Golf Schedule December 2026: Hero World Challenge, Grant Thornton, PNC and TV Times

The Hero World Challenge runs Thursday to Sunday, Dec. 3-6, 2026, at Albany Golf Club in Albany, Bahamas, with a $5,000,000 purse, according to the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Tour. Eight days later the Grant Thornton Invitational opens in Naples, Florida (Dec. 11-13), and the parent-and-child event named for its sponsor, the Pittsburgh bank holding company (PNC), follows in Orlando as the PNC Championship (Dec. 17-20, per the tournament). The tables below put each event’s dates, course, purse and television windows in Eastern Time (ET) in one place, and a one-page printable follows.

Not everything is out yet. The 2026 Hero World Challenge field size and television windows are not yet announced, and the PNC Championship has not posted which days its two rounds fall on. Those gaps are marked below. Last year’s windows are labeled as last year’s.

December 2026 golf dates, courses and purses

Event	Dates	Course	Purse
Hero World Challenge (PGA Tour)	Thu., Dec. 3 to Sun., Dec. 6	Albany Golf Club, Albany, Bahamas	$5,000,000
Grant Thornton Invitational (PGA Tour and Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA))	Fri., Dec. 11 to Sun., Dec. 13	Tiburón Golf Club, Naples, Florida	$4.1 million, equal purse
PNC Championship (PGA Tour Champions)	Event week Thu., Dec. 17 to Sun., Dec. 20; the PGA Tour lists Mon., Dec. 14 to Sun., Dec. 20	Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Orlando	$1,085,000

Sources: PGA Tour tournament pages, the Grant Thornton release of Oct. 22, 2026 and the PNC Championship site. The weekdays are our calculation. The LPGA’s tournaments page lists the Grant Thornton Invitational as Dec. 11-13 in Naples, and it is the only LPGA event on its December list.

What are the Hero World Challenge 2026 details?

The Hero World Challenge is Dec. 3-6 at Albany Golf Club, a par 72 of 7,449 yards, per the PGA Tour’s tournament page. Hideki Matsuyama won the 2025 event at 22 under par (266). The field size for 2026 is not yet announced.

TV windows for 2026 are not yet announced either. For reference, the PGA Tour’s 2025 coverage guide listed these windows, all in ET:

2025 round	Golf Channel	NBC and Peacock
Thursday and Friday	1:30-4:30 p.m.	none listed
Saturday	noon-2:30 p.m.	2:30-5 p.m.
Sunday	11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.	1:30-4:30 p.m.

Treat that grid as last year’s pattern, not a 2026 schedule.

What is the Grant Thornton Invitational 2026 TV schedule?

Grant Thornton’s release says the event “takes place from Friday, Dec.11, through Sunday, Dec. 13, at Tiburón Golf Club.” It is the fourth annual event, a 32-player field split evenly between LPGA Tour and PGA Tour professionals, in 16 mixed teams. The three days use Scramble, Foursomes and a Modified Four-Ball format. The release gives the television windows in ET:

Day	Golf Channel	NBC
Fri., Dec. 11	1-4 p.m. ET	none listed
Sat., Dec. 12	2-3 p.m. ET	3-5 p.m. ET
Sun., Dec. 13	1-2 p.m. ET	2-4 p.m. ET

In 2025 Andrew Novak and Lauren Coughlin won at 28 under par, according to the event’s results page. The event’s own site shows “December 7-13”, which is the event week; the competition days are Dec. 11-13.

When is the PNC Championship 2026, and which days do the teams play?

The PNC Championship’s own site says “December 17 - 20, 2026” at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando. The PGA Tour lists the event as Dec. 14-20 with a $1,085,000 purse. We treat Dec. 17-20 as the event week per the tournament, and the days of the 36-hole rounds are not yet posted. The 2025 winners were the Matt Kuchar team at 33 under par, per the PGA Tour’s 2025 page, which showed Dec. 20-21, 2025.

Which DP World Tour events are in December 2026?

The DP World Tour schedule lists four, which open its 2027 season:

Event	Dates	Course	Local time vs. ET
Crown Australian Open	Dec. 4-7	Royal Melbourne Golf Club	Melbourne is UTC+11, 16 hours ahead of ET
Nedbank Golf Challenge	Dec. 4-7	Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, South Africa	South Africa is UTC+2, 7 hours ahead of ET
Alfred Dunhill Championship	Dec. 11-14	Royal Johannesburg	UTC+2, 7 hours ahead of ET
AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open	Dec. 18-21	Heritage La Réserve Golf Links	Mauritius is UTC+4, 9 hours ahead of ET

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) offsets are applied in December, when Eastern Time is UTC-5. As an example, noon in Melbourne is 8 p.m. ET the evening before, and noon in Johannesburg is 5 a.m. ET the same day. Tee times are not part of this schedule, so apply the offsets to the local times once they are posted.

Golf dates to mark on a December 2026 calendar

Mark Dec. 3, Dec. 11 and Dec. 17 on the December 2026 printable calendar or a printable weekly calendar. The one-page December golf printable lists each event, with the Grant Thornton Invitational windows in ET. For the month before, see the November 2026 golf schedule; the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix time zone guide shows the same kind of conversion for racing.