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**forextradinginfo** · 08-13-2009, 06:20 PM

I don't expect many banks to renew their sponsorship contracts; I think we will see a lot of "final" events, such as the Buick Open.

I'm going to be interested in seeing how the PGA Tour handles this. A few years back they pulled the plug on The International because the tournament organizers couldn't come up with a "primary" or name sponsor after Sprint dropped out. They still ran a great tournament, still had a decent prize purse, but Finchem would not allow them to continue without the sponsor. Will the Tour change this policy in order to keep tournaments that Finchem likes? Or will he stick to his guns and possibly lose 5 or 6 or more tournaments to the bad economy?

08-13-2009, 06:20 PM	#9
forextradinginfo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 331 Senior Member	I don't expect many banks to renew their sponsorship contracts; I think we will see a lot of "final" events, such as the Buick Open. I'm going to be interested in seeing how the PGA Tour handles this. A few years back they pulled the plug on The International because the tournament organizers couldn't come up with a "primary" or name sponsor after Sprint dropped out. They still ran a great tournament, still had a decent prize purse, but Finchem would not allow them to continue without the sponsor. Will the Tour change this policy in order to keep tournaments that Finchem likes? Or will he stick to his guns and possibly lose 5 or 6 or more tournaments to the bad economy?
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