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Evan Mealins, Montgomery Advertiser

PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship still planned, despite water crisis

JACKSON, Miss. — A Sanderson Farms Championship executive “absolutely” plans to hold the PGA Tour event as scheduled in Jackson.

Steve Jent, executive director of the Sanderson Farms Championship, said the Country Club of Jackson has been unaffected by the city’s water crisis since it operates its own self-sufficient water system with water from a nearby aquifer. The golf course is also in “great shape” despite overflow from a few creeks as torrential rains hit central Mississippi in late August.

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