Boone Valley Classic
Encyclopedia
The Boone Valley Classic was a golf
tournament on the Champions Tour
from 1996 to 2001. It was last played in Augusta, Missouri
at the Boone Valley Golf Club. The event was played at stroke play
except that the last event, called the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship, was contested at both stroke play and match play
. This event featured two days of stroke play, after which the field was cut to the top 16 players. These 16 competed at match play in morning and afternoon matches the last two days of the tournament.
The purse for the 2001 tournament was US$2,000,000, with $300,000 going to the winner.
Boone Valley Classic
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament on the Champions Tour
Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...
from 1996 to 2001. It was last played in Augusta, Missouri
Augusta, Missouri
Augusta is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 218 at the 2000 census. The town boasts wineries, antique shops, retaurants, B&B's, a wood shop, a glass studio, massage therapy, and The Augusta Brewery....
at the Boone Valley Golf Club. The event was played at stroke play
Stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf. It involves counting the total number of strokes taken on each hole during a given round, or series of rounds...
except that the last event, called the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship, was contested at both stroke play and match play
Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
. This event featured two days of stroke play, after which the field was cut to the top 16 players. These 16 competed at match play in morning and afternoon matches the last two days of the tournament.
The purse for the 2001 tournament was US$2,000,000, with $300,000 going to the winner.
Winners
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship- 2001 Leonard ThompsonLeonard Thompson (golfer)Leonard Stephen Thompson is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour....
Boone Valley Classic
- 2000 Larry NelsonLarry NelsonLarry Gene Nelson is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.Nelson was born in Fort Payne, Alabama and grew up in Acworth, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta...
- 1999 Hale IrwinHale IrwinHale S. Irwin is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few players in history to have won three U.S. Opens and was one of the world's leading golfers for much of the 1970s and 1980s. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri, but was...
- 1998 Larry NelsonLarry NelsonLarry Gene Nelson is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.Nelson was born in Fort Payne, Alabama and grew up in Acworth, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta...
- 1997 Hale IrwinHale IrwinHale S. Irwin is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few players in history to have won three U.S. Opens and was one of the world's leading golfers for much of the 1970s and 1980s. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri, but was...
- 1996 Gibby GilbertGibby GilbertC.L. "Gibby" Gilbert II is an American professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour....