Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010 Players Championship (3rd nomination)
There are no subject-specific criteria for notability of golf tournaments:  only covers golfers. The tournament itself is a small-m-major event and each edition clearly generates a huge amount of media coverage that's a slam-dunk case for .  (One of the Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/2010_Players_Championship_(2nd_nomination)|previous AFDs suggests that news coverage is scant outside the USA but I found large amounts of coverage in UK media.) |Notability is not temporary, so the claim that there is no "long term notability" doesn't make sense.  In any case, sports coverage often makes passing reference to events from the past so it's likely that each tournament will continue to be mentioned occasionally. At present, the 2010 Players Championship|2010 article is mostly a list of stats, which violates  (I didn't look at the rest of them) but the fact that the article is currently in a poor state is |not a reason to delete it: it's a reason to use some of the multitude of available sources to improve it
— User:Dricherby, 11:29, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NGOLF||WP:GNG||WP:NTEMP||WP:NOTDIR||WP:CLEANUP (Wikipedia:Notability)