Stephen Curry golf event scrapped; PGA Tour cites short time frame
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The PGA Tour abandoned plans Tuesday to hold a new, Stephen Curry-hosted event at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City in September.
Tour officials had anticipated announcing the new tournament in the next two weeks. They even held dates on the calendar (Sept. 19-22) for the fall portion of the 2019-20 season.
But negotiations with potential title sponsor Workday, the finance and human resources software company in Pleasanton, unexpectedly broke off. Tour officials didn’t have time to find another title sponsor, especially given the course changes Lake Merced would need to make in eight months.
“We are still committed to bringing an event to San Francisco,” Curry told The Chronicle. “It just won’t be this year.