Friday, October 23, 2009

The Nationwide Tour adds the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open to 2010 schedule.

Next season the Nationwide Tour will add the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open to their schedule for 2010 and will be played in October on the Dye's Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass.

PGA commissioner Tim Finchem said, "We are excited to welcome Winn-Dixie to the PGA TOUR family and to work with Peter Lynch and his team to build a community event that showcases the next generation of PGA TOUR stars and the TPC Sawgrass Dye's Valley course," and "We view the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open as a strong complement to THE PLAYERS Championship."

13-time PGA winner and former Nationwide Tour member Jim Furyk stated, "This is great news that the Nationwide Tour will be playing at the home of the PGA TOUR next year and Jacksonville-based Winn- Dixie will be the title sponsor". "I've seen the phenomenal growth of this Tour first-hand, originally as a Nationwide Tour member in 1993, and over the last 16 years, competing on the PGA TOUR." Furyk said.

The Dye's Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass is the sister venue to the Stadium Course and was designed by Pete Dye and Bobby Weed, with Jerry Pate as the player consultant and opened in 1987. The par-72 course features water hazards on every hole and stretches 6,864 yards.

If you can not make it to the event in person you can catch it on the Golf Channel to see who will claim the number one spot to take home $108,000 with a total purse of $600,000.


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