PGA Event Comes to Bethpage Black

It’s not another major championship, but big-time golf is headed back to Long Island.

The PGA Tour officially announced Wednesday that it will take the first stop of the FedExCup Playoffs to famed , located in Farmingdale.

Bethpage Black hosted the U.S Open in 2002 and 2009. In both those years fans attending the major golf tournament parked at in Wantagh and were shuttled to the Farmingdale course. 

The Barclays, a global financial service provider that annually hosts a PGA Tour event towards the end of summer, has signed on to host the tournament through 2016, including stops at the Black next year and in 2016.

In recent years, the Barclays has been held at New Jersey venues including Liberty National (2009) and Ridgewood Country Club (2010). This year, the tournament will be played at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J.

"To bring The Barclays to Bethpage Black for the first time, and to return to Liberty National, Ridgewood, and Plainfield over the next five years guarantees world-class venues and competition for golf fans in the Tri-State area," said Bob Diamond, Chief Executive of Barclays PLC. 

Bethpage Black, designed by A.W. Tillinghast, last hosted the U.S. Open in 2009, a rain-drenched, five-day tournament won by Lucas Glover.  It became the first publicly owned course to host the Open back in 2002, where Tiger Woods outlasted the likes of Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson to win his second national championship. 

The next available U.S. Open date is 2020, but there’s no word if the USGA plans on returning to Bethpage. But they did recently 

Below are the venues the Barclays will visit through 2016:

2012 – Bethpage State Park’s Black Course, Farmingdale.

2013 — Liberty National, Jersey City, N.J.

2014 — Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, N.J.

2015 — Plainfield Country Club, Edison, N.J.

2016 — Bethpage State Park’s Black Course, Farmingdale.