The International, known for its unique scoring system on the Castle Pines golf course held in the mile-high air outside Denver, will no longer be on the PGA Tour schedule effective immediately, a tour official said Wednesday.
The absence of a corporate sponsor was mostly responsible for canceling the 21-year-old tournament, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not formally been announced.
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem and tournament founder Jack Vickers are expected to make it official this morning.
They spent the last two weeks in a final effort to find a sponsor, then agreed to end it now.
International spokeswoman Joanna Busack said Vickers would not comment until Thursday.
The cancellation leaves a hole in the PGA Tour schedule on July 5-8, but tour officials have been working on a contingency plan over the last month and are expected to announce a replacement by April. The leading candidate is Washington, the largest U.S. market without a PGA Tour event.
The nation’s capital had a tour event since 1968, but that presumably ended when title sponsor Booz Allen bailed out last year because it was not part of the FedExCup portion of the PGA Tour schedule.
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