Revenue down 15% or more for golf tourneys - Dallas Business Journal:

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The HP Byron Nelson last year broughtin $13 milliomn in revenue and donated $6.1 milliobn to the . two weeks before the tournament, which will be May 18-234 at the TPC Four Seasons Las organizers are announcinga sellout. For this year’sw event, sales topped $10 million this roughly 15% to 18% lower than the two week s prior to the2008 tournament. For the first time in more than a tickets will be sold atthe “I can pretty much assure you we won’t be setting any sales records,” said Charleu Spradley, 2009 HP Byron Nelson Championshipp Tournament chairman. “This year has been a particularlytoughu one. We are no exception.
” purchased last year, changinb the title sponsorship of the But HP, and many of the event’s corporate sponsors, have stuck with it, Spradley said. He expects to see the crowdd hit 250,000 this year, but not until tickets are sold atthe