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MasterCard brings Apple Pay to PGA Tour event

Food and beverage concessions near the16th hole at TPC Scottsdale golf course will be contactless enabled.

If you're at this weekend's Waste Management Phoenix Open, a PGA Tour event, you'll be able to use Apple Pay thanks to a partnership between MasterCard and a catering company called Prom Management Group. 

Food and beverage concessions near the16th hole at TPC Scottsdale golf course will be contactless enabled, allowing golf fans to make payments using Apple Pay (and, presumably, Google Wallet). This will be the first PGA Tour event to accept Apple Pay, according to a press release. 

"The tournament experience lends itself well to simple, secure payments so fans get through concessions and back to the tournament quickly," said Matt Barr, group head of U.S. emerging payments for MasterCard. "We're thrilled to partner with the PGA Tour to bring contactless acceptance to stops on the 2015 schedule. Through our long-standing relationship with PGA Tour we are constantly looking for opportunities to create enhanced spectator experiences both on-course and online, whether that's through advanced payment capabilities or delivering surprises to fans."