TOKYO – The PGA Tour will hold its first official tournament in Japan. And the main sponsor of next year's event, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, is describing it as a kind of ''moonshot'' for golf in his country.
Maezawa should know.
The founder of the Japanese fashion website Zozotown, Maezawa was announced earlier this year as the first commercial passenger to attempt a flight around the moon.
''I think this will be the first PGA Tour sponsor that is going to the moon,'' he said through an interpreter Tuesday in announcing the tournament. ''I haven't decided who I will take to the moon with me yet.