PGA Tour heads to Mexico and so should you
If you follow professional golf, you have likely heard about the all-new system the PGA Tour is rolling out to make its season more of, well a season, following in the footsteps of NASCAR’s Chase for the Cup. When the 2007 tour tees off with the Mercedes Championship in Hawaii, players will be accumulating points towards the FedExCup, a scheme that promises to get the top players skipping fewer events and out on the fairways more (though the very top players like Tiger and Phil Mickelson will likely continue to do whatever makes them happy). To get a handle on the complicated new PGA Tour format, check out www.pgatour.com/fedexcup/overview.
One of the goals is to get stronger fields and bigger names, especially at non-marquee events, and one of the first places to put this to the test will be the all new Mayakoba Golf Classic, the first regular season PGA Tour event ever held in Mexico. The event is being produced by Greg Norman, and is held on his new and very nice El Cameleon course at the Mayakoba resort in Playa del Carmen, near Cancun, February 19-25. Tickets just went on sale Monday, and Major winners like Mark Calcavecchia, Jeff Sluman and Steve Elkington have already signed up. Even Norman, winner of more than 90 tournaments and two Majors, is playing, despite being mostly retired.
The event won’t get all the top golfers, since the 64-man World Golf Championship Accenture Match Play Championship is being contested the same weekend in Tucson, Ariz., but Mayakoba is a more fun and less expensive vacation spot than Tucson, and the new system should bring out a good crowd for the inaugural $3.5 million event. Full event tickets, good Wednesday to Sunday, are $100, and daily tickets are $30.
Next the PGA hopes to hit a home run on the beautiful championship course that is being built in Puerto Cancun and this would be the first ever PGA in Cancun´s hstory.
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