The PGA Tour Left Montreux in 2020. This Summer It Left Golf Entirely.

Drive past the 18th green this week and you won't find a television tower, a leaderboard, or a single corporate hospitality tent. You haven't found any of that inside these gates since 2019, and if you've lived here since before then, you already know why. What you might not know is that the tournament that used to define Montreux's public image from the outside doesn't exist anywhere right now, for the first time since 1999.

That's not a small detail. It's the whole story, and most of what gets written about this neighborhood hasn't caught up to it.

The Vote Nobody Talks About

Here's the part that tends to surprise people, even longtime residents: Montreux didn't lose the tournament. Montreux's own members voted against continuing to host it after the 2019 event, which is what forced the PGA Tour to relocate what was by then called the Reno-Tahoe Open to Old Greenwood at Tahoe Mountain Club in Truckee starting in 2020.

That's a different story than "the Tour moved on." A member-owned club looked at what a week of PGA Tour production does to a golf course and a gated community, weighed it against 20 years of hosting, and chose to stop. The course didn't get demoted. The membership opted out.

Barracuda Networks, the Silicon Valley security company that had been the title sponsor since 2014, followed the tournament to Truckee and kept its name on it through the 2025 event. But the sponsorship wasn't renewed for 2026, and when the PGA Tour released its 2026 schedule in August 2025, the Barracuda Championship wasn't on it. Tournament director Chris Hoff told Nevada Sports Net at the time that missing the schedule release wasn't a surprise internally, even as he kept working the phones for a new sponsor.

That search didn't land. In July 2026, Nevada Sports Net confirmed what a lot of Reno golf watchers had quietly suspected: there was no Barracuda Championship that week, for the first time since the tournament began in 1999.

Here's the timeline, condensed:

Twenty years at Montreux. Six more in Truckee. Then nothing.

What the Club Chose Instead

If the trade-off had been "PGA Tour prestige for a quieter neighborhood," that would be a straightforward story. What actually happened is more interesting, because the club didn't just step back from hosting. It reinvested in what a member actually experiences on a Tuesday afternoon instead of what a television audience sees for one week a year.

The 34,000-square-foot clubhouse at 18077 Bordeaux Drive has been substantially remodeled with a mountain-modern interior layered over its original French-manor exterior. It now holds three separate dining environments, a 19th Hole bar and lounge, an HD golf simulator room, a wine cellar, and outdoor bocce courts with grill service overlooking the 18th green. The fitness center got new equipment throughout. None of that requires a television tower or a corporate hospitality tent to justify its existence. It's built for the people who live here, not for a broadcast window.

The golf course itself hasn't changed in the ways that matter. The Nicklaus-designed layout still runs through the same "Bear Trap" stretch at holes 6 through 8, still climbs to that 138-foot elevated tee on 17, still plays across the same lakes and Sierra granite that made Jack Nicklaus call it one of his top designs. One golf-travel writer covering the Barracuda years described the gated community around it as "modern, classy and chic," and that description has aged better than the tournament did. The course was never really about the tournament. The tournament was a guest.

The Mismatch You'll Still Find Online

Search Montreux and you'll still find plenty of copy calling it "home of the Barracuda Championship," present tense, as if the tournament is still teeing off here every July. Some of it is old real estate collateral that never got updated. Some of it is golf directories that haven't been refreshed since the course last hosted a PGA Tour field in 2019. It's an easy thing to leave unedited, since nothing about the course or the clubhouse looks any different from the street.

But if you live behind these gates, the gap between that copy and what actually happens here in August is worth noticing. This neighborhood's identity was never really built on a week of nationally televised golf. It was built on 726 acres of Sierra forest, a Jack Nicklaus course design, and a level of quiet that a PGA Tour production crew is, by definition, not compatible with. The members who voted in 2019 understood that trade before most outside observers did. The rest of the golf world is only catching up to it now that the tournament has nowhere left to go.

Why This Is the Real Story

There's a version of this piece that treats the Barracuda Championship's disappearance as a loss, something Montreux used to have and doesn't anymore. That's not quite right. The club made an active choice in 2019, before the sponsorship even wobbled, before the schedule cuts, before any of it became a five-alarm story in golf media. Montreux members decided the tournament wasn't worth what it cost the neighborhood, years before the tournament itself ran out of runway everywhere else.

That's a different kind of neighborhood story than "the PGA Tour left us." It's closer to "we knew what we wanted before anyone else did." The clubhouse renovation, the shift toward member amenities over spectator infrastructure, the quiet week in July where nothing happens on the 18th hole except regular member play, all of it traces back to a decision the neighborhood made about itself rather than something that happened to it.

If you've been telling people you live in "the community that hosts the PGA Tour event," it might be worth updating the sentence. What you actually live in is the community that decided it didn't need to.

If you're weighing a move inside the gates at Montreux, or you already live here and want to talk through what a story like this means for how the neighborhood is perceived by buyers coming from outside it, Reno Tahoe Luxury Properties knows this community from the ground up. Reach out to Sonja Leonard for a conversation grounded in what's actually happening here, not what an old golf directory still says.