At a signing ceremony at the PGA TOUR headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida on 28 October 2015, the PGA TOUR and representatives of Puntacana Resort & Club announced that the Web.com Tour will be played in Punta Cana next year.
The Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship will be the Web.com Tour’s first tournament in the Dominican Republic as well as the first to be played on any of the Caribbean islands.
Frank Elias Rainieri signed the three-year agreement on behalf of Puntacana Resort & Club. The first of three annual tournaments will be played from 30 May-5 June 2016.
The Tom Fazio-designed “Corales” course at Puntacana Resort & Club will be the host venue.
Opened in 2010, the course plays along the natural cliffs, bays, ocean coves and the inland lakes and coral stone quarries of the Caribbean Sea. The layout features six oceanfront holes and culminates with its last three holes known as the “Devil’s Elbow”, with the striking 18th hole requiring a dramatic forced carry over the cliff-lined Bay of Corales.
The Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship will feature a 156-player field, with an eligibility component similar to that used at other Web.com Tour events in Latin America. The purse will be US$625,000.
Sport Link of Bogota, Colombia, organizers of two other Web.com Tour events in Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia will be managing the event.
It is expected to continue to strengthen the sport in the Latin American region.
Source: http://dr1.com/travelnews/archive/2015/tnews112415.html
