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It is held at Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon in Beaumont, California. [1] The tournament started out as the Volvik Championship held in Florida in 2013, before moving to California in 2014 and changing name to the IOA Championship in 2016. In 2020, the tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
The championship has been held outside Scotland and England twice, in 1951 and 2019; Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland was the venue for both tournaments. [13] Turnberry became the most recent course to have hosted the Championship for the first time, when it held the 1977 Open Championship . [ 14 ]
It is now organized by the Florida State Golf Association (FSGA). It has been played annually since 1942 at a variety of courses around the state. There were earlier "Florida Open"s played in the 1920s and 1930s, not associated with the current version, that are considered official PGA Tour events.
The 1987 PGA Championship was the 69th PGA Championship, held August 6–9 at the Champion Course of PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. In hot and windy conditions, Larry Nelson won his second PGA Championship in a sudden-death playoff over 1977 champion Lanny Wadkins. [2] [3] [4] It was Nelson's third and final major title.
The 1981 PGA Tour, titled as the 1981 TPA Tour, was the 66th season of the PGA Tour, the main professional golf tour in the United States. It was also the 13th season since separating from the PGA of America .
The year the golf course was originally built is shown in parentheses. Prestwick Golf Club (1851): [126] Prestwick is The Open's original venue, and hosted 24 Opens in all, including the first 12. [68] Old Tom Morris designed the original 12 hole course, [126] but it was subsequently redesigned and expanded to be an 18-hole course in 1882. [127]
He plans to take a 290-acre former hunting preserve in southern Greenville County and turn it into a championship golf course open only to golfers by invitation. No houses. No pool. No tennis course.
Calcavecchia was the first American champion at The Open in six years. [8] Norman shot a course record 64 (−8) in the final round to get into the playoff. [9] In the playoff, over holes 1-2-17-18 of the course, Norman started off in the same form he had finished the main round, with birdies at the first two holes.