Amanda Balionis On John Deere Classic: ‘Players Love This Event’

By Dan Reardon
In the PGA TOUR’s family of tournaments, the John Deere Classic has always been the ‘little engine that could.” For all of its 47 years, the tournament has been held in one of the smallest markets on TOUR. And in recent years it’s faced the additional challenge of attracting a representative field while residing on the calendar near the Open Championship, which takes place seven time zones away.
But the Deere has not only soldiered on, it has prospered. Cel