PGA Tour announces '09 schedule

LOS ANGELES: The PGA Tour has released its entire schedule for next year, a fully sponsored program with a slight increase in purses despite the global financial crisis.

The line-up for the regular season was announced last month before the Fall Series, which will finalize the top 125 on the money list and playing priorities for 2010, was added on Tuesday.

Although one event still needs to be inked in for the first week of November, Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem is delighted with a calendar drawn up in a deteriorating economic climate.