The Turning Stone Resort Championship is Slated to Be an Autumn Spectacle.
After three years of play, fans and golfers alike are coming to expect a truly entertaining week.
The Turning Stone championship has made the autumn scenery its home in the Mohawk Valley, and the Mohawk Valley has made the Turning Stone Championship a part of the scenery here as well. Now that it is in its third year, this upcoming week's PGA Tour event which is slated to be held at the Atunyote Golf Club is far from being new anymore. It is marked on local calendars of local golf fans as well as Turning Stone employees and owners of local restaurants as well.
The Turning Stone Championship is drawing a solid field worth of professional golfers, and the only ones missing are the very top tier of competition. The Turning Stone Championship is played on a truly lovely course with the rolling hills of Oneida County serving as a stunning backdrop laced with leaves as they change colors for the fall.
The Atunyote Golf Club was designed by a man named Tom Fazio, and it is one of three courses owned by the Oneida nation, with the other two being Shenendoah and Kaluhyat. The first time that the Atunyote Golf Club hosted a PGA tour event was in July 2006 on short notice because the BC Open from Binghamton was not capable of being played on the home course as a result of substantial damage from flooding. The golfers that played here that first year walked away feeling suitably impressed, and now the Atunyote Golf Club is hosting more golfing events.
Now ever since 2007, the Oneidas have been given an annual tournament by the PGA Tour. The inaugural tournament was won by Steve Flesch and then last year's tournament was won by Dustin Johnson. Every year the field seems to improve by a little bit. Among the total 132 golfers that are planning to play this year for a purse of $6 million dollars are Heath Slocum who won last months' Barclays event as part of the FedEx Cup and Rocco Mediate, who went head to head with Tiger Woods during the 2008 US Open tournament.
The one thing that is missing right now are golfers like Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, but despite their absence from this particular tournament, the level of competition here is still highly competitive, and the Turning Stone Championship has still become an entertaining and reliably competitive stop along the tour. People may be more excited if these elite players made a stop here, but these are the best golfers in the world, and people aren't going to stop showing up just because Tiger Woods isn't here.
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