The Turning Stone Resort Championship was a

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tournament, first played from September 20–23, 2007. It was hosted by the Atunyote Golf Club at

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. In 2007, it was the first of the seven

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events played after the conclusion of the

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, which was introduced the same year. The prize fund was $6 million. The tournament's timing in the PGA Tour calendar changed in 2008: The 2008 Fall Series began before the conclusion of the FedEx Cup with the

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. After the Fall Series took a week off for

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, it resumed with the Turning Stone Championship. In 2009, the Turning Stone Resort Championship was played the week after The Tour Championship. In 2010, the event moved to August and become part of the main PGA Tour season, although it was an "alternate" event scheduled opposite a

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tournament, specifically the Bridgestone Invitational. It was dropped from the PGA Tour schedule in 2011 when event organizers and the Tour could not agree on a stand-alone date for the tournament.Turning Stone off PGA Tour
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, which was held at the course, when En-Joie Golf Club (now the site of the

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on the Champions Tour) was unavailable due to flooding.

Winners

References

External links

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Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site
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