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The PGA Tour’s West Virginia stop, A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier, isn’t just skipping this season because of COVID-19 rescheduling. Tournament organizers have canceled the remaining six years of its contract, which was to have run through 2026.
The tournament on the Old White TPC course in White Sulphur Springs, which began in 2010 as the Greenbrier Classic, had been scheduled for September and was to kick off the 2020-21 PGA Tour season. It was replaced on the PGA Tour’s revised schedule announced Thursday by the Safeway Open in California.
Tournament organizers said in a release that moving the event to the fall, which occurred in 2019 as the PGA Tour shuffled its schedule, did not work out for attendance and sponsors as well as when the event was played around the Fourth of July.
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“We are happy to reach a resolution with the PGA Tour that is mutually beneficial to both parties in this time of crisis,” Jill Justice, president of the Greenbrier, said in the release.
“We owe a supreme debt of gratitude to (West Virginia) Governor Jim Justice (owner of the Greenbrier) and his Greenbrier resort for a highly successful 10 years of partnership with the PGA Tour,” said Andy Pazder, executive vice president and COO for the PGA Tour. “Governor Justice’s vision and leadership helped shine a light on the men and women that serve our country through the military and first responder programs he implemented through the tournament, and the Greenbrier resort was an incredibly unique and world-class venue that our players will always remember and cherish.”
Winners of A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier
2010: Stuart Appleby
2011: Scott Stallings
2012: Ted Potter
2013: Jonas Blixt
2014: Angel Cabrera
2015: Danny Lee
2016: Canceled after a severe flood
2017: Xander Schauffele
2018: Kevin Na
2019: Joaquin Niemann
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