Stephen Curry golf event fallout: PGA Tour squanders great chance

All along, this seemed almost too good to be true for the PGA Tour and Bay Area fans.

Warriors guard Stephen Curry, noted golf nut, attaching his name and star power to a new tournament at Lake Merced? Curry recruiting top players, roaming the grounds, presenting the trophy?

Then, in the end, it really was too good to be true.

Tuesday’s news of the tour abandoning plans for the September event counted as a big surprise. Octagon, the sports-management company set to run the event, had all but hired a tournament director. And as recently as late last week, officials were planning a formal announcement that the deal was done.