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Shriners Open Attendance Announced at Nearly 73,000 in Las Vegas

Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

The big leagues of professional golf brought more than 70,000 fans to TPC Summerlin for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

The event’s attendance was 72,842, a healthy increase over last year’s attendance of 54,225.

Kevin Na won the $1.26 million winner’s share in a playoff Sunday. The event’s total purse was $7 million in prize money.

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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