Ask Larry: Match Play?
Larry Bohannan
The Desert Sun
Q: What happened to the Accenture Match Play event that used to be the last event on the West Coast swing of the PGA Tour?
A: Well, it moved.
The Accenture Match Play event, part of the World Golf Championships, was last played in 2014 in Arizona to wrap up the West Coast swing. Jason Day beat Victor Dubisson in extra holes of the final match.
But after that event, the tournament went looking for a new sponsor and a new golf courses. It found a new sponsor in Cadillac, and it found a new course in Harding Park in San Francisco. But along with all of that, it also found a new date on the PGA Tour schedule. The tournament will now be played April 29 through May 3. That could create a little bit of an issue with some golfers, since the tour the previous week will play in New Orleans, and the week after the Match Play golfers will tee off in The Players Championship in Florida.
So you can expect a least a few big names in the game to choose not to make two cross-country trips in two week and just skip the Match Play events.