User:Wjemather/World Golf Tour


 * Launched by Greg Norman in November 1994.
 * Executive John Montgomery Jr.
 * Broadcast rights bought by Fox Television (Rupert Murdoch).
 * Planned 8 (later reduced to 6) $3 million tournaments ($600,000 to the winner), with $1 million bonus to the year's leading player.
 * Tim Finchem vowed to enforce the PGA Tour's conflicting release and television policies to prevent players from competing.
 * Resulted in the foundation of the International Federation of PGA Tours in 1996 and the creation of the World Golf Championships.