The Bob Hope British Classic was the original and most often used name of a
European Tour 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 which was played in England every year but one from 1980 to 1991. It had six different names in total. The English born American entertainer
Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer and dancer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 5 ...
was one of the most prominent celebrity friends of golf, and is a member of the
World Golf Hall of Fame. All of the tournaments except the first and the last were played at
Moor Park Golf Club
Moor Park Golf Club is a country club located in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. It has two eighteen-hole golf courses, the High Course and the West Course, of which the High Course has hosted many professional and elite amateur tournament ...
in Hertfordshire, just to the north of London. The best known winner was the German future
World Number 1 Bernhard Langer. In 1991 the prize fund was £252,370, which was below average for a European Tour event at that time.
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Coverage on the European Tour's official site
Golf tournaments in England
Former European Tour events
Celebrity competitions
Sport in Hertfordshire
Recurring sporting events established in 1980
Recurring events disestablished in 1991
1980 establishments in England
1991 disestablishments in England
Defunct sports competitions in the United Kingdom
Bob Hope
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