The Las Vegas prevent at the PGA Excursion faces an unsure outlook after Shriners withdrew as identify sponsor, the Las Vegas Assessment-Magazine reported on Thursday.
This 12 months’s Shriners Youngsters’s Open concluded on Sunday with J.T. Poston incomes a one-shot win over Doug Ghim.
Bob Curler, the vp of sports activities for Shriners, mentioned, in keeping with the Assessment-Magazine, “Now we have loved an amazing 18 years because the host and identify sponsor of the Shriners Youngsters’s Open. The chance to inform our implausible tales of the greater than 1.6 million youngsters that experience gained care from Shriners was once, and at all times is, our number one function.”
Consistent with the record, the PGA Excursion has introduced most effective the primary portion of the 2025 agenda, in the course of the playoffs, no longer the Fall Sequence, which has integrated Las Vegas.
It is unclear whether or not the development would continue and not using a identify sponsor. Seven PGA Excursion occasions had new identify sponsors in 2024, in step with the Assessment-Magazine.
The match started in 1983 as a five-round match referred to as the Panasonic Las Vegas Professional-Superstar Vintage, and Fuzzy Zoeller was once the winner at Las Vegas Nation Membership. The following 12 months, with the identify modified to the Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational, Zimbabwe’s Denis Watson was once the champion as the development become the primary in PGA Excursion historical past to supply a $1 million prize pool.
The development was once lower to 72 holes beginning in 2004.
Different winners have integrated Australia’s Greg Norman (1986), Paul Azinger (1987), Davis Love III (1993) and Tiger Woods (1996). Jim Furyk (1995, 1998, 1999) is the one three-time champion, whilst Kevin Na (2011, 2019), Scotland’s Martin Laird (2009, 2020) and South Korea’s Tom Kim (2022, 2023) are two-time winners.
The development has been performed at more than one Las Vegas classes, with TPC Summerlin serving as the present host.
–Box Degree Media
