NATIONWIDE U
TOUR,” says Skip Kendall, a
veteran of both the PGA TOUR and
Nationwide Tour. “People in the
Nationwide Tour cities generally
don’t have other pro sports. They
don’t see much professional golf.
They embrace an event and make
a festival out of it.”
The Nationwide Tour schedule
Nationwide Tour
The fifth fairway of the Cox
alumnus Lucas Glover
Classic presented by Chevrolet in
took a break in early May 2009 as
won the 2009 U.S. Open.
Omaha, Nebraska.
all eyes in pro golf turned to THE
million in 2010. The number of PLAYERS Championship. Calfee
players gaining exempt status on and the Nationwide Tour staff took
the PGA TOUR for the following advantage of the open date to bring
season has grown from five in the Nationwide Tour operations
1990 to 10, to 15, to 20 to its truck—recognizable by the Tour’s
current count of “The 25” who motto “PGA TOUR DRIVEN”
achieve the Tour’s ultimate goal. painted across the sides—to Ponte
Taking the math even further, two Vedra Beach, FL, and have it serve
out of every three PGA TOUR as the centerpiece to a Monday
members have Nationwide evening 20th year reunion of
Tour roots, thereby giving the Nationwide Tour alumni now on
Nationwide Tour the title of the PGA TOUR. Calfee manned
Nationwide Tour official Jim the official proving ground of the grill and turned out burgers,
Duncan remembers the days when the PGA TOUR. brats and pork chop sandwiches,
player dining consisted of hot as some 40 alumni players joined
dogs dispensed from a spinning Nationwide’s festival atmosphere the festivities.
grill. “You’d try to get one that Its bread-and-butter venues are
didn’t have a fly on it,” he says. He mid-sized cities such as Knoxville, Celebrating Nationwide’s
can remember splotchy fairways Boise, Wichita and Springfield— success
and very bumpy greens. each an original spot on the 1990 The 20 very successful years
“Obviously, I would like to say schedule. Individual Tour stops for the Nationwide Tour is also
that this Tour has grown by great develop their own personality and being marked by highlighting 20
leaps and bounds,” says Duncan, niche. Golfers love the crawfish of the Tour’s greatest moments
the Tour’s Vice President for dinner in Lafayette, LA, each (detailed on page 206). Bill Calfee
Rules and Competitions. “But I March. They relish the roars from comments: “It’s hard to imagine
think all of us involved still feel the 18th green in Omaha, where we’ve been around for 20 years. TOUR
like it’s an infant and can still up to 25,000 spectators watch It’s been fun to celebrate our
grow significantly.” within the amphitheater setting success and look back at some
ANFORD/PGA
ST
The Nationwide Tour runs 28 and a dozen corporate chalets. of the highlights that have given
CHRIS
BADZ,
tournaments in six countries “The 18th in Omaha is better us so much pleasure over two
AN
ST
©
and plays for approximately $18 than a lot of finishes on the PGA decades.” ■
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