PGA Tour announces the 2013-14 season’s early schedule - Disney goes out of roster
The PGA Tour officials have announced to change the traditional calendar season to a newly configured schedule, which will allow developing a bridge between two seasons.
According to the officials, the 2013 PGA Tour season will commence from the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in January. However, this will not be the case for the 2014 season.
As per the announcement, the new format will be the “2013-14 season”, including a six-tournament swing, to be held at the end of 2013. The Frys.com Open at the CordeValle Golf Club will kick off the 2013-14 season.
At the end of the sixth tournament, the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Mexico, there will be a two-month break, prior to the start of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in January, 2014.
The Chief of Operations for the PGA Tour, Andy Pazder, confirmed that the Frys.com Open will be staged from October 10 to 13, 2013.
The tour will then move to Las Vegas, where the PGA Tour professional will contend against each other at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, slated to start from October 17 to 20, 2013.
Thereafter, two events will be held on the Asian soil - The CIMB Classic and the World Golf Championships – HSBC Champions.
Pazder also confirmed that the CIMB Classic will become the official PGA Tour event for the first time and will be staged at the Mines Resort & Golf Club, from October 24 to 27, 2013.
Moreover, the HSBC Champions will also move back to its old venue, the Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai, China. The tournament will be held from November 1 to 4, 2013.
The winners of all the above-mentioned tournaments will then receive invitations to participate in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.
Afterwards, the PGA Tour will return to the United States, for the McGladrey Classic, slated to start from November 7 to 10, 2013.
The final event of the six-tournament series, the OHL Classic at Mayakoba, will be played from November 14 to 17, 2013.
In the meantime, the officials also confirmed that the PGA Tour will not return to Disney, for the first time since the inaugural edition of the Walt Disney World Open Invitational was won by Jack Nicklaus.
This year, the PGA Tour concluded at the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic, held at the Walt Disney World Resort.
After the tournament lost its title sponsor, the officials failed to bring any other sponsor for the 2013 edition of the event.
"It was a mutual decision between us and the Tour," said Tony Morreale, the Sports Public Relations Manager at Disney World. "Really over the years, our sports business and our golf business has changed a lot so that's kind of where it came from”.
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