Nationwide Tour Coming To TPC Sawgrass...Valley Course

Garry Smits reports that Nationwide Tour players will get to hang out at Taj Tim and enjoy Bobby Weed...err...Pete Dye's Valley Course next year.

The PGA Tour will announce at a Wednesday news conference that a Nationwide Tour event will be played at the TPC Sawgrass in the fall of 2010, the Times-Union has learned.

The full-field event will likely be played at the Dye’s Valley Course. It is believed that the Tour does not want to use the Stadium Course for the event because it already is the venue for The Players Championship in May, which costs the facility and the Marriott Sawgrass more than a month of resort income.

The Nationwide Tour is the PGA Tour’s development circuit, launched in 1990 as the Ben Hogan Tour. Most of the players are professionals in the early stages of their careers, and many have used the Nationwide Tour as a launching pad to their PGA Tour careers.