Turning Stone Resort Championship

Turning Stone Resort Championship
Tournament information
Location Verona, New York
Established 2007
Course(s) Atunyote Golf Club
Par 72
Length 7,482 yards
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund $6,000,000
Month played October (2007–09)
August (2010)
Final year 2010
Tournament record score
Aggregate 270 Steve Flesch (2007)
To par −18 Steve Flesch (2007)
Final champion
United States Bill Lunde

The Turning Stone Resort Championship was a PGA Tour professional golf tournament, first played from September 20–23, 2007. It was hosted by the Atunyote Golf Club at Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York.

In 2007, it was the first of the seven Fall Series events played after the conclusion of the FedEx Cup, which was introduced the same year. The prize fund was $6 million.[1] 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 Viking Classic. After the Fall Series took a week off for The Tour Championship, 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 World Golf Championships 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.[2][3]

John Rollins won the 2006 B.C. Open, which was held at the course, when En-Joie Golf Club (now the site of the Dick's Sporting Goods Open on the Champions Tour) was unavailable due to flooding.

Winners

YearWinnerCountryScoreTo parMargin
of victory		Runner-upEarnings ($)
2010Bill Lunde United States271−171 strokeUnited States J. J. Henry720,000
2009Matt Kuchar United States271−17PlayoffUnited States Vaughn Taylor1,080,000
2008Dustin Johnson United States279−91 strokeAustralia Robert Allenby1,080,000
2007Steve Flesch United States270−182 strokesUnited States Michael Allen1,080,000

References

  1. ↑ Commissioner Finchem announces 2007 PGA Tour Fall Series schedule
  2. ↑ Turning Stone Resort leaves PGA Tour schedule
  3. ↑ Turning Stone off PGA Tour
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