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U.S. Tour names 48-event schedule
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSATLANTA, Georgia -- The U.S. PGA Tour have announced a 48-tournament schedule for the 2006 season, offering a total prize fund in excess of $255m. The Tour will once again begin in Kapalua, Hawaii, from January 5-8 with the elite winners only Mercedes Championship - and end in November with the Tour Championship in Atlanta. The Mercedes will be followed by the season's first full-field event the Sony Open in Honolulu. The World Golf Championship events will open with the Accenture Match Play Championships in Carlsbad, California in February followed by the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Akron Ohio in August. The third stop of the lucrative series will be staged in Europe with The Grove playing host to WGC-American Express Championship, in England in late September. The WGC World Cup will be held in December at a venue to be named later. Dunhill prize fund confirmedMeanwhile, record prize money of one million euros ($1.21 million) has been confirmed for next month's Dunhill Championship in South Africa. The prize fund is 720,000 euros higher than last year, making the European Tour-sanctioned event among the most lucrative on the schedule. Had it offered a similar purse 11 months ago, it would have been the eighth richest tournament in the first six months of the 2005 schedule. The Dunhill Championship, to be played at Leopard Creek near Malelane from December 8-11, is the fourth event on the 2006 European Tour. The South African Open, being staged the following week at Fancourt Golf Club outside George, also offers prize money of one million euros. "This is a tremendous boost for South African professional golf," said Sunshine Tour commissioner Johan Immelman. "I would really like to applaud the Dunhill Championship for this increase in its purse. "It has always been one of our most prestigious tournaments and this increase will ensure that it remains one of the flagship tournaments of our Tour." The winner of this year's event will receive a cheque for 166,660 euros, more than 45,000 euros up on the figure earned by South Africa's Charl Schwartzel for his European Tour breakthrough at Leopard Creek last December. 
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