CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Greenbrier owner Jim Justice called the sixth Greenbrier Classic - that concluded on Sunday with Danny Lee winning his first PGA Tour championship - a "great, great week."
Two aces provided 536 fans watching on the No. 18 green with a total of $192,400 in the Hole-One-One Jackpot.
There were an estimated 50,000 fans at each of the shows during the Greenbrier Classic Concert Series - Keith Urban and The Band Perry on Wednesday and Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton on Friday.
And, the last day was highlighted by a Classic-record four-man playoff that lasted two holes and the tournament's third first-time PGA Tour champion after Scott Stallings in 2011 and Ted Potter Jr. in 2012. A packed No. 18 green watched Lee and David Hearn make clutch birdie putts to extend the playoff.
Justice hasn't revealed any plans for the seventh Classic, but, to be sure, golf being a part of the 2016 Summer Olympics will have quite an effect on the tournament's field at the Old White TPC.
Golf returns to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 with 72-hole individual stroke play competition, scheduled for Aug. 11-14, 2016. Sixty golfers will compete with up to four players representing each country and the top 15 in the World Golf Ranking automatically qualifying.
The date of the Olympics forced the PGA Championship (July 25-31) to be moved from its traditional August dates for the first time since 1971. The Greenbrier Classic is locked in to the week of Independence Day.
Summer tournaments not yet with dates are the Travelers Championship - which could be played in its traditional spot (June 20-26) - the Quicken Loans Invitational (Tiger Woods' event) and the John Deere Classic, which extended its sponsorship deal through 2023 on Tuesday.
Tournaments could compete against the Olympics, but Andy Bessette, the executive vice president and chief administrative officer for the Travelers, noted to the New Haven (Conn.) Register that he doesn't "want to play against the men in the Olympics or play against the women in the Olympics (Aug. 17-20). Somebody has to be between the British and the PGA. Who wants to be in that spot?"
The 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club is June 13-19. After one week that hasn't yet been scheduled (June 20-June 26), the Bridgestone is expected to be played (June 27-July 3) followed by three tournaments locked in to dates - the Greenbrier Classic (July 4-10), the Open Championship (July 11-17) at Royal Troon, the RBC Canadian Open (July 18-24) at Glen Abbey, and the PGA Championship (July 25-31) at Baltusrol. That creates a schedule with three majors and a WGC withing an seven-week period, and a visit to White Sulphur Springs in the middle. The FedEx Cup playoffs get underway following the Olympics.
That's a precarious spot for Justice, tournament director Monte Ortel and the rest of the Greenbrier Classic recruitment team to draw the world's top players to White Sulphur Springs.
"In all honesty we haven't reviewed all that, we haven't had any conversations with with the PGA," said Justice, who will continue preparation for the Nov. 8, 2016 West Virginia gubernatorial election. "We just haven't done anything on it yet."
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