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The Farmers Insurance Open is an annual professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, held in San Diego, California. Founded in 1952, the tournament has been held at Torrey Pines Golf Course, a 36-hole municipal facility in La Jolla, since 1968. The tournament is held in the early part of the season known as the "West Coast Swing".
Jack Nicklaus, three-time Open Champion in 1966, 1970, and 1978 Seve Ballesteros, three-time Open Champion in 1979, 1984, and 1988 Nick Faldo, three-time Open Champion in 1987, 1990, and 1992 Tiger Woods, three-time Open Champion in 2000, 2005, and 2006. He is one of six champions to win wire-to-wire after 72-holes played with his victory in 2005.
The second was the Big Break Invitational, a golf tournament held at Reynolds Lake Oconee, in collaboration with The Golf Channel, on September 30, 2014 - October 3, 2014 in Eatonton, GA. The event was held on the Jack Nicklaus designed Great Waters course along the shores of Lake Oconee.
The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States. It is the third of the four men's major golf championships, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour.
Royal Liverpool Golf Club hosted the event for the first time in 1897. Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club became the next course to host the event in 1909. The course hosted a further championship in 1920, but further attempts to host the Championship in 1938 and 1949 were thwarted by bad weather and the course was dropped from the rota. [9]
The 2015–16 PGA Tour was the 101st season of the PGA Tour, the main professional golf tour in the United States. It was also the 48th season since separating from the PGA of America, and the 10th edition of the FedEx Cup.
The Old Course at St Andrews is regarded as the oldest golf course in the world, and winning the Open there is widely considered to be one of the pinnacles of achievement in golf. [67] Given the special status of the Old Course, the Open is generally played there once every five years in the modern era, much more frequently than the other ...
The PGA is one of the four men's major golf championships, the others being The Open, the Masters and the U.S. Open. It was formerly played in mid-August on the third weekend before Labor Day weekend, serving as the fourth and final men's major of the golf season.