The Alberta Classic was a
golf tournament on the
Nationwide Tour
The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental golf tour, tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at tha ...
from 2003 to 2005. It was played in the
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
,
Alberta,
Canada area. In 2003, it was played at The Links of Glen Eagles in
Cochrane Cochrane may refer to:
Places Australia
*Cochrane railway station, Sydney, a railway station on the closed Ropes Creek railway line
Canada
* Cochrane, Alberta
* Cochrane Lake, Alberta
* Cochrane District, Ontario
** Cochrane, Ontario, a town wit ...
. In 2004 and 2005, it was played at the
Redwood Meadows Golf and Country Club near
Bragg Creek.
Tom Carter won the inaugural event in 2003, and because it was his third Nationwide Tour win of the season, he earned a promotion to the
PGA Tour. Canadian
David Hearn won the 2004 event.
Peter Tomasulo won the third and final event in 2005.
The purse each year was US$450,000, with $81,000 going to the winner.
Winners
Carter received an immediate promotion to the PGA Tour due to it being his third win of the season.
References
External links
2005 Alberta Classic preview
Former Korn Ferry Tour events
Golf tournaments in Alberta
Sports competitions in Calgary
Recurring sporting events established in 2003
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2005
2003 establishments in Alberta
2005 disestablishments in Alberta
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