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PGA TOUR
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The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra
Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville. The PGA Tour became a separate
entity in 1968, branching off from the PGA of America, which is now
primarily an association of club professionals.
Due to a multiplicity of similar names, it is worth emphasizing what the PGA Tour does and does not organize.
The PGA Tour does not run any of the four major golf tournaments or the Ryder Cup. The PGA of America, not the PGA Tour, runs the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, and co-organizes the Ryder Cup with the PGA European Tour.
The PGA Tour is not involved with the women's tours in the U.S.; they are controlled by the LPGA.
The PGA Tour is also not the governing body for the game of golf in the United States; this, instead, is the role of the USGA, which organizes the U.S. Open.
What the PGA Tour does organize are the remaining week-to-week events, including The Players Championship and the FedEx Cup events, as well as the biennial Presidents Cup.
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