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Firestone

to host the DANCES WITH

world's best

players over

50 next year

By DOUG FERGUSON T-WOLVES
AP Golf Writer
Firestone Country Club in
Ohio is losing a World Golf
Championship and picking
up one of the five majors
on the PGA Tour Champi-
ons.
In a pair of announce-
ments in different states
Thursday, the PGA Tour
said the FedEx St. Jude
Classic in Memphis, Ten-
nessee, will become a
World Golf Championship
in 2019, moving from the
week before the U.S. Open
to a midsummer date just
ahead of the FedEx Cup
playoffs.
It will be called the WGC-
FedEx St. Jude Invitational.
Bridgestone chose not
to renew its title sponsor-
ship of the WGC event
at Firestone. Instead, the
company will sponsor the
Senior Players Champion-
ship at the venerable Ak-
ron course with a history
of hosting the best in the
world. Starting next year,
Firestone will get the best
players over the age 50.
The move allows Firestone
to remain a big part of
the summer golf schedule,
where it has been since the
Rubber City Open in 1954.
Jack Nicklaus has won six
times at Firestone, includ-
ing the 1975 PGA Cham-
pionship. Tiger Woods is
an eight-time winner at
Firestone, all of them World Minnesota beats Denver to
Golf Championships titles.
The move is a boost for end 14-year playoff drought
Memphis, which has one of
the most significant chari-
ties in the St. Jude Chil-
dren’s Research Hospital.
Its field has been hurt by
being held a week before
the U.S. Open, with several Minnesota Timberwolves' Karl-Anthony Towns, left, and Jeff Teague celebrate the team's 112-106 win in overtime against the Den-
top players choosing not to ver Nuggets in an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 11, 2018, in Minneapolis.
play. Associated Press
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