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dates to 1928 and has been a frequent
Mexican Open host, where winners
have included Roberto de Vicenzo,
Ben Crenshaw and Jay Haas.
Displaying his impish Irish humor,
Rory McIlroy remarked, upon the
event moving from Trump Doral
Miami to Mexico, "We'll just jump
over the wall."
In the New York Metropolitan Area,
Barclays is out as title sponsor of the
first FedEx Cup Playoff event, re-
placed by Northern Trust, which gives
up its sponsorship of February's L.A.
tournament at Riviera.
There's a new venue as well, Glen
Oaks on Long Island, a 1971 Joe Fin-
ger design that enjoys superb condi-
tioning, courtesy of superintendent
Craig Currier, who formerly
tended the grass at Bethpage
Black.
Down in the Carolinas,
the annual Wells Fargo
event in May swaps out one
Tom Fazio product, Quail Hollow
in Charlotte, for another, Eagle Point
in Wilmington, due to Quail Hollow
assuming hosting duties of August's
PGA Championship. The exclusive,
16-year-old Eagle Point features
Fazio's typical gorgeous bunker
sculpting and large, contoured
greens.
Finally, two old friends are back on
the schedule.
Of course, Torrey Pines North never
left, but you might not recognize the
Farmers Insurance Open co-host after
a Tom Weiskopf re-design that fea-
tures flipped nines, larger, flatter
greens, re-built bunkers, and short
grass around the greens.
The other altered veteran is the TPC
Potomac at Avenel Farms, this year's
venue for Tiger's Quicken Loans Na-
tional tournament.
Once called the TPC at Avenel, it
was a somewhat unpopular layout
that hosted the PGA Tour from 1987
through 2006 (mostly the Kemper
Open) but a complete makeover in
2007 has boosted its likability.
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