The Panama Open 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 played from 1938 to 1982, during which time it was won by some of the biggest names in professional golf, including
Sam Snead
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and
Arnold Palmer. It was an event on the
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Aviation
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-sponsored Caribbean Tour between 1958 and 1974. Following the demise of the Caribbean Tour the tournament was not played for several years, until there was a brief revival between 1979 and 1982.
The Panama Open was revived in 1996, when it was an unofficial event on the
Canadian Tour; it became an official tournament in 2001 and 2002.
In 2003, it was an event on the
Tour de las Américas
The Tour de las Américas (TLA) was the principal men's professional golf tour throughout Latin America and the Caribbean from 2000 through to 2012 when it was superseded by PGA Tour Latinoamérica.
History
Top level tournament golf in Latin Ameri ...
, and the following year, it was co-sanctioned by the European
Challenge Tour (2005 season).
Winners
See also
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Panama Championship
Notes
References
External linksCoverage on the European Tour's official site
Golf tournaments in Panama
Former Challenge Tour events
Former Tour de las Américas events
Recurring sporting events established in 1938
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2004
1938 establishments in Panama
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