THE TOUR Championship is the official final tournament on the golf PGA TOUR season. Starting from 1997, the Championship was held in different places, either at Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas, or at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia. East Lake Club became the contests permanent residence in 2004.
The top 30 money champions on the PGA TOUR after the penultimate tournament become eligible for THE TOUR Championship, which is reckoned as one of the most prosperous events during the TOUR.
It is held at the beginning of November, which is one week after the similar contest in Europe, known as the Volvo Masters. This gives a chance to the golfers, who are eligible for both the PGA TOUR and the European TOUR, to participate in each tournament of the end of the season. Right after THE TOUR Championship the money list of the season is closed. There are many secondary contests between THE TOUR Championship and Christmas, that are also acknowledged by the PGA TOUR, however the money remuneration, gained in them, is not considered to be official.
As long as the tournaments course is smaller than some other golf tournament sites, it does not have a 36-hole cut. Virtually all golfers, who take part in the competition, receive a credit for the cut and get some money from the prize fund.
Adam Derek Scott is the most recent winner of the tournament (in 2006). He was born on July 16, 1980. Scott is one of Australian professional golfers who regularly take part in the major golf tours. At the present moment he is one of the two players, born in the 80s, who have reached a top ten position in the Official World Golf Rankings. Therefore, he is generally considered to be one of the most promising players in men's golf.
In the next, 2007 season, THE TOUR Championship is going to transfer the date of the event from November to the middle of September. It will close a four-tournament Chase for the FedEx Cup, which was officially announced during the 2005 event. This will not, however, end the golf events. Six or seven more competitions are planned in the TOURs inaugural Quest for the Card, which will define the rest of the Top 125 golfers to take part in the FedEx Cup in 2008.
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