Spectators follow the golfers during the Children’s Hospital Classic at the Black Creek Club in this file photo.The Children’s Hospital Classic will be on hiatus for the 2012 calendar year, but the Nationwide Tour event likely will return to Black Creek Club in May of 2013.
The combination of construction at Black Creek, the PGA Tour revising its Nationwide schedule, and the difficulty of securing funding for two tournaments within seven months forced tournament organizers to take the year off.
“When you combine everything, we decided it would be best to skip 2012,” tournament director Mickey McCamish said. “We just could not get a date that would really work.”
The PGA Tour is committed to continuing its relationship with Friends of the Festival to get the tournament back on its schedule in 2013, perhaps in late May, as McCamish and the tour have discussed. It has been in October in recent years.
“We don’t know what the ’13 schedule is going to look like in general because there are so many variables,” said Jeff Adams, Nationwide Tour communications director. “The hope is that we will return. Everybody is working to do that. It’s still a work in progress.