Firestone moves to Champions Tour

[HJJ003]

http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/23132935/firestone-switching-pga-bridgestone-invitational-champions-tour-major-2019

Thought this was interesting. More information to be released at some point today. 

[iacas]

Yup. And the WGC is moving to Memphis.

[onthehunt526]

1 hour ago, iacas said:

Yup. And the WGC is moving to Memphis.

Now we have a hole in the schedule the week before the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach... WGC-FedEx will probably keep an August date. 

What are we going to do move the Wyndham to June? So the WGC-FedEx Championship/Barracuda are the final two tourneys before the FedEx Cup playoffs?

Or do you move the Canadian Open to June? (Shane you then have a hole in July). 

One way or another some tourney needs to move. At this rate, they'll probably move Barracuda to June, make it a full point event.... And call it good. 

This is only tangiently related... I've heard Deutsche Bank might get axed from the playoffs. The playoffs may go to three events. 

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Back on topic, it's great the PGA Tour Champions are getting the chance to play courses they used to play while they were kicking butt on the Regular Tour in their primes. En-Joie (old B.C. Open) was first, then Warwick Hills(old Buick Open), now Firestone(World Series of Golf for the slightly older guys on the PGA Tour Champions, WGC for the younger guys). 

It's great for them to get to kick ads on their old playgrounds. Playing pretty much the same courses they did in their primes. I highly doubt they'll make the guys on the Champions Tour play some of the holes at the lengths they are for the WGC. The 16th will probably revert to 625 yards, the 8th and 9th will probably go back to WSOG yardages. But man, these guys got to be licking their chops.

[HJJ003]

7 hours ago, onthehunt526 said:

This is only tangiently related... I've heard Deutsche Bank might get axed from the playoffs. The playoffs may go to three events. 

Please let this happen. Love the playoffs but this needs to happen IMO. 

Back on topic: Do you guys feel that TPC Southwind will be a good venue for this switch to Memphis. Is it really a WGC caliber course?

[onthehunt526]

2 hours ago, HJJ003 said:

Please let this happen. Love the playoffs but this needs to happen IMO. 

Back on topic: Do you guys feel that TPC Southwind will be a good venue for this switch to Memphis. Is it really a WGC caliber course?

It could be. But not 100% committed that it is now. It has the potential to be, but in my opinion, it's kind of boring.

[HJJ003]

3 hours ago, onthehunt526 said:

It could be. But not 100% committed that it is now. It has the potential to be, but in my opinion, it's kind of boring.

These are my thoughts exactly.