BRISBANE, Australia - the Australia Open above November Presidents Cup, a decision that could put Australian Masters - a Tiger Woods in the past two years event played - in front of the star American own California tournament.
PGA Australia, announced Sunday that open, probably will be held on a course in the region of Sydney, 10-13 November will take place. The Australian PGA in Coolum will be played 24-27 November, a week after the Presidents between the United States and an international team of Royal Melbourne Cup.
PGA also said that Australian Masters was scheduled for December 1-4, but it was still to be confirmed. Woods, Australian winner of the Masters in 2009, said that he preferred to see it played in the week preceding the Presidents Cup.
The masters is scheduled to be played on another course of sandbelt near Royal Melbourne Kingston Heath, and which would have given Woods and other actors of the Presidents Cup an ideal preparation for the test team.
IMG, Woods handles, also runs the Australian Masters and had hoped for at the main location for Presidents to stimulate cutting field. The Australia Open in Sydney have now this chance, even if the more likely of rivers, lakes, not so much in common with the Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath.
"We want this date." "It is crucial for us," said Mark Steinberg, head of global golf IMG Division in November to masters.
"We believe that we have taken the risk moving on that date, a few years ago is going against some great events, and we created successfully." We believe that we deserve to keep the date, now that it is a highly coveted date for next year. »
Woods received a fee of 3 million appearance - half paid by Government Victoria – but in its first year, a government study has shown the economic rate of return was over $ 30 million.
Max Garske, Chief Executive of the PGA of Australia said Sunday that the decision "was created in the best interest of the Australian golf course and the PGA Tour the Australia."
"There are a number of factors that must be carefully examined in the finalization of 2011, including the time where a number of international events, the availability of specific locations as well as national calendar serving better public planning Australian golf," said Garske.
"With a main focus of the golf world also firmly on Melbourne come November 2011, is a viewpoint that the Presidents Cup will offer a number of advantages for the events of autumn on both sides. With these factors in mind we believed that we took the decision in the interest of the game. »
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