The Cologuard Classic is a professional golf tournament in Arizona on the PGA Tour Champions . It debuted in 2015 at the Catalina Course of Omni Tucson National. The event moved several miles east to La Paloma Country Club in 2024 .
10-639: The Tucson Open was a fixture on the PGA Tour for over six decades, from 1945 through 2006 , and was often held at the Catalina Course, which opened in 1961. Tucson hosted the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship for eight years in nearby Marana , from 2007 through 2014 . La Paloma Country Club Ridge course is the first nine holes, then Canyon (1,2,3,4,8,9) and Hill (3,4,9) The approximate elevation at
20-634: The Omni Tucson National Golf Resort in late February, with a $ 3 million purse and a $ 540,000 winner's share. Since the event's inception in 1945, it had been played at a series of courses in Tucson. The first eighteen editions were at El Rio Golf & Country Club, which was purchased by the city in 1968 and is now El Rio Golf Course. In 1963 , the event moved to Forty Niner Country Club in 1963 for two years, then began its lengthy relationship with its last location, known at
30-610: The Tucson National GC was the other course used. In 1997 , the event changed to the more traditional format of 72 holes played at only one course, and has been played since that year at the renamed Omni Tucson National Golf Resort & Spa. In later years, it was an alternate event, opposite the WGC Match Play championship, then held at La Costa in Carlsbad, California . Because the top 64 ranked players in
40-437: The clubhouse is 2,720 feet (830 m) above sea level . Omni Tucson National Resort, Catalina Course (2015―2023) Opened 63 years ago in 1961, the Catalina Course was designed by Robert Bruce Harris, and redesigned in 1983 by Robert Van Hagge and Bruce Devlin . Holes No. 7 and 8 were relocated and redesigned by Tom Lehman in 2005. The fairways are Tifway 419 pollen-free Bermuda grass , over-seeded with winter rye ;
50-508: The greens are Champion Bermuda. The approximate average elevation is 2,320 feet (705 m) above sea level. 32°19′01″N 110°54′58″W / 32.317°N 110.916°W / 32.317; -110.916 Tucson Open The Tucson Open was a golf tournament in Arizona on the PGA Tour from 1945 to 2006 , played annually in the winter in Tucson . It was last held at
60-568: The time as Tucson National Golf Club, which hosted through 1978 . It moved to Randolph Park Golf Course in 1979 , returned to Tucson National in 1980 , then back to Randolph Park for the next six. From 1984 to 1986, the Tucson Open was contested at match play and was held concurrently with a Senior PGA Tour match play event, the Seiko-Tucson Senior Match Play Championship The 1986 event
70-914: The world are invited to the WGC event, it weakened the field considerably for Tucson. The match play tournament moved to Tucson in 2007 as a "merging" of sorts between the two tournaments, and stayed through 2014 . On the PGA Tour Champions , the Tucson Conquistadores Classic made its debut in 2015 , and is held at the Omni Tucson National Resort in mid-March. Nine men won this tournament more than once. 32°21′29″N 111°01′23″W / 32.358°N 111.023°W / 32.358; -111.023 2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship The 2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
80-476: Was played using a Medal match play format. In 1987 and 1988 the event was played at the TPC at Starr Pass but was not held in 1989 . When the event resumed in 1990 , it was played at two courses each year from that year's event until 1996 . One used every year was the TPC at Starr Pass (renamed Starr Pass Golf Club before the 1993 event). The TPC at Starr Pass shared time with Randolph Park in 1990; from 1991–96
90-501: Was the 16th WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship , held February 19–23 at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona , northwest of Tucson . It was the first of four World Golf Championships in 2014 . With a field of 64 competitors, the five-day six-round event began on Wednesday, with the semifinals and finals on Sunday. Jason Day won his first WGC title at the 23rd hole of the final match with Victor Dubuisson . This
100-611: Was the eighth and final edition of the championship contested in Marana, the host since 2007 . The tournament moved back to California in 2015 , held in early May at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco , and went to Austin, Texas , in March 2016 . This was also the final edition in which the entire tournament was single-elimination, as the first two rounds were replaced by round-robin play in 2015, with sixteen players advancing to
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