The PGA TOUR announced that The Concession Golf Club has been awarded another big-time event. Due to logistical challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Golf Championship will not be played in Mexico this year. The 2021 event will be conducted February 25-28 in Bradenton, Florida at the Concession Golf Club, a Jack Nicklaus/Tony Jacklin [...]
Naples, Florida--Tournament host Greg Norman has announced the 24 players set to compete in the 2020 QBE Shootout, which will be played December 9-13 and celebrate its 20th year at the Troon managed Tiburon Golf Club at Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples. The contest will be held without spectators, but the action will be covered LIVE [...]
The PNC Championship(formerly the Father/Son Challenge) announced that Tiger Woods alongside his son, Charlie, will make their debut at the tournament played at the beautiful Ritz Carlton Golf Club Orlando, Grande Lakes from December 17-20, in the unique PGA TOUR event where 20 major winners compete as a team with a family member. Tiger Woods, owner [...]
Orlando, Fl.--PNC Financial Services Group Inc., IMG, and NBC Sports Group recently announced the former PNC Father/Son Challenge has been renamed the PNC Championship and will take place December 18-20 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Grande Lakes Orlando. In addition, PNC announced it has agreed to a multi-year title sponsorship renewal. The renaming of the tournament [...]
Greensboro, Georgia--Reynolds Lake Oconee, the award-winning resort community situated on 19,000-acre Lake Oconee located between Atlanta and Augusta, will host the LPGA Tour Drive On Championship at Reynolds Lake Oconee, October 22-25, 2020. The Reynolds community stepped in to host the world's best women golfers after the LPGA Tour was forced to change its fall schedule [...]
Florida's premier meeting and golf destination, the Mission Inn Resort & Club announced that it will host a new Symetra Tour event October 11-17, 2020. The magnificent Howey-in-the-Hills resort will be the site for the Mission Inn Resort and Club Championship presented by Insurance Office of America(IOA). "Working with the Mission Inn and Symetra Tour during [...]
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina – Harry Radley, of Indianapolis, Indiana, made a gross par on the first hole of a three-way, sudden death playoff to emerge victorious in the Flight Winners’ Playoff at the 37th Annual Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship on September 4 at Barefoot Resort’s Pete Dye Course. Radley, Doug Mrstik, of Sarasota, [...]
A Strange PGA Tour Season The 2019-2020 PGA Tour season will be remembered for a long time. The worldwide pandemic caused a disruption to our lives as well as the Tour’s schedule that hopefully will never be repeated. Besides the hiatus which resulted in just 36 tournaments being played rather than 46 as was done last [...]
A few random thoughts about the PGA Championship. The weather for the 102nd PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, which is sandwiched between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, was distinctly un-August like with the high for the week only 68 degrees. Puffer jackets and hoodies were more in evidence than short shorts and sandals. [...]
BOSTON, Mass – In partnership with the state of New York, the USGA has announced that due to ongoing health and safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic, the 120th U.S. Open Championship, scheduled Sept. 14-20 at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., will be conducted without spectators on-site. “Following months of consultation and scenario planning [...]
