Tickets for Kentucky’s PGA Tour event in Nicholasville go on sale next week

Tickets for the 2022 PGA Tour Barbasol Championship will go on sale Monday, May 9 as the annual professional golf tournament returns for its fourth year in Nicholasville.

This year’s event takes place July 7-10 at Champions at Keene Trace, just outside of Lexington. The PGA Barbasol moved from Alabama to Kentucky in 2018 and was granted a five-year extension in 2019 to remain in Nicholasville through at least 2023.

Troy Merritt won the tournament in 2018 and Jim Herman in 2019. The event was canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic. Last year, Seamus Power captured the championship of our state’s only PGA Tour event.

Previously, the Barbasol Championship was played the same weekend as the British Open. This year, the Barbasol will be played the week prior and offer, in addition to nearly $4 million in purse money and 300 FedEx points, a coveted entry to the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews.

When it arrived in 2018, the PGA Barbasol became the first regular-season tournament to be played in Kentucky since the Kentucky Derby Open was held in Louisville from 1957-59. The PGA’s Champions Tour for older players hosted a regular tournament in Lexington from 1983-97.

Visit Barbasolchampionship.com/tickets to order tickets, which are free for Monday’s and Tuesday’s practice rounds the week of the tournament and for Wednesday’s Celebrity Pro Am.

Grounds and clubhouse tickets will be available for purchase for single days or for the entire weekend.

Please contact event officials at (859) 536-8636 with questions.