Cleveland Clinic and PGA TOUR partnership through 2032 expands medical services and a traveling player performance model
A long-term agreement centered on year-round care
Cleveland Clinic and the PGA TOUR have launched a long-term partnership that names the Cleveland-based health system the Official Healthcare Provider of the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions. The agreement runs through 2032 and is structured around providing players with coordinated medical and performance support across the TOUR’s global schedule.
The partnership’s scope extends beyond event-week medical coverage. Cleveland Clinic will also serve as the TOUR’s performance partner, integrating clinicians and performance experts into the PGA TOUR’s Player Performance Center program beginning this season.
How care will be delivered on the road
The PGA TOUR’s Player Performance Center is a mobile infrastructure that travels to more than 60 events annually across the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions, covering more than 24,000 miles. The current format includes mobile fitness and therapy centers that were substantially updated in 2019 and expanded to nearly 1,000 square feet per unit, along with a separate 900-square-foot recovery center available to members.
Under the new agreement, Cleveland Clinic personnel will be embedded within this system, with the stated goal of creating consistent access to essential medical services across tournament stops, while also supporting performance, recovery and long-term health planning.
Clinical focus areas tailored to golf’s demands
The partnership is framed around medical specialties frequently relevant to professional golfers’ workload and injury patterns, including orthopaedics and sports medicine, cardiology, neurology, dermatology and performance science. Cleveland Clinic’s sports medicine model emphasizes injury prevention, diagnosis, rehabilitation and performance optimization through multidisciplinary care teams.
For the TOUR, the operational challenge is continuity: players compete weekly across regions and climates, often managing chronic conditions, acute injuries, and travel-related fatigue. The partnership is designed to connect on-site services at events with off-site support and longer-term care strategies.
- On-site clinical and performance support integrated into the traveling Player Performance Center
- Access to specialty expertise aligned with musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, neurological and dermatologic needs
- Use of research and data-driven approaches intended to support sustained performance and longevity
A future hub in downtown Cleveland
The PGA TOUR partnership will also draw on capabilities planned for the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center, a 210,000-square-foot facility scheduled to open in 2027 in downtown Cleveland along the Cuyahoga Riverfront. The center is being developed as a combined training and clinical environment intended to serve both elite athletes and the general public, with specialties spanning orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, nutrition, psychology and genetics.
The partnership is positioned as a long-term investment in standardized care pathways for players competing across a dispersed schedule, while linking tournament-week services with a broader performance-medicine platform that is expected to expand when the Cleveland facility opens in 2027.
With the agreement set to run through 2032, the partnership establishes a multi-season framework for integrating clinical care, recovery resources and performance support into the TOUR’s traveling infrastructure, while anchoring future capability in a major new Cleveland-based performance and research center.