PGA Tour officials cancel Viking Classic

October 31, 2009

MADISON, Miss. (AP)—PGA Tour officials have canceled the weather-strickenViking Classic because of unplayable course conditions.

There will be no makeup date and players will move on to the final event ofthe season, the Children’s Miracle Network Classic on Nov. 12-15 in Orlando,Fla.

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Annandale Golf Club received 1.75 inches of rain overnight Friday andSaturday, and an already marginal course was being compared to a disaster areaby officials.

Madison has received more than 20 inches of rain in the last six weeks.

This is the first time a tournament has been scrapped outright because ofweather since the 1996 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, which was canceled dueto unplayable conditions. The last rainout came in Houston in 1991.

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