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One of the great eye-openers to the sporting world of money, opulence and prestige is the US PGA tour. The epicentre of this is one of the most famous sporting events in the world – the US Masters – but just in case you haven’t got the relevant contacts to get tickets that are as rare as a Tiger Woods missed cut, a regular tour event ticket is much easier to come by. The PGA tour runs for most of the year and basically travels around the countryside, depending on what time of the year it is. In January, the tour is based in Hawaii, before heading over to California and other southern American states where the sun is still shining. By early March, the tour has swung over to Florida and Georgia before hitting Augusta for the first of the majors. It then slowly heads up north through the Carolinas and over to Texas before it is safe to base itself north through the summer months. It ends up in Florida and Georgia again in October when it starts to get a bit cooler. The tour finishes back up in California in December. As long as you investigate early enough, tickets are relatively easy to come by, especially on the tournament days of Thursday and Friday – most people other than yourself are still working on these days. Tickets are also sold for some of the preliminary stuff, like practice rounds and pro-ams, that precede the tournament hit-off on the Thursday. If
you are finding it difficult getting to a PGA event, you can also try the
newly titled Champions Tour (formerly the Seniors Tour), where you can see some famous old names still playing
like Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Hale Irwin. There is also the LPGA
tour, where tickets are quite easy to come by and you can catch a glimpse
of some of the top women players up close. Their season also lasts for
much of the year. Also
of interest to golf fans would be the Buy.com Tour – the secondary PGA
Tour for budding PGA Tour professionals. The Top 15 from the Buy.Com tour
gain entry to the main PGA tour the following year. The Buy.com has
expanded its horizons to include events in Australia and New Zealand, as
well as the regular US and Canadian stops in places that miss out on the
PGA, Senior PGA and LPGA events. |