Tag: The Greenbrier Classic

Keith Urban, The Band Perry to Perform at Greenbrier

Keith Urban and The Band Perry will perform in concert during this year’s Greenbrier Classic golf tournament.

Officials of the PGA Tour event said Thursday the country music acts will perform Wednesday, July 1, at the State Fair of West Virginia’s amphitheater in Fairlea the day before the tournament begins at the White Sulphur Springs resort.

Concerts by Miranda Lambert and husband Blake Shelton on July 3 were previously announced.

The $129 price for a tournament badge includes admission to the golf course the entire week and a lawn seat to each concert. Other weekly badges for the tournament, golf course hospitality tents and the concerts start at $179.

Concert tickets aren’t sold separately.

Last year’s badges were $60 and included admission to one concert.

West Virginia Teens Play At Greenbrier Classic

Cole Hand and Alston Spears, two West Virginia junior golfers, will participate alongside professional golfers at this year’s Greenbrier Classic, which began Monday.

Hand and Spears were invited to play in the practice rounds and Pro-Am of the PGA Tour FedEx Cup event at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, according to a release from the Governor’s office.

Both are junior golf members of the West Virginia Golf Association.

Hand is a resident of Wheeling and attends Wheeling Park High School.  He’s a  straight-A student, captain of the school golf team and a Class AAA State Medalist.

 
Spears is a resident of Spencer and is a 2014 graduate of Roane County High School. He’ll attend West Liberty University in the fall where he’ll be a member of the Hilltopper Golf Team.

 
The official PGA Tour FedEx Cup runs through Sunday with a field of 156 world-renowned golfers vying for a $6.5 million purse.

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