Real Tournaments 2022
Posted: October 5th, 2021, 2:16 pm
The 20th Anniversary Season of RT is roughed in. I'm waiting to see if I can get more updated purse amounts, and perhaps update the images of the tour cards. Like my prior work, PGA Tour events are at the pro level, with majors and select invitationals at that highest level. Many of the real events that I have researched, and filled the lower competitive levels with are no longer held. The semi-pro level is filled with extinct PGA Tour events, and a sprinkling of (also mostly past) events from other pro tours (Aussie, Canadian, Euro). The amateur level is largely what it has been since 2010.
When I started building these seasons, it was a challenge to fill the slots. These days, it is a challenge to keep everything confined to the 24 week format. We now have more current/recent PGA Tour venues than we have weeks available. The schedule makers did me a favor by moving the Wells Fargo to TPC Avenal. Quail Hollow appears as the Presidents Cup venue. The Old Wachovia Championship will likely become a part of RT2023.
Just when we get the Greenbriar playable in Links 2003, the PGA Tour permanently cancels the event there. I had nowhere else to put it, but right below the Masters. Similarly, there's no event at Sherwood CC, in 2022, just as we get a great edition of that course to play. The old World Challenge is a semi-pro event for 2022. If anything, the semi-pro level of the RT series has really gotten interesting and challenging. The Ultimate Senior US Open is found there, and is the last of my "ultimate style" events (a tradition likely to continue for this particular event). Alas, there was no room for an Ultimate Canadian Open, this year, and I understand that St. George's is being made for next year's event. We'll have to see about the future from there.
All of the majors are where they are being held, although some of the courses do date back to Links 2001. Thanks to all of the course designers, and the LC staff, as always. We're on-target for a late October release date, with the first event at Sea Island to begin on November 18th.
When I started building these seasons, it was a challenge to fill the slots. These days, it is a challenge to keep everything confined to the 24 week format. We now have more current/recent PGA Tour venues than we have weeks available. The schedule makers did me a favor by moving the Wells Fargo to TPC Avenal. Quail Hollow appears as the Presidents Cup venue. The Old Wachovia Championship will likely become a part of RT2023.
Just when we get the Greenbriar playable in Links 2003, the PGA Tour permanently cancels the event there. I had nowhere else to put it, but right below the Masters. Similarly, there's no event at Sherwood CC, in 2022, just as we get a great edition of that course to play. The old World Challenge is a semi-pro event for 2022. If anything, the semi-pro level of the RT series has really gotten interesting and challenging. The Ultimate Senior US Open is found there, and is the last of my "ultimate style" events (a tradition likely to continue for this particular event). Alas, there was no room for an Ultimate Canadian Open, this year, and I understand that St. George's is being made for next year's event. We'll have to see about the future from there.
All of the majors are where they are being held, although some of the courses do date back to Links 2001. Thanks to all of the course designers, and the LC staff, as always. We're on-target for a late October release date, with the first event at Sea Island to begin on November 18th.