Running Horse Golf Championship

The Running Horse Golf Championship is a proposed PGA Tour golf tournament. It was scheduled to be played for the first time on October 22-28, 2007, but will now take place for the first time in 2009 at the earliest, if it is ever played at all. A new tournament called the Ginn sur Mer Classic at Tesoro will be played in that slot in 2007, and is under contract to be played for at least five years. [http://www.pgatour.com/2007/r/06/14/ginn_resorts/index.html Ginn Resorts to Host PGA Tour Event] ]

The tournament was to be staged at Running Horse Golf & Country Club in Fresno, California, a residential golf development with a course co-designed by Jack Nicklaus and his son Jack Nicklaus II, which was under construction when the tournament was announced. However, in November 2006 it was reported that foreclosure proceedings on Running Horse had begun. The City of Fresno hoped that a buyer could be found and the tournament would go ahead. The PGA Tour also remained optimistic, and the tournament director stated that the tournament could be played at Running Horse if the course was seeded by March 2007. However a move to a new venue, which would entail a change of name, had not been ruled out. [ [http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&id=4721018 Is there a Fresh Start for Running Horse?] , "abclocal.go.com", November 2006 (day of month not stated online).] By early June 2007 there was no real doubt that the tournament would not take place at Running Horse in 2007, [http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/james/story/51509.html] [http://www.fresnobee.com/sports/story/51359.html] and on June 14 the PGA Tour announced the replacement event. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem stated, "Our intention... is for Fresno to be a part of the schedule again in 2008 and beyond."

If the event is revived, it will be the first PGA Tour event to be staged in central California since 1964.

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* [http://www.runninghorsegolf.com/index.html Running Horse Golf & Country Club]