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(Reuters) - A revamped WGC-Match Play Championship will take a leaf out of the World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil when it is staged for the first time at the TPC Harding Park in San Francisco next year. Apart from a change of venue, organizers hope that a "World Cup-type format" will breath new life into the first of the season's four elite World Golf Championships (WGC) events where so often in the past the top players have made early exits. "We're going to do it differently next year," PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem told a news conference on Wednesday after Harding Park had been announced as the venue for the 2015 edition. "It's kind of nice that we're able to talk about that in the context of everybody in the United States being riveted to that format over the last month in Brazil where we'll be playing golf in the Olympics for the first time in '16." Golf will be returning to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 when the Rio de Janeiro Games are held in 2016.
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