{"id":15167,"date":"2012-10-02T17:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/golf-south-africa-secures-rights-to-big-money-event-for-10-years\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:26:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:26:59","slug":"golf-south-africa-secures-rights-to-big-money-event-for-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-south-africa-secures-rights-to-big-money-event-for-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-South Africa secures rights to big-money event for 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has secured the hosting rights to golf&#8217;s new, $8.5-million Tournament of Hope for 10 years, organisers said on Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The event, announced in February and sanctioned by the world&#8217;s leading tours, will have a prize fund second only to the Players Championship, which offers $9.5 million.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tournament had been moved forward a week from the date originally planned and would be held from Nov. 21-24 next year on a course yet to be determined, the International Federation of PGA Tours and South Africa&#8217;s Sunshine Tour said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In February, the federation said the tournament was designed to help raise awareness of HIV\/AIDS prevention and treatment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our vision is to ensure that this tournament becomes globally recognised as one of the top tournaments in the world and successfully positions South Africa to an international audience,&#8221; Brand de Villiers, chairman of tournament promoters SAIL, said in a statement on Tuesday.   (Reporting by Jason Humphries in Durban; Editing by Clare Fallon)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Oct 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has secured the hosting rights to golf&#8217;s new, $8.5-million Tournament of Hope for 10 years, organisers said on Tuesday. The event, announced in February and sanctioned by the world&#8217;s leading tours, will have a prize fund second only to the Players Championship, which offers $9.5 million. The tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}