For a decade, the second week of September at Silverado has meant grandstands going up on the North Course, the smell of grill smoke drifting from the Fan Village, and roughly a hundred pros walking the Robert Trent Jones Jr. layout that Johnny Miller reworked before the tour arrived in 2014. That week is not happening in 2026. The PGA Tour released its FedExCup Fall schedule in January and Napa was not on it.
If you live inside the property, that changes the rhythm of your fall in a very concrete way. It also puts the two biggest resort investments of the past twelve months, a rebuilt spa and a new restaurant, into sharper focus. Both were planned during the tournament era. Both now anchor a September that has to stand on its own.
The week that is not happening
The Press Democrat reported on January 9 that the PGA Tour lost two events on its FedEx Cup Fall schedule, including Napa's Procore Championship at Silverado Resort, and added new tournaments in Asheville, North Carolina and Austin, Texas that replace Napa and the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi. Procore, which had signed a two-year deal in 2024, declined to renew.
The date on the calendar is not gone yet. Andy McDowell, the SPORTFIVE executive who has run the Napa event through three title sponsors, told local reporters that he is "hopeful" of finding a new title sponsor for an event at Silverado for the week of September 7–13. In the same conversation he noted that the historical Napa date range is still open on the tour schedule, and the tournament has always fallen two weeks before the Ryder Cup or the Presidents Cup, neither of which currently has a competing event on those dates. For residents that means an open week rather than a canceled week. The grandstands may not go up. The gates and the North Course itself are not going anywhere.
Context worth holding onto: Silverado has hosted top-tier tour golf on and off for almost sixty years. The property was home to the Kaiser International Open Invitational from 1968 to 1976, the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic through 1980, and the Transamerica and Napa Valley Championship on the PGA Tour Champions from 1989 to 2002. The current pause is unusual, not unprecedented.
Matchplay Kitchen + Bar, which opened into a different September than planned
The resort's newest restaurant was conceived when a September tournament crowd was still a given. It opened anyway, and it reads differently without the tournament week feeding it. Fodor's visited this summer and described Matchplay less as a hotel restaurant and more as Silverado's gathering place, where families celebrate, golfers stop in after a round, and hotel and conference guests end the night at the bar, with some ingredients pulled from the resort's Chef's Garden.
The menu is the work of Executive Chef Patrick Prager. The kitchen operates on a "100-mile" garden-to-table philosophy, with dishes like Wagyu Short Rib Burgers and Wild Mushroom Pappardelle, cocktails such as a Meyer Lemon Collins sourced from the Chef's Garden and a Pecan Old Fashioned, and a room designed as an upscale lounge with shuffleboard, darts, and fire pits. That programming, shuffleboard and darts alongside a chef-driven menu, is aimed squarely at the resort's residential membership and hotel guests rather than a tournament week overflow.
The older properties have not gone away. The Grill at Silverado still serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bar appetizers with a Wine Country menu, overlooks the course, and takes reservations on Tock or at 707-257-5400. The Mansion Lounge with its stone fireplace remains the resort's quieter cocktail room. And the property's oddest food tradition is intact: the Burgerdog, a course concession that arrived at Silverado in 1973 and is still a fixture at the North Course stands decades later.
The spa reopening reads differently now
The Spa and Longevity Center reopened on April 8, 2026 after a full renovation. On paper it was a spa refresh. In practice it is a longevity clinic wearing a spa's clothing, and the timing, with the tournament week gone and the fall calendar suddenly open, is either accidental or shrewd depending on who you ask.
Access is exclusive to resort guests, golf, and lifestyle members, and the space has been reimagined as a hub for longevity, recovery, and whole-body renewal that combines science-backed therapies with performance technology. The specifics matter, because they explain why residents are being invited to think about the property as a wellness destination rather than a golf destination:
- A new Recovery Lounge built for post-activity restoration, athletes, and stress-reset guests, with guided protocols for circulation, muscle fatigue relief, and nervous system regulation
- Therabody Sound Healing Lounger, compression boots, PEMF mat therapy, and Therabody Smart Goggles, described as technology rarely found outside major markets like Los Angeles
- HydraFacial services and red light therapy, with handheld red light devices for targeted use
- Skincare partnerships with Napa Valley Organics, True Botanicals, Napa Bloom, and Skin Authority
- A new Fitness Center with Technogym strength and cardio equipment, the Technogym Checkup assessment platform, and the OxeFit XS1 Smart Training System, both described as rare in Northern California
Alison Abbott, Director of Spa and Recreation at Silverado, framed the reopening as "a new era of well-being" that blends Napa Valley's restorative spirit with advanced recovery and longevity technologies. Whether that framing sticks depends on who walks through the doors this fall.
What a resident actually gets back
The trade-off is worth stating plainly.
| September in tournament years | September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Road closures around Atlas Peak, spectator parking flows, credential checks | Open perimeter, normal traffic |
| North Course closed for tournament setup and play | North Course available to members and resort guests |
| Concert nights, Fan Village, tented sponsor activations | Quieter grounds, restaurant and spa programming instead |
| Ten of twelve Ryder Cup players on property, per the 2025 field | A field of one, if you count yourself |
The 2025 Procore Championship drew ten of the twelve members of the American Ryder Cup team, with only Xander Schauffele skipping the trip. That level of field is unlikely to return quickly even if a new sponsor is announced. In the meantime, the North Course, a par 72 at 7,138 yards, originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and re-worked by Johnny Miller before the PGA Tour debuted at Silverado in 2014, is simply available.
The rhythm of the property this fall
Silverado is large enough that fall programming happens in pockets rather than at one central hub. The resort occupies 1,200 acres north of downtown Napa and is subdivided into distinct neighborhoods including Cottage Drive, The Grove, Mansion Estates, and Oak Creek East. Different corners of the property will feel the missing tournament week differently. Homes near the North Course clubhouse, which sit closest to the grandstand footprint, will have the most obviously different September. Homes on the far edges may barely notice.
A few things residents can plan around:
- Bocce, tennis, and pickleball instruction with the resort pros. Guests can book expert instruction for golf, yoga, and pickleball, and Fodor's took a bocce class taught by one of Silverado's tennis pros, which is a nice indication of how the pros are being cross-utilized without a tournament week in the way.
- The Chef's Garden cocktail program at Matchplay, which is genuinely seasonal and will read differently in September than in July.
- The Recovery Lounge and the Technogym Checkup assessment, both of which take real appointment slots and are worth booking early given how few comparable setups exist in the county.
- The Mansion Lounge patio for the last of the warm evenings.
If a new title sponsor materializes for 2027, the calendar will re-tighten around a September tournament week and the fall will look familiar again. If it does not, this September becomes the template. Either way, the property is spending 2026 making a case that Silverado works as a resort community first and a tournament host second.
For residents thinking about what any of this means for the home you already own here, or for anyone weighing a move into the community while the property is quietly resetting, Avi Strugo is available to talk through the specifics of the neighborhoods inside Silverado and how the fall shift is being received on the ground. Get in Touch With Avi.