User:Wjemather/World Golf Tour

• Launched by Greg Norman in November 1994.
• Executive John Montgomery Jr.
• Broadcast rights bought by Fox Television (Rupert Murdoch).
• Planned 8 (later reduced to 6) $3 million tournaments ($600,000 to the winner), with $1 million bonus to the year's leading player.
• Tim Finchem vowed to enforce the PGA Tour's conflicting release and television policies to prevent players from competing.
• Resulted in the foundation of the International Federation of PGA Tours in 1996 and the creation of the World Golf Championships.

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