PGA Tour unveils schedule for 2013- 2014 season, with 45 official events

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The PGA Tour announced its full schedule for the 2013-2014 season on Monday, a slate that spreads over two calendar years for the first time in its history.

The new 2013-2014 season, with 45 FedExCup events, opens with the Frys.com Open in San Martin, Calif. On Oct. 10-13 and culminates Sept. 11-14, 2014, with the Tour Championship, which remains the fourth and final FedExCup Playoff event.

“We have an exceptionally strong schedule as we transition to the new season structure,” said Andy Pazder, Chief of Operations for the PGA Tour. “The season has a solid and interesting start with three domestic and three international tournaments, providing players with a great opportunity to get a jump in the FedExCup standings. The schedule then resumes in January with the traditional swing through Hawaii before moving to the West Coast. We are very pleased with the flow and stability of the new schedule.”

As previously announced, the season’s first six tournaments offer full FedExCup points for 2013-14. In addition to the Frys.com Open, those are the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas (Oct. 17-20); the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Oct. 24-27), which becomes an official PGA Tour event for the first time; the WGC- HSBC Champions in Shanghai, China (Oct. 31-Nov. 3), which also becomes an official event; The McGladrey Classic at Sea Island, Ga. (Nov. 7-10); and the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Mexico (Nov. 14-17). 

The McGladrey has increased its purse by $1.4 million to $5.5 million, and the OHL Classic has raised its purse to $6 million from $3.7 million after moving to its own date. All six will be televised exclusively on Golf Channel in the United States.

The season then breaks for approximately six weeks, through December. Several unofficial tournaments are held during that span, including the biennial World Cup of Golf at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia (Nov. 21-24).

The schedule resumes in January with the traditional two-week swing through Hawaii – the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Maui, which concludes on Monday, Jan. 6, and the Sony Open in Hawaii in Honolulu (Jan. 9-12) – before starting a six-week stretch on the West Coast with the Humana Challenge in La Quinta, Calif. (Jan. 16-19). Golf Channel maintains exclusive four-round coverage before CBS Sports begins five straight weeks of weekend coverage beginning with the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego (Jan. 23-26). Golf Channel maintains early-round coverage through most of the remaining schedule, except for the major championships.

The West Coast schedule concludes with the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Ariz. (Feb. 19-23) on CBS, followed by six straight weeks of weekend television coverage by NBC Sports, which carries through Florida before moving to the Valero Texas Open and Shell Houston Open. New to the Florida Swing is Valspar as title sponsor of the Tampa Bay area’s tournament, now known as the Valspar Championship (March 13-16).

The tour remains in the Southeast and returns to Texas over the next seven weeks, beginning with the Masters (April 10-13) and ending with the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in Fort Worth (May 22-25). CBS continues weekend coverage through most of this stretch, save for NBC’s coverage of The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (May 8-11).

Another seven-week block continues primarily through the Midwest and Northeast, starting with the Memorial Tournament in Columbus, Ohio (May 29-June 1), and through the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Ill. (July 10-13). CBS will have weekend coverage of six of these, with the exception being NBC’s coverage of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina (June 12-15).

Following the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool (July 17-20), the PGA Tour begins the final four-week push to the FedExCup Playoffs, beginning with the RBC Canadian Open (July 24-27), which will be held at The Royal Montreal Golf Club, home of the 2007 Presidents Cup. The next week features both the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, and Reno-Tahoe Open, followed by the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. (Aug. 7-10), and then the Wyndham Championship, which again finalizes the 125-player field for the FedExCup Playoffs.

The Barclays leads off the Playoffs by returning to Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J. (Aug. 21-24). That is followed by the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston with a Monday finish on Labor Day Weekend (Sept. 1); the BMW Championship at Cherry Hills Country Club near Denver (Sept. 4-7); and the Tour Championship (Sept. 11-14). CBS will broadcast the weekend of The Barclays, and then NBC takes over for the final three events.

The Sanderson Farms Championship in Madison, Miss., will not be contested in 2013-2014 as it moves from July to the front end of the 2014-2015 schedule, opposite the HSBC Champions. With that move the PGA Tour no longer will have a tournament the same week as the Open Championship.

2013-14 PGA Tour schedule: