Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Another golf event comes to
St. Louis
By JIM SALTER
Associated Press Writer
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The PGA Tour is following
the LPGA and the Senior PGA Tour to St. Louis.
The American Express Championship will be
held Sept. 13-16, 2001, at the Bellerive Country Club in west
St. Louis County.
The tournament is part of the World Golf
Championships, a series of events that features the best golfers
from the PGA Tour and five other major golf tours.
The locations change each year, so the event
is not a permanent stop in St. Louis. However, PGA Tour commissioner
Timothy Finchem, who announced details of the event Monday at
Bellerive, said St. Louis is one of six areas around the country
targeted for a future tour stop.
St. Louis already has the LPGA's Michelob
Light Classic and the Senior PGA Tour's Boone Valley Classic,
which next year becomes the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Senior Match
Play Championship. The city has not been home to a regular PGA
Tour event for several years, though Bellerive had the 1992 PGA
Championship.
Tiger Woods
is expected to be a part of the field at the American Express
tournament.
“This will be an event that attracts
the same kind of talent we attracted for the PGA in 1992, maybe
even better,” said Jerry Ritter, chairman of the event for
Bellerive.
Event director Michael Garten said there
is “no guarantee” that Woods, winner of three of the
four major championships this year, will be in St. Louis. However,
he has participated in all previous World Golf Championships.
And as Ritter noted, Woods is a spokesman for American Express.
“I say with 99.9 percent confidence,
Tiger will be here at Bellerive,” Garten said.
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