From rivardinsa: Even if you don’t know a birdie from a bogey, you should care how the PGA Tour regards the Valero Texas Open.
Next season’s designated events will include the four majors, the Players, three FedEx Cup playoff events and eight other tournaments. Four shoo-ins as designated events are the Sentry Tournament of Champions, Genesis Invitational, the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial.
Critics of Saudi Arabia — and there are many — accuse the country’s ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, of “sportswashing,” using the country’s oil riches to fund lucrative professional sports events that distract the public from the country’s miserable human rights record and its treatment of women. Men’s and women’s golf, Formula One racing and now, even soccer, all are awash in Saudi money.
In response, Monahan and the PGA Tour have revised the tour schedule to allow its top players to play fewer events for enhanced purses, but in the process, those tournaments not on the designated event list face the challenge of maintaining fan bases and sponsors while featuring fields that lack star power.
Professional golf’s season is measured by the four major tournaments: the Masters, the PGA Championship in May, the U.S. Open in June and the British Open in July. The Valero Texas Open is staged one week before the Masters, withIn an ideal world, the Valero Texas Open would have been moved back one week and become a designated event two weeks before the Masters. Instead, the Cadence Bank Houston Openthe spot.
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