Louisville's Valhalla Golf course hosts the PGA Championship this week.

It's the fourth time the club has hosted the championship.

It was the dream of the founder, Dwight game, who built the golf course back in the early eighties.

Now it's the number one golf course in Kentucky.

It was obviously a dream come true.

It started on a rainy day.

And when my older brother and dad were over our place of business in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and I got a call that night and they say, hey, you know what?

Not sitting here talking about how about a golf course out there?

And I said, Well, why not?

So that's kind of when it all started, the dream started.

And that dream continues today.

Nearly a decade since that interview first aired on Petty's Kentucky Life.

When Gordie Game recalled when his late father Dwight first came up with the idea for Valhalla golf course, the course opened in 1986.

General manager Keith Reese came on board shortly after.

When I started in 89 as an assistant golf professional, I really had no idea that, you know, I'd be so blessed to be here 30 plus years and see everything that's gone on here.

It's been truly amazing.

Dwight game was such a just such a kind and compassionate man.

Played golf every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at noon.

And then his three sons, Walt, Gordie and phil, just all fantastic people and the vision that they had.

It's not often that someone can have a vision like that and then have that and dreams and have those dreams come true like they have here.

The dream was to build a state of the art golf course on nearly 500 acres of rolling terrain about 20 miles east of downtown Louisville.

Gordie game and his three sons commissioned golf legend jack nicklaus to design the course.

The goal was to have a championship golf course that could host a world class championship event like the pga championship and ryder cup.

Both have happened since.

And I think the city is so blessed that they decided to build Bahala and make it into what it is today.

They definitely set the groundwork for everything that's happening now.

The PGA of America purchased portions of Valhalla in the nineties and eventually took full ownership in 2000.

During that time, Valhalla has hosted some of golf's most memorable championships.

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We've been so fortunate to have just fantastic finishes to our events and some fantastic champions.

I think really when I think about it, the 2000 PGA Championship I think will always be one of those memorable times because you've got Tiger Woods and it was the major of the millennium.

So it was, you know, Pebble Beach, St Andrew's, Augusta, and Valhalla was in that mix.

But just just the thrill of the finish there, the play off that that really goes down in my mind as one of the greatest championships of all time.

Last year, a group of longtime club members purchased the club from the PGA and are ready to begin Valhalla's next chapter.

We refer to this kind of period that we're in now as Chapter three, Chapter one being the game family who founded the club, and then chapter two with the PGA of America owning the club for 20 years.

And now chapter three with Mr. Curt Stauffer, Novak, Junior, Junior Bridgeman and Chess Muscle.

What a wonderful group.

This this is an exciting time for us, for sure.

Think of my dad and brother and brother, too.

And it's just.

Just a keepsake.

It's a dream that has come true.

And as keeps getting better.

And that's what's really, really important.

The PGA Championship runs this Wednesday through Sunday.

You can learn more about the hall, a golf course, and meet the new owners on inside Louisville.

You can stream it now on Ket, dawg.