Booz Allen Classic
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The Booz Allen Classic is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played annually in June in Potomac, Maryland.
Perhaps more so than any other "regular" PGA TOUR stop, the event has wandered about, not just from course to course within a given metropolitan area, but across the country. The inaugural event was played in 1968 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts before moving to Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina the following year, where it stayed until 1979. In 1980, the event moved to Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland and stayed there until 1986. Since 1987 the tournament has been held on the course at the TPC at Avenel in Potomac, although in 2005 the event returned to Congressional Country Club for one year to accommodate renovations at the TPC at Avenel. Booz Allen Hamilton is the main sponsor of the tournament.
The 2006 purse was $5,000,000, with $900,000 going to the winner. In 1992, football quarterback Mark Rypien was given a sponsor's exemption into the tournament and shot rounds of 80-91. Many up and coming players have first won here as top players often take the week off since it is the week after the US Open. For 2007, the PGA TOUR rescheduled the event for the Fall and Booz Allen has declined to renew its sponsorship.
[edit] Winners
- 2006 Ben Curtis
- 2005 Sergio García
- 2004 Adam Scott
FBR Capital Open
- 2003 Rory Sabbatini
Kemper Insurance Open
- 2002 Bob Estes
- 2001 Frank Lickliter II
- 2000 Tom Scherrer
Kemper Open
- 1999 Rich Beem
- 1998 Stuart Appleby
- 1997 Justin Leonard
- 1996 Steve Stricker
- 1995 Lee Janzen
- 1994 Mark Brooks
- 1993 Grant Waite
- 1992 Bill Glasson
- 1991 Billy Andrade
- 1990 Gil Morgan
- 1989 Tom Byrum
- 1988 Morris Hatalsky
- 1987 Tom Kite
- 1986 Greg Norman
- 1985 Bill Glasson
- 1984 Greg Norman
- 1983 Fred Couples
- 1982 Craig Stadler
- 1981 Craig Stadler
- 1980 John Mahaffey
- 1979 Jerry McGee
- 1978 Andy Bean
- 1977 Tom Weiskopf
- 1976 Joe Inman
- 1975 Raymond Floyd
- 1974 Bob Menne
- 1973 Tom Weiskopf
- 1972 Doug Sanders
- 1971 Tom Weiskopf
- 1970 Dick Lotz
- 1969 Dale Douglass
- 1968 Arnold Palmer
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