The WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play 2023 will be the last to be played from March 22 to 26 in Austin (Texas). The only tournament in this game formula will indeed disappear from the 2024 calendar. And no date for a possible return has yet been set.
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Is this the end of an era? In any case, the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is living its last days. Jordan Uppleger, Vice President and Director of Championship Management on the PGA Tour, confirmed Monday in Austin, Texas that the tournament will no longer be on the schedule in 2024.
“For an event to be successful, you need to display three main points,” Uppleger explained. You must have an active title sponsor, a venue (namely the Austin Country Club) involved, and relevant customers. WGC-Match Play has somehow exceeded all of those expectations as we have been here (in Austin) since 2016…”
But obviously, that’s not enough. Or not enough. This is all the more true since no Match Play tournament is scheduled in the PGA Tour 2024 calendar. Generally positioned at the end of March, it should be “replaced” on the same date next year. by the Cadence Bank Houston Open. Even if another niche could be chosen. We thus evoke the end of April, the beginning of May…
One thing is certain, it is a blow for lovers of this game format, so popular with professional golfers, obviously similar in spirit to the mythical Ryder Cup.
Jordan Uppleger, however, has not completely closed the door on a possible return of such a tournament in the future. Until recently, this World Championship was nevertheless considered one of the most important tournaments of the season, behind the four Major tournaments and the Players Championship. Times have apparently changed…
“If in the near future we have possibilities of returning to Austin, we will obviously study the question very seriously, concludes Uppleger. What is happening today (with the WGC-Match Play), we have already encountered it throughout our history. For some reasons, we had to leave some markets…”
Not sure that golf fans share the opinion of the PGA Tour authorities, just a few days after the disclosure of the reforms made by the PGA Tour on the 2024 calendar…
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