Robust Advance Sales For BMW At Crooked Stick Confirm There's Very Little To Do In Indianapolis

From an unbylined AP story suggest the four-day September tournament could approach galleries of 150,000. Or, what Scottsdale actually gets for the week.

Organizers already have announced the tourney will return to Chicago in 2013 and 2015, with Denver hosting it in 2014. But Indy's response could push the city into the BMW rotation or perhaps prompt tour officials to give Indianapolis a chance to fill a hole on a future schedule.

"At the present time, we don't have any openings," PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw said Tuesday. "But certainly, Indy's record makes it a market that we would always be interested in at looking at if there was an open spot. A significant number of our events are signed through post-2014."

Phoenix typically has the largest announced crowds for non-majors, but Midwestern cities such as St. Louis and Minneapolis traditionally have drawn well when they make it onto the schedule. Crooked Stick has, too.