The PGA Tour is back in the Philadelphia area this week at Aronimink. For the second and final year, the AT&T, is being played here because the usual course, Congressional Country Club near Washington, D.C., was preparing for and hosting the U.S. Open.
As many golf fans know, the Philly area went without PGA Tour golf for decades. Remember the old IVB Golf Classic at Whitemarsh? They stopped playing that event because the 1981 Open was held at Merion, and they didn’t think it was a good idea to have 2 events in the same region in the same year. We lost our spot on the schedule, and didn’t get it back.
There was a brief return near the beginning of the century, but the tournament , the Pennsylvania Classic, rotated between eastern and western PA.
Last year, our region proudly and successfully supported this tournament, and I hope we do it again. It would be great to give Tour officials plenty of reason to schedule a more permanent event here.
I checked pgatour.com for a listing of the field. There are a lot of great players here this week. There are some big names missing of course, but there is still a field crammed with wonderful players. Just to name a few who will be here: Jim Furyk, former U.S. Open winner and area native, former British Open winner Justin Leonard, Stuart Appleby, Robert Allenby, former Masters champ Mike Weir, and former No. 1 in the world Vijay Singh.
Check the tournament web site for more information:
http://web.tigerwoodsfoundation.org/events/attNational/index
I hope to see you at Aronimink.
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