NBC and the Golf Channel will be covering the plays as PGA Tour golfers compete for the US$4 million purse offered at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. The tournament is to be played at the Corales Golf Course with six holes interacting with the Caribbean Sea. The championship is Thursday, 24 September to Sunday, 27 September 2020.
The president and CEO of Grupo Puntacana, Frank Rainieri has insisted the PGA Tour is the platform for relaunching tourism given the extensive TV coverage the event brings on prime time in the United States. “Since 2018, the tournament has positioned the Dominican Republic as the leading Caribbean golf destination. This time it will be an excellent platform to open and promote the destination Punta Cana,” says Rainieri.
The focus is on promoting play at the Caribbean Sea-bordering golf course, with TV-perfect shots of the salt spray at the natural cliffs that are part of the golf course, too. It is to position the Dominican Republic in the minds of travelers so these book a Dominican vacation once they are ready to travel again.
This is the third consecutive year, Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship is held. Its celebration is part of the 50th anniversary of Grupo Puntacana.
The tournament is part of the 2020-2021 golf season’s opening events and will be the only PGA Tour event during that week. 144 professional players are coming to earn points for the FedEx Cup.
Championship players are flying down in a charter, and the scheme calls for “bubbles” to ensure everyone comes in without the disease and leaves with great memories but no infection. Players are coming from the United States, Spain, Mexico, Sweden, South Korea, among other countries.
In these Covid-19 times, the event will be held without an audience on the course and with the most rigorous sanitary safety measures. The prize money has been increased by US$1 million and is the highest in the history of Dominican sports. The score for the FedEx Cup is increased to 500 and players win a place in the Masters.
The live transmissions will be Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September, from 3pm to 6pm, on the Golf Channel; and Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September simultaneously on the NBC network. Also, there will be daily repeats of Golf Channel outside regular hours.
From the funds generated at the sports event, the social and environmental projects of the Grupo Puntacana Foundation, and the programs of US Kids Golf and the American Junior Golf Association will benefit.
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10 September 2020