In January 1987, PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman introduced the first-ever Tour Championship—it was called the Nabisco Championship then—with these words:

"We've tried various other methods, but this could be what we've been looking for–a logical, dramatic conclusion to the tour." That was the problem they were trying to solve, but it went a little deeper than just a capstone event for the year. This was also about establishing another flagship for the tour in a golf landscape dominated by the majors. By then, they'd already had more than a decade of success with the Players Championship, which has continued to grow in stature in the 21st century as their answer to a major, but this was something different—a new reason, they hoped, for fans to care about golf, and something that mig

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