The PGA Tour Champions is getting its personal crew competitors within the type of the World Champions Cup.
The inaugural three-way competitors between gamers from the U.S., Europe and the remainder of the world is slated for Dec. 7-10 on the Concession Golf Membership in Bradenton, Florida.
Jim Furyk, Darren Clarke of Northern Eire and Ernie Els of South Africa have been introduced because the preliminary crew captains again in 2021. The World Champions Cup was anticipated to debut in 2022 earlier than being pushed again to 2023.
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ABC and ESPN will air the competitors, which can pit groups of PGA Tour Champions gamers in a sequence of nine-hole crew and singles matches, in a format just like the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup for males’s golf and the Solheim Cup in girls’s golf.
The crew that earns probably the most factors after 24 complete matches will probably be declared the winner.
Furyk and Clarke have beforehand served as Ryder Cup captains for his or her respective groups. Els was the Worldwide crew’s captain for the 2019 Presidents Cup.
Charlie Besser, the CEO of sports activities advertising and marketing and occasions firm Intersport, was credited with bringing the thought to the tour 10 years in the past.
“The concept was actually to construct upon the joy of the Ryder Cup and of the Presidents Cup, to attempt to deliver everyone collectively, your entire world collectively in a single occasion, thus the three groups, an Worldwide Group, European crew and an American crew,” Besser advised PGATour.com.
“And everyone knows that the blokes who play PGA Tour Champions have gotten some severe outdated scores to settle with one another, and they’re excited to get again on the market and get after it.”
