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Nike Dominion Open
The Henrico County Open was a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour from 1993 to 2008. It was played at The Dominion Club in Richmond, Virginia (Thus do we reach the stars) , image_map = , mapsize = 250 px , map_caption = Location within Virginia , pushpin_map = Virginia#USA , pushpin_label = Richmond , pushpin_m ..., United States. The 2008 purse was $500,000, with $90,000 going to the winner. Winners Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the final Nationwide Tour money list. External linksPGATOUR.com tournament website Former Korn Ferry Tour events Golf in Virginia Sports in Richmond, Virginia Recurring sporting events established in 1993 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2008 {{Virginia-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female professional golfers from around the world. Organization and history Other "LPGAs" exist in other countries, each with a geographical designation in its name, but the U.S. organization is the first, largest, and best known. The LPGA is also an organization for female club and teaching professionals. This is different from the PGA Tour, which runs the main professional tours in the U.S. and, since 1968, has been independent of the club and teaching professionals' organization, the PGA of America. The LPGA also administers an annual qualifying school similar to that conducted by the PGA Tour. Depending on a golfer's finish in the final qualifying tournament, she may receive full or partial playing privil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Kuchar
Matthew Gregory Kuchar (born June 21, 1978) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and formerly the Nationwide Tour. He has won nine times on the PGA Tour. Kuchar briefly enjoyed success in the early 2000s before suffering a slump where he struggled to maintain his playing status on the PGA Tour. He rejuvenated himself and built a new, one-plane swing from 2008 onward leading to improved results. Kuchar was the PGA Tour's leading money winner in 2010. Kuchar won The Players Championship in 2012, the flagship event of the PGA Tour, his biggest tournament victory to date. As a result, he moved to a career high number five in the world rankings and has spent over 40 weeks ranked inside its top-10. In February 2013, Kuchar won his first World Golf Championship event, defeating Hunter Mahan in the final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Kuchar won the first Olympic bronze medal awarded for golf since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maginnes
John Maginnes (born July 14, 1968) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nike Tour and is currently a golf analyst with his own show on Sirius XM Radio. Playing career Maginnes joined the Nike Tour in 1994. In 1995 he picked up his first win on Tour in at the Nike San Jose Open and also earned his PGA Tour card through qualifying school. In his rookie year on Tour he came close to winning the Buick Challenge but lost in a playoff to Michael Bradley. He finished 113th on the money list and retained his Tour card for the following year. He didn't play well enough in 1997 to retain his Tour card so he split time between the PGA and Nationwide Tour in 1998, picking up a victory at the Nike Dakota Dunes Open on the Nationwide Tour. He finished fifth on the money list that year, earning him his PGA Tour card for 1999. In 1999 he recorded four top-10 finishes en route to finishing 93rd on the money list, his best finish of his career. In 2000 he didn't do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Moore (golfer)
Patrick Joseph Moore (born April 28, 1970) is an American professional golfer. Career Moore was born in Austin, Minnesota. He was a member of the PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also .... He has struggled with injuries for most of his career. He won three Buy.com Tour events in 2002 which gave him an immediate promotion to the PGA Tour. Moore has struggled with back injuries since 2003 and has played in very few tournaments since 2004, although he maintained a PGA Tour card through a medical extension through the 2014 season. Professional wins (3) Buy.com Tour wins (3) ''*Note: The 2002 Buy.com Tour Championship was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.'' See also * 2002 Buy.com Tour graduates External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Patrick American male gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zach Johnson
Zachary Harris Johnson (born February 24, 1976) is an American professional golfer who has 12 victories on the PGA Tour, including two major championships, the 2007 Masters and the 2015 Open Championship. In 2023, Johnson will captain the U.S. Ryder Cup squad against Europe in Rome, Italy. Early life The son of a chiropractor, Johnson was born in Iowa City, Iowa and raised in Cedar Rapids, the eldest of Dave and Julie Johnson's three children. Playing many sports as a youth (baseball, basketball, football, and soccer), Johnson took up golf at age 10 and developed his skills at Elmcrest Country Club. He played number-two on the Regis High School golf team and led them to an Iowa 3A state championship in 1992, his sophomore year. Following graduation from high school in 1994, Johnson enrolled at Drake University in Des Moines. As the number-two player on the Drake golf team, he led the Bulldogs to three NCAA regional meets and two Missouri Valley championships. Johnson's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Hensby
Mark Adam Hensby (born 29 June 1971) is an Australian professional golfer. Hensby was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He grew up in Tamworth, New South Wales and attended Tamworth High School, leaving at the age of 16 to work as a postie while spending most of his time on the golf course. He moved to the United States in 1994, and having initially stayed with family friends, for a time slept in his car parked at the Cog Hill Golf & Country Club near Chicago, Illinois. He won the Illinois State Amateur Championship in 1994 before turning professional the following year. He now lives in Mesa, Arizona. Hensby played on what is now the Korn Ferry Tour (formerly named the web.com Tour, Nationwide Tour, the Buy.com Tour, the Nike Tour, and the Ben Hogan Tour) for several years from 1997 before he graduated to the PGA Tour for the 2001 season. He gained his place on the elite tour by virtue of his 2nd-place finish on the Buy.com Tour money list in 2000. In his rookie season, Hensby did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Nationwide Tour
The 2003 Nationwide Tour season ran from February 27 to November 2. The season consisted of 26 official money golf tournaments in the United States and four elsewhere. The top 20 players on the year-end money list earned their PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ... card for 2004. Schedule The following table lists official events during the 2003 season. Money leaders ''For full rankings, see 2003 Nationwide Tour graduates.'' The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars. The top 20 players on the tour earned status to play on the 2004 PGA Tour. See also * 2003 Nationwide Tour graduates Notes External linksSchedule {{Web.com Tour seasons Korn Ferry Tour seasons Nationwide Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin Langham
Franklin Langham (born May 8, 1968) is an American professional golfer. Langham was born in Thomson, Georgia. He played golf at the University of Georgia from 1989 to 1991 and was named an All-American in 1991. He played on the 1991 Walker Cup team. Langham played on the PGA Tour in 1996, 1998-2002 and 2005 and on the Nationwide Tour in 1993-95, 1997, 2003–04 and 2006–08. He has three victories on the Nationwide Tour and has had finished runner-up on four occasions in PGA Tour events. He best finish on the PGA Tour money list was 26th in 2000. His best finish at a major was 7th place at the 2000 PGA Championship. The 2008 season saw Langham's final year on the Nationwide Tour. Professional wins (5) Nationwide Tour wins (3) Nationwide Tour playoff record (1–3) Other wins (2) *1989 Georgia Open (as an amateur) *1992 Georgia Open Results in major championships CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = Tied ''Note: Langham never played in The Open Championship.'' Results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Green (golfer)
Nathan Andrew Green (born 13 May 1975) is an Australian professional golfer. Born in New South Wales' second-most-populous city, Newcastle, Nathan Green turned professional in 1998. During his early career, he played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia, and the Canadian Tour during the Australian winter. In 2000 he won the Queensland PGA Championship in Australia, and the Benefit Partners/NRCS Classic in Canada. Having failed to gain his PGA Tour card through the qualifying school, Green competed on the second tier Nationwide Tour in the United States in 2002, 2004 and 2005. He ended the 2005 season 18th on the money list, which enabled him to graduate directly to the PGA Tour for 2006. He finished 5th in his first event on the PGA Tour, and in his second, the Buick Invitational, he made his way into a playoff for the title against Tiger Woods and José María Olazábal, but was eliminated at the first extra hole. He finished the year ranked inside the top 50 on the money li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Nationwide Tour
The 2004 Nationwide Tour season ran from February 5 to October 31. The season consisted of 31 official money golf tournaments; five of which were played outside of the United States. The top 20 players on the year-end money list earned their PGA Tour card for 2005. Schedule The following table lists official events during the 2004 season. Money leaders ''For full rankings, see 2004 Nationwide Tour graduates.'' The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars. The top 20 players on the tour earned status to play on the 2005 PGA Tour. See also *2004 Nationwide Tour graduates __NOTOC__ This is a list of players who graduated from the Nationwide Tour in 2004. The top 20 players on the Nationwide Tour's money list in 2004 earned their PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officia ... Notes References External linksSchedule {{Web.com Tour seasons Korn Ferry Tour seasons Nationwide Tour [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Scherrer
Thomas Cregg Scherrer (born July 20, 1970) is an American professional golfer. Scherrer was born in Syracuse, New York and grew up in Skaneateles, New York. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He played for the American team in the 1991 Walker Cup. He lost to Justin Leonard in the finals of the 1992 U.S. Amateur. Scherrer turned professional in 1992, and has spent a relatively equal amount of time on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour. He was a member of the PGA Tour in 1996, 1999–2003, and in 2008; he played on the Nationwide Tour from 1994–1995, 1997–1998, 2004–2007 and in 2009. He has one PGA Tour victory, the 2000 Kemper Insurance Open and three Nationwide Tour wins. Amateur wins (1) *1990 North and South Amateur Professional wins (4) PGA Tour wins (1) Nationwide Tour wins (3) ''*Note: The 1998 Nike Upstate Classic was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.'' Nationwide Tour playoff record (1–4) Results in major championships CUT = mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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