- November 17, 2025
Tabitha and Jim Furyk at Hammock Beach Golf Resort and Spa at a media day event for the Constellation Furyk & Friends tournament, which will be held at Hammock Beach's Ocean Course on Oct. 9-11, 2026. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Tabitha and Jim Furyk at Hammock Beach Golf Resort and Spa at a media day event for the Constellation Furyk & Friends tournament, which will be held at Hammock Beach's Ocean Course on Oct. 9-11, 2026. Photo by Brent Woronoff
PGA Tour Champions President Miller Brady (center) with Hammock Beach Golf Resor & Spa General Manager Brad Hauer (left) and tournament director Adam Renfroe (right). Photo by Brent Woronoff
The Constellation Furyk & Friends trophy. Photo by Brent Woronoff
The press conference for the Constellation Furyk & Friends golf tournament, Nov. 3, at Hammock Beach Resort & Spa. From left, Tabitha Furyk, Jim Furyk, Constellation Executive Vice President Jim McHugh, Hammock Beach General Mananger Brad Hauer, PGA Tour Champions President Miller Brady and tournament director Adam Renfroe. Photo by Brent Woronoff
The Constellation Furyk & Friends golf tournament at Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa is still 11 months away, but tournament hosts and organizers are already drumming up excitement for the event, beginning with a media day and outdoor press conference held Nov. 3 on site with the Atlantic Ocean serving as a backdrop.
Jim Furyk and his wife, Tabitha, are moving their PGA Tour Champions event with their title sponsor, carbon-free energy producing company Constellation, to Hammock Beach’s Ocean Course. They had hosted the tournament for five years at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville.
“This is definitely the most ideal setting for a press conference of all time,” exclaimed tournament director Adam Renfroe, who facilitated the press conference, which also included Jim and Tabitha Furyk, Hammock Beach General Manager Brad Hauer, PGA Tour Champions President Miller Brady and Constellation Executive Vice President Jim McHugh.
Hammock Beach last hosted a Champions tour event in 2007 and 2008.
The Furyk & Friends tournament will run Oct. 9-11, 2026, with events running all week, beginning with Operation Shower on Oct. 4, which is a group baby shower for military expectant families, and including pro-ams on Oct. 7-8 and a concert following the first round of play on Oct. 9. The tournament purse is $2.1 million.
Jim Furyk, a 17-time winner on the PGA Tour, said, “We're going to have this little golf tournament with 78 of the best players in the world over the age of 50, Hall of Famers. It brings folks out, but really it's about our foundation, Tabitha's vision. It's about banding our communities together to bring folks out to create revenue for the wonderful (charitable) organizations.”
Tabitha Furyk, the president of the Jim & Tabitha Furyk Foundation, said that during the first five years of Furyk & Friends, the tournament has raised over $5 million for Northeast Florida charities. That will continue to be the mission at Hammock Beach, she said
“That's part of what we want to do when we come here. We want to help embrace the community and figure out ways that we can help,” Tabitha Furyk said.
Hauer said the pairing is advantageous because Hammock Beach is a charitable community.
“When you go to the Furyk & Friends website, you'll see firsthand in big bold letters, ‘building community on the course for charity.’ That is the mission for this event. And I'm 100 percent confident that our club membership will be right behind that,” he said.
The Jack Nicklaus signature-designed Ocean Course has six holes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, more than any other golf course in the state.
“We’re basically Florida's ocean golf course,” Hauer said.
Jim Furyk said he had never been to the resort until he and Tabitha visited last year, and he was struck by how beautiful it was.
“I had heard so much about it living in Jacksonville, which is just an hour away,” he said. “... Oh my goodness, staring at the beach, the event lawn, the golf course. Of course, I drifted over to 18 by myself to kind of take a look at the condition of the golf course. The paspalum fairways — spectacular. It looked like a carpet. It looked like you could have held a Tour event on it that day.”
Furyk said he played the course on Oct. 2, when the ocean breeze wasn’t as strong as it was during the press conference.
“Jack built a golf course that's somewhat wide and generous on the fairways. It needs to be in this wind,” he said. “But it's got some teeth on the greens, some undulation. You catch a little breeze, a little wind out here, and this place is going to provide a test for the players.”
The Furyks signed a five-year contract with Hammock Beach, but only the first two years are guaranteed.
We couldn't be more excited. I wish this thing was starting tomorrow actually.
— BRAD HAUER, Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa general manager
“We couldn't be more excited,” Hauer said. “I wish this thing was starting tomorrow actually, but we couldn't be more excited.”
Renfroe said the tournament operated with about 600 volunteers at Timuquana and will need "a few more" than that at Hammock Beach getting players and fans around the golf course.
“I don't think we'll have any issues in identifying those volunteers,” he said. “We mentioned how enthusiastic the membership was. If volunteers want to be involved, we want them to be involved with the tournament and we'll create opportunities for them to be here.”
As for attendance, Renfroe said that with the growth of Palm Coast there is a built-in audience right in the community with support from surrounding markets.
“I think getting to Palm Coast gets us access to a Daytona market, an Orlando market. We can pull from surrounding markets,” he said.
Jim Furyk said that when he and Tabitha first visited the resort, looking for a new home for their tournament, they knew they were in the right spot.
“Brad and his team feel like family,” he said. “We're excited for our opportunity and our next step.”
