World Golf Championships Now Concentrated In World's Center

That new WGC event in China is no longer a WGC...

That means all the WGC events this year will be played in the United States — the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona next month, the CA Championship at Doral in Miami and the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone in Akron, Ohio.

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem and European tour chief George O'Grady said last fall that Mission Hills would host the World Cup for two years, then get a World Golf Championship the following 10 years.

It was not immediately clear how the announcement Monday affects those plans.

Oh I think it's pretty clear!

Comments

[MAC]

seems to me to be classic, behind-the-scenes work to help ensure the success of the fedex - at least in the first year

[Jeff]

Tiger must have roared about that one becoming a WGC, what about my appearance fee money Tim?

[WayneK]

Explain to me again how these are "World" championships when they all take place in one country, a country that only has produced 3 of the top 16 golfers in the world?

[Scott]

Wayyyne K???? It's all about the BRAND STRATEGY (BS), I mean MARKETING....

[JohnV]

It is the Golden Rule.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

Tim Finchem has the gold.

[Bob]

Europe, the land of bad hotels, lousy transport and low purses. The US may have birthed 3 of the 16 top golfers in the world, but most of the rest have adopted the country by choice.


Vijay Singh--theres a guy who plays in Europe a lot.

Adam Scott, Geoff Ogilvy, Trevor Immelman, Sergio--playing here a lot more than Europe

Luke Donald--chose freezing in Chicago at Northwestern over the R and A's bursary scheme.

Who is left...who cares?


The WGC goes where the sponsors want it to go, not where Tim F or anybody else wants. When the rest of the world can kick in the cash...the rest of the world can have a WGC.