Compliment Rescinded: Liberty National Is Back!

For Immediate PGA Tour Locker Room Grumbling...

NEW YORK and PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL – The PGA TOUR and Barclays announced today that the major global financial services provider has signed a four-year extension as title sponsor of The Barclays, the first tournament in the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. The agreement extends the sponsorship through 2016 and will carry the PGA TOUR’s presence in the New York metropolitan area to 50 years, dating back to 1967. The Barclays 2011 will be held August 23-28 at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J.

Additionally, the PGA TOUR, Barclays and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation have reached an agreement to take The Barclays to Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in 2012 and 2016. Bethpage Black, in Farmingdale, N.Y., in 2002 became the first publicly owned and operated course to host the U.S. Open. It also hosted the 2009 U.S. Open. Bethpage Black was designed by famed golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast and opened in 1936.

Bethpage joins Plainfield Country Club, Liberty National and Ridgewood Country Club as host venues for The Barclays through the length of the title extension. The course rotation is:

2012 - Bethpage State Park’s Black Course, Farmingdale, N.Y.
2013 – Liberty National, Jersey City, N.J.
2014 – Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, N.J.
2015 – Plainfield Country Club, Edison, N.J.
2016 – Bethpage State Park’s Black Course, Farmingdale, N.Y.

As I noted yesterday, what a fantastic rotation...except for '13.