The Saturday finish at the Farmers Insurance Open could become an annual tradition.
The only question is whether a few other tournaments follow suit.
Farmers Insurance CEO Jeff Dailey told the San Diego Union-Tribune this week that the tournament will likely stick with its Wednesday-Saturday schedule for the foreseeable future. That shift allows the Farmers not to conflict with the NFL’s conference championship games on Sunday, and Golf Channel is using the open day on Torrey Pines’ South Course to broadcast, for the first time, the final round of an event on the Advocates Pro Golf Association, a circuit designed to promote diversity in the sport.