The Small Business Connection Championship was a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament on the
Web.com Tour
The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental 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 that level. Th ...
. It was played for the first time as the Chiquita Classic in July 2010 at
TPC River's Bend in
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...
.
[Nationwide Tour to play new Chiquita Classic in Cincinnati]
Tommy Gainey
Tommy Dale Gainey (born August 13, 1975), also known as "Two Gloves", is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.
Early life and education
Gainey was born in Darlington, South Carolina. He attended the Central Carolina Technical College, ...
won the inaugural event in 2010 by 3 strokes at 27-under-par.
From 2013 to 2015, it was part of the
Web.com Tour Finals and the field consisted of the top 75 players from the Web.Com Tour money list and the players ranked 126 to 200 on the
PGA Tour
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's money list at the start of the Finals.
The tournament was moved to River Run Country Club in
Davidson, North Carolina
Davidson is a suburban town located in northern Mecklenburg and Iredell counties, North Carolina, United States, on the banks of Lake Norman. It is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The population was 10,944 at the 2010 census, and in ...
from 2013 onward and the purse was set at
US$
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1,000,000, with $180,000 going to the winner.
Winners
Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the final Web.com Tour money list, in the pre-Finals era. When the event was part of the Web.com Tour Finals, all winners and runners-up earned PGA Tour cards.
References
External links
Coverage on the Web.com Tour's official site
{{Former Web.com Tour Events
Former Korn Ferry Tour events
Golf in Ohio
Sports competitions in Cincinnati
Recurring sporting events established in 2010
2010 establishments in Ohio