PGA Tour Has Its Own Fansite Now at PGAtourforum.com
(PRWEB) June 1, 2006
The PGA Tour is an organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA that operates the USA’s main professional golf tours for men. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR.”
The PGA Tour should be distinguished from a number of other golf organizations. Since 1968, it has been completely separate from the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (“PGA of America”), which is now primarily an association of club professionals. (Prior to 1968, it was the PGA of America’s Tournament Players Division.) The PGA of America, not the PGA Tour, runs the PGA Championship and the Senior PGA Championship and co-organizes the Ryder Cup with the PGA European Tour. The PGA Tour does not run the women’s tours in the United States, which are controlled by the independent LPGA. The governing body of golf in the United States is the United States Golf Association.
In January 2006 the PGA Tour announced a new set of television deals covering 2007 to 2012. CBS Sports will remain the main carrier of PGA Tour golf, and will increase its events from 16 to 19 per season. NBC Sports will increase its coverage from 5 to 10 events. The Golf Channel will be the Tour’s cable partner on a 15 year contract, providing early round coverage of all official money events and four round coverage of a few events at the beginning and towards the end of the season. These deals do not cover the major championships as the PGA Tour does not own the rights to them. The fees involved were not mentioned in the press release, but it stated, “total prize money and other financial benefits to players will increase approximately $ 600 million over the term as compared to the previous six years, a 35-percent increase”.
The PGA Tour is also covered extensively outside the United States. In the United Kingdom Sky Sports is the main broadcaster of the tour.
With a lot of fans looking for an outlet for PGA Tour, a new site is established for PGA Tour at pgatourforum.com. It has forums, blogs, news and chat.
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