The PGA Tour is in the First State this week.
Wilmington Country Club will be the venue. This is the first event of the PGA Tour in Delaware, and the 10th time that the BMW Championship has been held at a different venue since 2007.
“You have to hit it as far and as often as possible,” said Patrick Cantlay, BMW’s defending champion and FedEx Cup champion.
Delaware is now the 41st state to host a Tour event. However, there are still nine states who are hoping for their turn.
Maine is one of nine states that has never hosted a Tour event. Northeast New England has not hosted a professional golf event, as have five other states in the Mountain Time Zone or Alaska. Some states were barely able to make the list. Nebraska was saved by the 1933 Nebraska Open. Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene hosted in 1992 the Merrill Lynch Shootout. Arkansas, however, made headlines with its Arlington Hotel Open between 1955 and 1963.
Some of these states have hosted LPGA Champions, Nationwide and Champions events. But the locals wait patiently for Rory and Tiger to visit their shores.
Here is a list of golf courses that could host stars of the PGA Tour one day. (Special thanks go to Peter Kollmann, a long-time Golfweek reader who also served as a journalist and helped with research.
By: Adam Schupak
Title: These nine states have never hosted a PGA Tour event
Sourced From: golfweek.usatoday.com/lists/nine-states-never-hosted-pga-tour-event/
Published Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:56:58 +0000
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