Presidents Cup pushed back
Dates for the 2007 Presidents Cup in Montreal, Canada will be pushed back one week, delaying the event from the originally planned September 20-23 to September 27-30.
The seventh edition of the biennial team matchplay competition between holders United States and an International squad of non-European players will be contested at Royal Montreal Golf Club.
The move comes following last week’s release of plans to alter the US PGA Tour schedule format starting in 2007 to create more interest in the season-ending Tour Championship with an eye to boosting US television ratings.
A four-event late-season series will conclude with the Tour Championship on September 13-16 and PGA officials did not want the Presidents Cup to be scheduled for the following week.
“This move will help ensure the worlds best players have an extra week to prepare for the 2007 Presidents Cup,” said US PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem. “We felt the competitors could use an extra week to rest and be fully prepared for The Presidents Cup.”
US players have won four times and drawn another in the first six Presidents Cup events, the lone US loss coming at Melbourne, Australia, in 1998. The draw came in 2003 at South Africa. Montreal will be the third non-US site to host.
