The Rust-Oleum Championship 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
Web.com Tour
The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental 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 that level. Th ...
from 2014 to 2018. It was first played in June 2014 as the Cleveland Open at the Lakewood Country Club in
Westlake, Ohio
Westlake is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cleveland located 12 miles west of downtown Cleveland. The population was 34,228 at the 2020 census.
Geography
Westlake is located at (41.454439, −81.928657).
Acco ...
, a suburb of
Cleveland
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
. In 2016, it moved to
Ivanhoe Club in Ivanhoe, Illinois.
In the inaugural edition,
Steven Alker
Steven Craig Alker (born 28 July 1971) is a professional golfer from New Zealand who plays on the PGA Tour Champions, where he has won five events. He won the season-long 2022 Charles Schwab Cup on the PGA Tour Champions.
Early life and profess ...
defeated
Dawie van der Walt
Isak Dawid "Dawie" van der Walt (born 11 February 1983) is a South African professional golfer. He won twice on the European Tour in 2013, both times in South Africa, and won twice on the Web.com Tour in 2015. He currently plays on the PGA Tou ...
in an eleven-hole playoff, the longest in Web.com Tour history.
Winners
Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Web.com Tour regular-season money list.
See also
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DAP Championship
The DAP Championship was a golf tournament on the Web.com Tour from 2016 to 2018. It was played at Canterbury Golf Club in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood, Ohio. The tournament was part of the Web.com Tour Finals.
Winners
See also
*Rust-Oleu ...
, a
Web.com Tour Finals event in the Cleveland suburb of
Beachwood to begin in 2016
*
Legend Financial Group Classic
The Legend Financial Group Classic presented by Cynergies Solutions was a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour. It was played from 2005 to 2007 at Stonewater Golf Course in Highland Heights, Ohio, U.S. The 2007 purse was $525,000, with $94,50 ...
, a Web.com Tour event in the Cleveland suburb of Highland Heights from 2005 to 2007
*
Greater Cleveland Open
The Greater Cleveland Open was a golf tournament on the Buy.com Tour. It ran from 1990 to 2001. It was played at Quail Hollow Resort on the Devlin Course in Concord Township, Lake County, Ohio.
In 2001 the winner earned $76,500.
Winners
See a ...
, a Web.com Tour event from 1990 to 2001
*
Cleveland Open
The Cleveland Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It was played from 1963 to 1972 at a various courses in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area.
Host courses
Winners
See also
*DAP Championship, a Web.com Tour Finals event in the Cleveland ...
, a
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ...
event from 1963 to 1972
References
External links
Coverage on the Web.com Tour's official site
Former Korn Ferry Tour events
Golf in Ohio
Golf in Illinois
Sports competitions in Cleveland
Recurring sporting events established in 2014
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2018
2014 establishments in Ohio
2018 establishments in Ohio
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