The Costa Rica Open is a men's professional
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 ...
tournament that was played annually in
Costa Rica until 2007. It was an event on the
Tour de las Americas from 2002 until its replacement by the
Costa Rica Golf Classic in 2008, and was also co-sanctioned by the European
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and, as with on the main European Tour and the European Senior Tour, some of the events are played outside Europe.
History
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from 2003.
The tournament was held at the Cariari Country Club near
San José every year except in 2004 when it was played over the Valle del Sol Golf Course near
Santa Ana. The 2006 event was renamed in order to pay tribute to the tournaments founder and promoter, Kai Fieberg, who had been killed in a car accident earlier in the year.
In 1979 and 1980, Cariari hosted the
PGA sponsored Friendship Cup, which is sometimes also referred to as the Costa Rica Open. These tournaments were won by
Raymond Floyd and
Larry Ziegler
Larry Ziegler (born August 12, 1939) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour.
Ziegler was born in St. Louis and grew up in Creve Coeur, Missouri. He was one of 14 children; he had seven brothers an ...
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Winners
Notes
References
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External links
Official coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site
Golf tournaments in Costa Rica
Former Challenge Tour events
Former Tour de las Américas events