Before We Leave The Concession...

Before we move on from The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, a salute is in order for putting on a good short notice show with the World Golf Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession (just imagine, the first tee announcer repeated that doozy all day!).

While the architecture leans a little too artificial and overbuilt for my taste, the course appeared to give players plenty of fun problems to solve. It’s not clear if this is a one-off, but the February 16th press release announcing Workday as sponsor only specified this stand-in role because the normal host in Mexico City was not available (and sounds unlikely to return). The Concession also paid an unsustainable fee to help fund the purse and maybe move some real estate.

Either way, I really enjoyed the excuse to go back and read up on the 1969 Ryder Cup moment that gave the course its name, digging up some fun and forgotten anecdotes from that Cup for Quadrilateral subscribers here.