A few questions up here if people wish to while youre thinking ted bishop and i share a history we going both have a two hole in ones hes a pga professional im just a mayor. Anyway any questions . All right. Thank you. Again, thank you for being here and thank you, again president bishop and commissioner. Turns out here to San Francisco. Were a worldclass city i we provided ourselves in hosting events that really take advantage of our setting but also in the arena of supporters to have the pga here compliments and brings people together and raises money but raises Great Charity events something sandy and charles have worked to establish the program. There was so much thats reflected in those great tournlts thats a history of harding park and how we revitalized it its participator hospitality and its International Event when you say the r see the finding cup and lutz all the players come and enjoy themselves youre coming to a city with 74 General Council offices it compliments and suppo
Boat raise this is an urban setting this is why they choose San Francisco to host it the urban setting the parks are extremely valuable on behalf of the city of San Francisco thank you sandy tatum for your wonderful leadership in restoring our clubhouse it is restored for a reason. Im standing be here amidst those trophies and im sure the commissioner will mention but let me city in addition to those worldclass golf event that bring the best players from around the world in our country to be here and play here in the city to fill our hotels and our great restaurant and all our hospitality i wanted to say i appreciate the pga for another important reason. And i know that since commissioner fittings up took over in the mid 90s, the pga tour has raised over one billion dollars in charity for all kinds of causes across the country i think that part of the our dna we wish to have the first t program enriched by all the golf tournlts in alignment with the way we handle all the international
Enthusiasm of the fans in the bay area and the diversity of the fans the intelligence of the fans and our players noticed that as well that you had thousands of people who it out 80 taught to handinging park and know its a wonderful thing to bay play that level of competition at harding park since tln then chamz in partnership with chuck to get the clubhouse built so here we are today, were excited about this for a number of reasons one to have a major champingship played are here this past weekend i heard cbs say over and over again in washington, d. C. The congressional is major champing venue and with teds announcement today from today on harding park will be referred to as a major champingship venue thats a terrific thing for any golf course and the first t to help it get moving is positive as well. Id like to spend a second before i bring ed up to talk about for a second the match play champing. We think that having played the president cup at harding and 9 and being existed about
Well, you know today is certainly a very monumental day in the history of pga in america and certainly in the Golf Community in San Francisco im here to announce it the pga champing will come through harding park in 2020 and will mark the first time in the one hundred and 2 year history of the pga championing that will be played in the great city of San Francisco this would not be possible thank you clapping this certainly would not be possible without the great collaboration with the city and county of San Francisco the pga tour and the pga of america and mayor ed lee and thanks to you and phil givens berg and tim this seems like another step in a lot of the things weve been able to accomplish working together in the past 20 months and look forward to a great future for the pga of america and iceland be remissed if i didnt say thank you to our chief officers clapping at the pga of america quite honestly we got this deal done fast and it was certainly not without theyre great efforts b
Played are here this past weekend i heard cbs say over and over again in washington, d. C. The congressional is major champing venue and with teds announcement today from today on harding park will be referred to as a major champingship venue thats a terrific thing for any golf course and the first t to help it get moving is positive as well. Id like to spend a second before i bring ed up to talk about for a second the match play champing. We think that having played the president cup at harding and 9 and being existed about it cob in 2025 it sets up for a match play that was a factor in deciding to bring it. But also you may not be aware were bringing it forward with a new format historically we have the top 64 players 2 against 63 they play on wednesday and were down to 32 players and on thursday were going to do it differently t next year its going to be a worldclass play cup everyone in the United States being riverside to that formulate in brazil where well be playing golf in the