Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach
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The First Tee Open is a golf
tournament on the Champions Tour
. Normally held in August/September in Monterey, California
at the Pebble Beach Golf Links and Del Monte Golf Course, but has been moved to July. It is an official Champions tour event that pairs one junior with one champions tour player and two amateurs. Seventy-eight junior spots are awarded, seventy chosen from two selection processes and eight exemptions are selected through The First Tee of Monterey County and Monterey Peninsula Foundation, the host organization. Walmart was the title sponsor of this event from 2004 to 2009. National Association for Home Care & Hospice was the title sponsor for 2010. Nature Valley is the current title sponsor for the 2011 tournament.
The purse for the 2011 tournament was US$1,800,000, with $305,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 2004 as The First Tee Open at Pebble Beach presented by Wal-Mart. The First Tee of Monterey County is one of the direct receivers of the proceeds made from this tournament.
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Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach
Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach
The First Tee Open at Pebble Beach presented by Wal-Mart
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...
. Normally held in August/September in Monterey, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
at the Pebble Beach Golf Links and Del Monte Golf Course, but has been moved to July. It is an official Champions tour event that pairs one junior with one champions tour player and two amateurs. Seventy-eight junior spots are awarded, seventy chosen from two selection processes and eight exemptions are selected through The First Tee of Monterey County and Monterey Peninsula Foundation, the host organization. Walmart was the title sponsor of this event from 2004 to 2009. National Association for Home Care & Hospice was the title sponsor for 2010. Nature Valley is the current title sponsor for the 2011 tournament.
The purse for the 2011 tournament was US$1,800,000, with $305,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 2004 as The First Tee Open at Pebble Beach presented by Wal-Mart. The First Tee of Monterey County is one of the direct receivers of the proceeds made from this tournament.
Winners
Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach- 2011 Jeff SlumanJeff SlumanJeffrey George Sluman is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments including six PGA Tour victories.-Early years:...
Home Care & Hospice First Tee Open at Pebble Beach
- 2010 Ted SchulzTed SchulzTheodore James Schulz is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour....
Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach
- 2009 Jeff SlumanJeff SlumanJeffrey George Sluman is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments including six PGA Tour victories.-Early years:...
- 2008 Jeff SlumanJeff SlumanJeffrey George Sluman is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments including six PGA Tour victories.-Early years:...
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- 2007 Gil MorganGil MorganGilmer Bryan Morgan II, OD is an American professional golfer.Morgan was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He graduated from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma in 1968. In 1972, Morgan earned a Doctor of Optometry degree from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee before turning...
- 2006 Scott SimpsonScott Simpson (golfer)Scott William Simpson is an American professional golfer.Simpson was born in San Diego, California. He attended the University of Southern California, where he was two-time medalist at the NCAA Championship . He turned professional in 1977 and graduated in 1978...
- 2005 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...
The First Tee Open at Pebble Beach presented by Wal-Mart
- 2004 Craig StadlerCraig StadlerCraig Robert Stadler is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level....