Although plans aren’t finished, the PGA hopes to have a
tournament held no sooner than 2010 – the first for the Silicon
Valley in more than four decades.
The PGA Tour is coming to Morgan Hill, tour officials announced Tuesday.
Although plans aren’t finished, the PGA hopes to have a tournament held no sooner than 2010 – the first for the Silicon Valley in more than four decades.
The target venue is electronics tycoon John Fry’s golf course in Morgan Hill, where the American Institute of Mathematics is building a $50 million center.
To bring the tour to his links course, Fry first has to submit a detailed plan for accommodating such an event with its enormous crowds and traffic. The 192-acre institute is mainly nonurban and unlikely to provide parking on site, which could spill over into environmentally sensitive land.
“An environmental impact report still has to be done, so there’s still a lot to be finished,” said Morgan Hill Mayor Steve Tate. “It’s not going to be easy, but we want to do it right.”
The immense, 7,952-yard course has been tangled in controversy since its expansion in the early decade, a process done without proper permission.
The PGA Tour added that the tournament will succeed another event Fry’s company – Fry’s Electronics – sponsors in Scottsdale, Ariz.
