Austin Championship Week Opens Monday With a Four-Spot Qualifier at Palmer Lakeside
Four places in the inaugural Austin Championship field are on the table Monday in an 18-hole open qualifier at Omni Barton Creek's Palmer Lakeside course, ahead of Thursday's first round on the Fazio Canyons course.
AUSTIN — The inaugural Austin Championship presented by Compliance Solutions opens its week on Monday the hard way: an 18-hole open qualifier at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa's Palmer Lakeside Golf Course, with four golfers playing their way into the PGA Tour field, according to the PGA Tour's qualifier page read by the desk this run.
The tournament itself tees off Thursday on Barton Creek's Fazio Canyons Course, in the debut week of November 9–15 for Austin's new stop on the tour calendar. The PGA Tour's sponsor announcement placed the event as the seventh of eight tournaments on the FedExCup Fall schedule.
The week carries a local return beyond the golf: tournament proceeds benefit charities in Travis County and the greater Austin community, including the Play Yellow program of Children's Miracle Network, with support directed to pediatric cancer initiatives at the Blood and Cancer Center at Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, per the PGA Tour's announcement.
The Sports Desk will file the qualifier's four successful names when the tour publishes them; no scores were posted on the qualifier page read this morning, so none are reported here. Thursday's first-round file leads the desk's next golf coverage.
