The PGA tournament begins May 16th at Louisville's Valhalla Golf Club.

But preparations have been underway for months, even years.

On this week's Inside Louisville, Kelsey Starks takes us inside Valhalla.

Ryan Ogle is the PGA Championship director.

So much goes into planning an event like this.

How far out do you all start planning?

It's crazy to think it's been about a 30 month process of actual planning.

We committed to come back to Louisville in 2017, so it's kind of started then.

But really about two and a half, three years ago is when we started in earnest to figure out what we're going to do and how we're going to make this the best championship yet.

So what makes Louisville and Valhalla attractive to the PGA?

What keeps them coming back?

Yeah, we have a storied history here.

I mean, there's probably maybe one or two other courses that we have, the history we have in the hall dating all the way back to 1996 and our first PGA Championship here.

2024 will be the fourth PGA Championship and the seventh large spectator event.

So we have a ton of experience overall.

We have a ton of great relationships.

But what keeps guys coming back is first and foremost, it's a championship course.

It tests the best players in the world.

It can hold our infrastructure of our championship.

But I say most importantly, the community comes out, supports it every time they make it extremely easy to operate a major, large spectator event.

And we're thrilled with the response we get every time.

So it checks a lot of the boxes.

You could say it checks all the boxes of a perfect host site.

That's great to hear for us in Louisville.

But it goes the other way, too.

Let's talk about the economic impact of an event like this on the city.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, we pride ourselves in putting on a tremendous event that not only has a great impact that week, but has a long lasting positive impact on our communities.

We expect over 200,000 people to come through the gates and attend the championship.

When you look at the economic impact of people staying in hotels, going to restaurants, we exceed annually over $100 million, most recently in 2023.

In Rochester, New York, the Chamber of Rochester recorded $192 million economic impact for the event.

So we're excited to do that again here in Louisville.

And then you take in the exposure from our broadcast being shown to a half a billion households across the world.

The value in that media exposure exceeds $100 million.

So it's not only the direct spending that's happening in the community, it's putting Kentucky, it's putting Louisville on a global map and all the exposure it gets as a great place to live, work and play.

And it's beautiful.

This week on Inside Louisville, you'll learn the history of Kentucky's number one golf course and meet the newest owners of the club.

Go inside Valhalla golf course Sunday at 12 noon, 11 a.m. Central with Kelsey Starks right here on Katie.