Boca Raton Tour Champions event to get new name in 2018
The annual PGA Tour Champions event returns to Broken Sound in Boca Raton in 2018 with a new tournament name.
A d a y a f t e r t h e c i t y announced the February event will no longer be sponsored by Allianz, offifficials with Pro Links Sports, organizers of the tournament, announced the tournament’s name for now will be the Boca Raton Regional Hospital Championship. The fifirst full- fifield event on the 50-and-older circuit will be Feb. 5-11, 2018.
“We are working hard with the PGA Tour on securing a new title sponsor and the continuation of bringing golf ’s greats to Boca Raton and Palm Beach Count y,” Pro Links Sports said in a news release.
Allianz ’s withdrawal as name sponsor was welcomed by many because of the German fifirm’s Holocaust ties.
Over t he ye a r s , g roups have picketed the Boca Raton tournament and other Alli- anz-sponsored events. They claim Allianz, a Nazi collaborator in World War II, failed to pay about $2 billion in claims owed to the survivors of Jews who bought life insurance policies and then were sent to extermination camps.
This year’s tournament attracted more than 67,000 fans to the Old Course at Broken Sound. Scott McCarron won the event with an 8-foot eagle on the par-5 18th hole, topping Carlos Franco and Kenny Perry by a stroke.