The Showdown at Somerby was a regular
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 on the
Nationwide Tour. It was played at Troy Burne Golf Club in
Hudson, Wisconsin
Hudson is a city in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, its population was 12,719. It is part of the Minneapolis–St. Paul Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The village of North Hudson is direct ...
in 2004 and 2005 and moved to the
Somerby Golf Club in
Byron, Minnesota
:''There are also two Byron Townships in Minnesota.''
Byron is a city in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, approximately west of Rochester on U.S. Route 14. It is surrounded by Kalmar Township. The population was 6,312 at the 20 ...
for 2006 and 2007. It was cancelled after four years because of a lack of corporate sponsorship.
Somerby loses Nationwide Tour event
'PostBulletin'', August 7, 2007
The title sponsor from 2004 to 2006 was Scholarship America
Scholarship America is a Minnesota-based American philanthropic organization that assists communities, corporations, foundations and individuals with fundraising, managing and awarding scholarships to students. The organization designs, adminis ...
, which is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) charity that is the largest provider of scholarships for postsecondary education in the country. The presenting sponsor for the 2007 tournament was Think Mutual Bank.
The 2007 purse was $500,000, with $90,000 going to the winner.
Winners
Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the final Nationwide Tour money list.
References
External links
Archive of official sitePGATOUR.com tournament siteScholarship America(SM)'s official site
Former Korn Ferry Tour events
Golf in Minnesota
Recurring sporting events established in 2004
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2007
Golf in Wisconsin
2004 establishments in Wisconsin
2007 disestablishments in Minnesota
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