PGA Tour, Deere & Company, Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation: Announce that John Deere has signed a multiyear extension as title sponsor of the John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. Since the tournament’s inception in 1971, the John Deere Classic has helped raise $159.57 million for charity, 98 percent of which has been raised since John Deere assumed title sponsorship in 1998.