The PGA tournament in Tucson will drop...

The PGA tournament in Tucson will drop its match play format after this year’s $1-million Seiko Tucson Match Play Championship. Also after this year’s tournament, which will begin Oct. 30, the Seiko Time Corp. is expected to pull out as the tournament’s major sponsor.

Tournament chairman Carl Hazlett said Seiko is withdrawing its backing after the Seiko Tucson Match Play Championship. Hazlett said Seiko told local organizers of its move after being awarded sponsorship of the U.S. Open Tennis Championship. But a spokesman for the PGA Tour, Ric Clarson, said the Tour is still negotiating Seiko’s withdrawal from the PGA.

Hazlett said the local organizers of the Tucson PGA and LPGA tournaments, the Tucson Conquistadors, were working with the PGA to find a sponsor for a 1987 tournament, which has been scheduled for Oct. 22-25.