State’s Longtime Professional Golf Tournament Set to Debut at New Venue, Nov. 3-9
(JACKSON, Miss.) – The state’s annual PGA TOUR competition – the Sanderson Farms Championship benefitting Century Club Charities – will move to historic Country Club of Jackson, the tournament director confirmed yesterday.
Sanderson Farms Championship will debut at Country Club of Jackson, Nov. 3-9, at the start of the 2014-15 PGA TOUR season.
Country Club of Jackson dates back to 1914. It is a private club with 27 championship holes, 18 of which were re-designed by John Fought in 2008 and measure 7,284 yards from the Championship Tees.
Fought’s layout incorporates classic Donald Ross flavor – parkland style routing with smallish, tricky greens – which range in size at CC of Jackson from approximately 5,000 to 8,500 square feet.
Mississippi’s annual PGA TOUR stop dates back decades and has been played at several venues under different title sponsors or tournament names.
It has been played – to great reception – at Jack Nicklaus-designed Annandale Country Club in Madison the past 20 years. Woody Austin prevailed at Annandale during the 2013 Sanderson Farms Championship, one of two TOUR events played in the golf-rich Magnolia State. The Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic – a Champions TOUR event – was played at Fallen Oak Golf Club last month and won by Jeff Maggert.
“Mississippi is proud to support the great work done by Sanderson Farms Championship and Century Club Charities,” said Mississippi Development Authority Director of Tourism Malcolm White. “Simultaneously benefitting charitable organizations and highlighting our great state through professional golf is a win-win.”
Mississippi’s Friends of Children’s Hospital is Sanderson Farms Championship’s main beneficiary.
For more information, visit www.visitmississippi.org/golf.php or call toll-free 1-866-801-8551.
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