.

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