The Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank is a professional
golf
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tournament on the
Korn Ferry Tour
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, played at
Oakridge Country Club in
Farmington, Utah
Farmington is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. The population was 24,531 at the 2020 census. The Lagoon Amusement Park and Station Park transit-oriented retail center (which includes a FrontRunner train station) are located in Far ...
.
One of the original tournaments of the 1990
Ben Hogan 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. ...
as the Utah Classic, the tournament has been played every year but two (1997, 1998). The first seven (1990–1996) were played in
Provo at Riverside Country Club and the next sixteen (1999–2014) at Willow Creek in
Sandy.
Formerly played in early September, the tournament moved to late July in
2011 and to mid-July in
2012
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. It moved to Thanksgiving Point Golf Club in
Lehi in
2015, a few miles north of
Utah Lake
Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the center of Utah County, Utah, United States. It lies in Utah Valley, surrounded by the Provo- Orem metropolitan area. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Salt ...
and along the
Jordan River. In
2017
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, the tournament moved north to Oakridge Country Club in Farmington, between
Salt Lake City
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and
Ogden; its average
elevation
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is slightly under above
sea level
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.
Two
major champions have won this event:
John Daly won
$20,000 in the inaugural edition in 1990,
and
Zach Johnson
Zachary Harris Johnson (born February 24, 1976) is an American professional golfer who has 12 victories on the PGA Tour, including two major championships, the 2007 Masters and the 2015 Open Championship.
In 2023, Johnson will captain the U. ...
won $81,000 in
2003.
The purse in
2018
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was $700,000, with a winner's share of $126,000.
Winners
Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Korn Ferry Tour regular-season money list.
Notes
References
External links
*
Coverage on the Korn Ferry Tour's official siteThanksgiving Point Golf Club(2015– )
Willow Creek Country Club(1999–2014)
Riverside Country Club(1990–1996)
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Korn Ferry Tour events
Golf in Utah
Recurring sporting events established in 1990
1990 establishments in Utah