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Sunday 16 September 2001PGA Tour · European TourYear in Review
WGC-American Express Championship cancelled
Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri · Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 September 2001 · purse $5 million USD · American Express · Scheduled Thursday 13 - Sunday 16 September 2001. On 11 September the PGA Tour first planned to scrap Thursday's round and play 36 holes Friday; on 12 September the event was cancelled outright after the September 11 attacks (sponsor American Express headquartered in lower Manhattan). Not rescheduled in 2001.
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 12 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 53° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
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Same week
PGA Tour event
WGC-American Express Championship
Bellerive Country Club, Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri
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From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
12 September 2001
the American Express Championship, the Tampa bay classic presented by Buick, the Senior PGA TOUR Vantage Championship, and the BUY.COM Oregon Classic have all been cancelled.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
12 September 2001
they are right down the street about four or five blocks from the World Trade Center. So you can imagine the trauma that they are experiencing now.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
11 September 2001
Right now, what we are currently planning to do is to cancel Thursday's round. We will participate and have 36 holes of competition on Friday and Saturday, and Sunday would be back on schedule again
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