NATIONWIDE TOUR
There have been dozens of
« IT’S AN INCREDIBLY STRONG TOUR. EVERY
answers to that question now
YEAR YOU’RE ASKING, ‘WHO’S NEXT?’ »
that the Nationwide Tour has
— Jeff Sanders
completed two decades.
than $16 million. John Daly was highly competitive Tour that’s
Nationwide winners a Nationwide Tour player that able to stand on its own legs.
Jeff Maggert was the Nationwide inaugural year and quickly blasted We’ve got players who are ready
Tour’s inaugural Player of the Year, onto the national scene by winning for the PGA TOUR. The problem
winning the title in 1990 along the 1991 PGA Championship. is, we don’t have the room for all
with the Knoxville Open (another David Duval, Tom Lehman, of them. When our guys get there,
of the four original tournaments Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, David Toms, they perform.”
still existent). He moved on to Stewart Cink, Chad Campbell
the PGA TOUR and since has and Camilo Villegas are among Looking back
won three tournaments and more the Nationwide Tour alumni who The Nationwide Tour was originally
had collected 260 PGA TOUR known as the Ben Hogan Tour as it
titles through 2009. was underwritten by the equipment
Daly followed his PGA company founded and owned by
Championship win in 1991 with Hogan, the World Golf Hall of
a British Open title in 1995; Els Famer who keenly remembered
collected the 1994 and 1997 U.S. his days as a struggling young pro.
Opens and the 2002 British Open; Its first 30 tournaments offered a
Nationwide Tour graduate
and Johnson was the 2007 Masters purse of approx. $100,000 each.
Stewart Cink won a
memorable 2009 British Open.
champion—giving Nationwide Subsequent Tour sponsors were
Tour alumni a sweep of golf’s Nike (1993-99) and Buy.
four major championships. Lucas com (2000-02) until
Glover added the U.S. Open title Nationwide took
and Stewart Cink the British over the umbrella
Open in 2009. THE PLAYERS sponsorship and
Championship has three is the longest-
Zach Johnson
also won a major
Nationwide Tour alumni on its running sponsor in
championship, winning
the 2007 Masters.
victors’ roll: Stephen Ames, Craig the circuit’s history,
Perks and David Duval. extending recently
20 Greatest Moments “We never thought 20 years through 2012.
IMAGES
One of the cornerstones of the Nationwide
ago we’d get to this point,” Calfee The escalation of
Tour’s 20th birthday was its compilation
says. “It was transitional and the Nationwide Tour
of “20 Greatest Moments” over those two
HALLERAN/GETTY
decades. They are an impressive list of
developmental years ago when is shown through those
SCOTT
feats, including Daniel Chopra shooting
we started. Now it has some of who have experienced
30-under over 72 holes to win in 2004;
GREENWOOD,
Notah Begay III firing a 59 in 1998; Omar
those aspects, but it’s really a its growth.
SAM Uresti making nine straight birdies in
TOUR;
1994; and Jack Nicklaus being joined
by his four sons in competing in a 2003
tournament, with Pop being the only one
click to show/hide
BADZ/PGA
Bill Calfee, President of
AN
ST of the five to make the cut.
Graduates to the 2010 PGA TOUR
the Nationwide Tour.
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