Washington Observer-Reporter
July 10, 2013
For the past three years, the Mylan Classic has been synonymous with an end-of summer PGA-sanctioned tournament, played at the Southpointe Golf Club around Labor Day weekend. The Mylan Classic Web.com Tour returns to Southpointe July 29-Aug. 4, an earlier tee time than in past years.
Web.com became the tour’s umbrella sponsor in June 2012, replacing Nationwide Insurance. It also enters a new era as a dramatically reconfigured PGA Tour qualifying structure in place that will result in all 50 PGA Tour cards for the 2013-14 season coming through the Web.com Tour. It is the only event in Pennsylvania on the Web.com Tour’s schedule.
“The new dates really worked out well for us,” said Mylan Classic Tournament Director Chase McClain, explaining that the earlier play dates give the Classic more prestige in the overall tour.
The event will draw a unique 144-player field consisting of Web.com Tour professionals and amateur standouts from as many as 20 countries.
Also descending on Washington County during tournament week will be the players’ families, caddies, Pro-Am participants, corporate guests, television crews, tour staff members and thousands of spectators.
The Golf Channel will televise all four rounds of the Mylan Classic in the United States. The tournament will also be distributed via the PGA Tour to 176 countries and territories on every continent except Antarctica.
Special invitations have been extended to the reigning U.S. Amateur and the current NCAA individual champion, Jack Nicklaus Award winner (collegiate player of the year) and first-team All-Americans. The remaining invitations went to U.S. Walker Cup team members, second-team All-Americans or the Division II player of the year.
For the fourth year, Mylan, one of the world’s leading drug companies, will sponsor the event.
“For the last three years, we have been the proud sponsor of the Mylan Classic, and we have been very pleased to see how the local community has come together and interacted with such an event,” said Mylan Executive Chairman Robert J. Coury.
In 2012, the event generated more than $545,000 for participating charities, and since 2010, it has raised more than $1.7 million for local nonprofits.
The new format featuring the college All- Americans and U.S. Amateur champion has been in effect since 2007 at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Open, which becomes a Web.com Tour Finals event in 2013.
Past participants include current PGA Tour stars Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Kyle Stanley and Bud Cauley. The event has been won three times by one of the All-Americans – Daniel Summerhays of BYU in 2007; Harris English of the University of Georgia in 2011; and last year by Ben Kohles of the University of Virginia.
The 2013 Web.com Tour schedule will feature 25 tournaments, played in 16 states and five Latin American countries, and will debut the four-event Web.com Tour Finals, which will conclude the season in September.
Mylan’s music
Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, Pure Gold and Bon Journey will be featured in the tournament’s 2013 concert series.
As a community event, the Mylan Classic offers both championship golf and entertainment for the whole family. Weekly tournament tickets for the Mylan Classic are priced at $25 and include admission for the tournament itself as well as the concert series, clinics, evening entertainment and special events during tournament week.
Tickets are being sold through a unique and innovative initiative known as the Ansys Tickets Fore Charity program.
Pittsburgh doo-wop legends Pure Gold will take the stage at Southpointe Golf Club on Aug. 1 at the completion of play.
On Aug. 2, Bon Journey, an original Bon Jovi and Journey tribute band, will perform at the golf club.
For the past three years, the Mylan Classic has been synonymous with an end-of summer PGA-sanctioned tournament, played at the Southpointe Golf Club around Labor Day weekend. The Mylan Classic Web.com Tour returns to Southpointe July 29-Aug. 4, an earlier tee time than in past years.
Web.com became the tour’s umbrella sponsor in June 2012, replacing Nationwide Insurance. It also enters a new era as a dramatically reconfigured PGA Tour qualifying structure in place that will result in all 50 PGA Tour cards for the 2013-14 season coming through the Web.com Tour. It is the only event in Pennsylvania on the Web.com Tour’s schedule.
“The new dates really worked out well for us,” said Mylan Classic Tournament Director Chase McClain, explaining that the earlier play dates give the Classic more prestige in the overall tour.
The event will draw a unique 144-player field consisting of Web.com Tour professionals and amateur standouts from as many as 20 countries.
Also descending on Washington County during tournament week will be the players’ families, caddies, Pro-Am participants, corporate guests, television crews, tour staff members and thousands of spectators.
The Golf Channel will televise all four rounds of the Mylan Classic in the United States. The tournament will also be distributed via the PGA Tour to 176 countries and territories on every continent except Antarctica.
Special invitations have been extended to the reigning U.S. Amateur and the current NCAA individual champion, Jack Nicklaus Award winner (collegiate player of the year) and first-team All-Americans. The remaining invitations went to U.S. Walker Cup team members, second-team All-Americans or the Division II player of the year.
For the fourth year, Mylan, one of the world’s leading drug companies, will sponsor the event.
“For the last three years, we have been the proud sponsor of the Mylan Classic, and we have been very pleased to see how the local community has come together and interacted with such an event,” said Mylan Executive Chairman Robert J. Coury.
In 2012, the event generated more than $545,000 for participating charities, and since 2010, it has raised more than $1.7 million for local nonprofits.
The new format featuring the college All- Americans and U.S. Amateur champion has been in effect since 2007 at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Open, which becomes a Web.com Tour Finals event in 2013.
Past participants include current PGA Tour stars Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Kyle Stanley and Bud Cauley. The event has been won three times by one of the All-Americans – Daniel Summerhays of BYU in 2007; Harris English of the University of Georgia in 2011; and last year by Ben Kohles of the University of Virginia.
The 2013 Web.com Tour schedule will feature 25 tournaments, played in 16 states and five Latin American countries, and will debut the four-event Web.com Tour Finals, which will conclude the season in September.
Mylan’s music
Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, Pure Gold and Bon Journey will be featured in the tournament’s 2013 concert series.
As a community event, the Mylan Classic offers both championship golf and entertainment for the whole family. Weekly tournament tickets for the Mylan Classic are priced at $25 and include admission for the tournament itself as well as the concert series, clinics, evening entertainment and special events during tournament week.
Tickets are being sold through a unique and innovative initiative known as the Ansys Tickets Fore Charity program.
Pittsburgh doo-wop legends Pure Gold will take the stage at Southpointe Golf Club on Aug. 1 at the completion of play.
On Aug. 2, Bon Journey, an original Bon Jovi and Journey tribute band, will perform at the golf club.