US Pro Golf Tour
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The US Pro Golf Tour was a developmental men's professional golf tour in the United States owned by Greens Worldwide Incorporated. Early in 2007, the tour was suspended due to financial problems, leaving hundreds of players out of pocket having paid thousands of dollars in membership and tournament entry fees.[1] However, there were plans to re-launch the Tour with increased prize funds in 2009.
The highest level of men's professional golf in the United States is the PGA Tour, with the second level being the Nationwide Tour, which is the PGA Tour's official developmental tour. Below that sits the US Pro Golf Tour, which runs alongside rival third level tours such as the Gateway Tour and the NGA Pro Golf Tour. The players main objective on these tours is to perform as well as possible, in order to attract invitations to events on the higher level tours.
Prior to its suspension, the 2007 season was scheduled to include ten events with purses of $300,000 played in locations spread across the southern United States from California to Virginia. Highlights of the tournaments were to be broadcast on Fox Sports Net. The organisers also ran two regional tours called the "Tight Lies Players Tour", which was played around Texas and nearby states in the central south, and the "California Players Tour".
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- ^ "Cantwell scrambles after getting shaft". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. April 24, 2007. http://www2.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=596025. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
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