The Gila River Golf Classic 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

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 2001 to 2005. It was played at the Wild Horse Pass Resort's Whirlwind Golf Club on the

Gila River Indian Community The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) (O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, ''meaning "Gila River People"'', Maricopa language: Pee-Posh) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the city of ...

near

Chandler, Arizona Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and a suburb in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). It is bordered to the north and west by Tempe, to the north by Mesa, to the west by Phoenix, to the ...

. The first two years it was played on the Devil's Claw course then shifted to the Cattail course for the final three years. The purse in 2005 was US$450,000, with $81,000 going to the winner.

Winners

References

* {{Former Nationwide Tour Events Former Korn Ferry Tour events Golf in Arizona Recurring sporting events established in 2001 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2005 2001 establishments in Arizona 2005 disestablishments in Arizona Gila River Indian Community