Golf-PGA Tour's revamped 2015-16 season makes room for Olympics

July 30 (Reuters) - The PGA Tour will have two new title
sponsors for its 2015-16 season along with several date changes
to accommodate golf's return to the Olympic Games in Rio de
Janeiro next year, the Tour said on Thursday.
The sport's most lucrative circuit starts in mid-October and
will comprise 47 tournaments before it concludes with the Sept.
22-25 Tour Championship in Atlanta, the last of the four
lucrative FedExCup playoff events.
Texas-based PC maker Dell takes over as sponsor of the
year's second World Golf Championships event, the March 23-27
WGC-Dell Match Play in Austin, while internet jobs site
CareerBuilder backs what was long known as the Bob Hope Classic.
The newly named CareerBuilder Challenge, in partnership with
the Clinton Foundation, will be played at three venues in La
Quinta, California from Jan. 21-24.
To accommodate golf's return to the Olympics for the first
time since 1904, with the men's competition at the Rio Games due
to be held from Aug. 11-14, three events will be shifted on the
PGA Tour calendar.
The season's final major, the PGA Championship, will be
played earlier than usual, at Baltusrol in New Jersey from July
28-31, while the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut
and the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois are pushed back
to Aug. 4-7 and Aug. 11-14 respectively.
All three events will return to their traditional dates for
the 2016-17 season, the Tour said.
The elite World Golf Championship (WGC) events, one rung
down from the four majors, will open with the HSBC Champions in
Shanghai, China in November followed by the Cadillac
Championship in Miami in March.
Next up is the Dell Match Play before the high-profile WGC
series concludes with the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron,
Ohio from June 30-July 3.
The U.S. Open will return to Oakmont Country Club in
Pennsylvania for a ninth time, from June 16-19, and the British
Open will be played at Royal Troon in Scotland from July 14-17.