Little Change in 2010 PGA Tour Calendar

The 2010 PGA Tour schedule will again feature 37 regular season events to be followed by four PGA Tour playoff events for the FedEx Cup.

The season-long FedEx Cup competition will open the week of Jan. 4-10 with the SBS Championship at Kapalua, Hawaii, and will conclude the week of Sept. 20-26 at The Tour Championship presented by Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

"We've very pleased to announce our schedule through the 2010 FedEx Cup season," said PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem. "Despite difficult economic times we once again have a full slate of events and look forward to yet another exciting season for the PGA Tour."

Changes to the schedule include the addition of The Greenbrier Classic, which will debut the week of July 26 - Aug. 1 at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; a new date for the Turning Stone Resort Championship, which moves from the Fall Series to the week of Aug. 2-8; and finally the move of the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open to an earlier date, July 12-18, opposite The Open Championship in Scotland.

Four events will be held on new courses in 2010:

- The AT&T National moves to the Philadelphia area for the next two years. It will be played at Aronimink Golf Club while Congressional Country Club prepares to host the 2011 Men's U.S. Open.

- Monterey Peninsula Country Club joins the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, replacing Poppy Hills.

- The Valero Texas Open will be held at the new TPC San Antonio for the first time.

- The RBC Canadian Open will be held in suburban Toronto at St. George's Golf & Country Club for the first time since 1968.

The regular season will conclude with the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C. (Aug. 16-22) with the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup beginning the following week with The Barclays returning to Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J.

The PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup will assume the same sequence as 2009 with The Barclays leading off to be followed in consecutive weeks by the Deutsche Bank Championship (Aug. 30-Sept. 6) and the BMW Championship (Sept. 7-12). There will again be an off week at the conclusion of the BMW Championship before the top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings advance to The Tour Championship in Atlanta.

The U.S. Open will return to Pebble Beach (June 14-20) with the Open Championship moving to the Old Course at St. Andrews (July 12-18) and the PGA Championship to Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin (Aug. 9-15).

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