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Sanderson Farms Championship

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The Sanderson Farms Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, played annually in Mississippi. It moved to the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson in autumn 2014, early in the 2015 season.

Sanderson Farms Championship
Tournament information
LocationJackson, Mississippi
Established1968
Course(s)Country Club of Jackson
Par72
Length7,461 yards (6,822 m)
Organized byCentury Club Charities
Tour(s)PGA Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$8,200,000
Month playedOctober
Tournament record score
Aggregate263 Dan Halldorson (1986)
To par−24 Scott Stallings (2012)
Current champion
United States Luke List
Location map
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Location in Mississippi

The tournament has been part of the PGA Tour schedule since 1968, and has raised more than $8.1 million for statewide charities. Originally played at the Hattiesburg Country Club in Hattiesburg, the event moved in 1994 to Annandale Golf Club in Madison, which hosted through 2013.

Since 2013, the tournament's title sponsor has been Sanderson Farms, a poultry farming corporation based in Laurel, Mississippi. The tournament's host organization, Century Club Charities, is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is promoting the game of golf for the benefit of charity. The Sanderson Farms Championship's primary charity is Friends of Children's Hospital, which benefits the Batson's Children Hospital.

Course edit

The Country Club of Jackson opened in 1914. It is a private club with 27 championship holes, 18 of which were re-designed by John Fought in 2008 and measure 7,400 yards (6,800 m) from the championship tees. Fought's layout incorporates classic Donald Ross flavor – parkland style routing with smallish, tricky greens – which range in size from 5,000 to 8,500 square feet (460 to 790 m2).

History edit

The tournament was founded as the Magnolia Classic in 1968 and retained that title through 1985, with notable winners including Roger Maltbie, Craig Stadler, and Payne Stewart. Since 1986, the tournament has had several different names under title sponsorship agreements with Deposit Guaranty (1986–1998), Farm Bureau (1999–2006), Viking (2007–2011) and Sanderson Farms (since 2013); in 2012, it was without a title sponsor and named the True South Classic.

In the past, this tournament was generally played opposite of a major or limited field tournament (officially termed an "alternate event" by the PGA Tour). It later became part of the Fall Series, a group of events held after The Tour Championship, before returning to its former status as an alternate event in 2011. In either case, the leading players in men's professional golf rarely participate. Until 1994, it was played opposite the Masters Tournament and then opposite The Open Championship in the mid-1990s. More recently, it played opposite various World Golf Championships and The Tour Championship. From 2007 to 2010, it generally played opposite the major team events involving PGA Tour players, namely the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. In 2011, it returned to the PGA Tour regular season opposite the British Open in July.

It has been an official money event on the PGA Tour since 1994. Prior to that, it was a satellite event with the money counting but the wins counting as unofficial, except from 1983 to 1985, when it was instead part of the developmental Tournament Players Series.

From 2007 to 2010, it was part of the Fall Series. Because the FedEx Cup season championship was already determined by that time, elite players generally passed on Fall Series events; most players in the tournament were trying to either make the Top 125 on the money list and retain their tour cards, or earn a quick two-year exemption by winning. The 2007 event was played in the same week as the Presidents Cup; most of the top Tour players played in that event instead of the Viking Classic. The situation was similar in 2008, with the tournament being scheduled opposite the Ryder Cup. The 2009 purse was due to be $3,700,000, with $666,000 going to the winner. That year's event was also to be the first in the tournament's recent history to be the sole event on the PGA Tour schedule for that week, as it had been moved to the end of October with a scheduled finish on November 1. However, the tournament was canceled on October 31, due to unplayable conditions at the Annandale Golf Club. The event was not rescheduled.[1] The 2010 event was again held opposite the Ryder Cup. This would be the tournament's last fall edition, as it would move into the regular season the following year. In 2013, the title sponsor changed to Sanderson Farms.[2] The tournament was not held in the 2013–14 season because of the new PGA Tour wraparound season; the 2014 tournament, part of the 2014–15 season, moved to late October and was played opposite the WGC-HSBC Champions in China.[3]

As an alternate event, the winner did not receive an invitation to the Masters Tournament, but did earn a trip to the PGA Championship, a two-year PGA Tour exemption, a minimum of 24 OWGR points, and 300 FedEx Cup points. For the 2019–20 season, the tournament was upgraded from an alternate event to a full status event; it was also rescheduled to September, as the second tournament of the PGA Tour season. Along with an increased prize fund, the changed of status meant the winner receives the full benefits of a regular PGA Tour event, with 500 FedEx Cup points and an invitation to The Masters.[4]

Over the years, the Sanderson Farms Championship has been played opposite a number of different tournaments:

Year(s) Tournament
2014–2018 WGC-HSBC Champions
1994–1998, 2011–2013 The Open Championship
2008, 2010 Ryder Cup
2007 Presidents Cup
2003–2004, 2006 WGC-American Express Championship
1999–2002, 2005 Tour Championship
1969–1993 Masters Tournament
1968 Colonial National Invitation

Winners edit

Year Tour[a] Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Purse
($)		 Winner's
share ($)		 Ref.
Sanderson Farms Championship
2023 PGAT   Luke List 270 −18 Playoff   Ludvig Åberg
  Ben Griffin
  Henrik Norlander
  Scott Stallings		 8,200,000 1,476,000
2022 PGAT   Mackenzie Hughes 271 −17 Playoff   Sepp Straka 7,900,000 1,422,000
2021 PGAT   Sam Burns 266 −22 1 stroke   Nick Watney
  Cameron Young		 7,000,000 1,260,000
2020 PGAT   Sergio García 269 −19 1 stroke   Peter Malnati 6,600,000 1,188,000
2019 PGAT   Sebastián Muñoz 270 −18 Playoff   Im Sung-jae 6,600,000 1,188,000
2018 PGAT   Cameron Champ 267 −21 4 strokes   Corey Conners 4,400,000 792,000
2017 PGAT   Ryan Armour 269 −19 5 strokes   Chesson Hadley 4,300,000 774,000
2016 PGAT   Cody Gribble 268 −20 4 strokes   Chris Kirk
  Luke List
  Greg Owen		 4,200,000 756,000
2015 PGAT   Peter Malnati 270 −18 1 stroke   William McGirt
  David Toms		 4,100,000 738,000
2014 PGAT   Nick Taylor 272 −16 2 strokes   Jason Bohn
  Boo Weekley		 4,000,000 720,000
2013 PGAT   Woody Austin 268 −20 Playoff   Cameron Beckman
  Daniel Summerhays		 3,000,000 540,000
True South Classic
2012 PGAT   Scott Stallings 264 −24 2 strokes   Jason Bohn 3,000,000 540,000
Viking Classic
2011 PGAT   Chris Kirk 266 −22 1 stroke   George McNeill
  Tom Pernice Jr.		 3,600,000 648,000
2010 PGAT   Bill Haas 273 −15 3 strokes   Michael Allen 3,600,000 648,000
2009 PGAT Canceled due to rain [1]
2008 PGAT   Will MacKenzie 269 −19 Playoff   Brian Gay
  Marc Turnesa		 3,600,000 648,000
2007 PGAT   Chad Campbell 275 −13 1 stroke   Johnson Wagner 3,500,000 630,000
Southern Farm Bureau Classic
2006 PGAT   D. J. Trahan 275 −13 Playoff   Joe Durant 3,000,000 540,000
2005 PGAT   Heath Slocum 267 −21 2 strokes   Carl Pettersson
  Loren Roberts		 3,000,000 540,000
2004 PGAT   Fred Funk (2) 266 −22 1 stroke   Ryan Palmer 3,000,000 540,000
2003 PGAT   John Huston 268 −20 1 stroke   Brenden Pappas 3,000,000 540,000
2002 PGAT   Luke Donald 201[b] −15 1 stroke   Deane Pappas 2,600,000 468,000
2001 PGAT   Cameron Beckman 269 −19 1 stroke   Chad Campbell 2,400,000 432,000
2000 PGAT   Steve Lowery 266 −22 Playoff   Skip Kendall 2,200,000 396,000
1999 PGAT   Brian Henninger (2) 202[c] −14 3 strokes   Chris DiMarco 2,000,000 360,000
Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic
1998 PGAT   Fred Funk 270 −18 2 strokes   Paul Goydos
  Franklin Langham
  Tim Loustalot		 1,200,000 216,000
1997 PGAT   Billy Ray Brown 271 −17 1 stroke   Mike Standly 1,000,000 180,000
1996 PGAT   Willie Wood 268 −20 1 stroke   Kirk Triplett 1,000,000 180,000
1995 PGAT   Ed Dougherty 272 −16 2 strokes   Gil Morgan 700,000 126,000
1994 PGAT   Brian Henninger 135[d] −9 Playoff   Mike Sullivan 700,000 126,000
1993   Greg Kraft 267 −13 1 stroke   Morris Hatalsky
  Tad Rhyan		 300,000 54,000
1992   Richard Zokol 267 −13 1 stroke   Mike Donald
  Bob Eastwood
  Mike Nicolette
  Greg Twiggs		 300,000 54,000
1991   Larry Silveira 266 −14 Playoff   Russ Cochran
  Mike Nicolette		 300,000 54,000
1990   Gene Sauers 268 −12 2 strokes   Jack Ferenz 300,000 54,000
1989   Jim Booros 199[b] −11 Playoff   Mike Donald 200,000 36,000
1988   Frank Conner 267 −13 5 strokes   Brian Mogg 200,000 36,000
1987   David Ogrin 267 −13 1 stroke   Nick Faldo 200,000 36,000
1986   Dan Halldorson 263 −17 2 strokes   Paul Azinger 200,000 36,000
Magnolia Classic
1985   Jim Gallagher Jr. 131[d] −9 Playoff   Paul Azinger 150,000 27,500 [6]
1984   Lance Ten Broeck 201 −9 Playoff   Mike Smith 150,000 27,000 [7]
1983   Russ Cochran 203[b] −7 2 strokes   Sammy Rachels 150,000 27,000 [8]
1982   Payne Stewart 270 −10 3 strokes   Jay Cudd
  Bruce Douglass		 75,000 13,500 [9]
1981   Tom Jones 268 −12 Playoff   Mike Smith 75,000 13,500 [10]
1980   Roger Maltbie 65[e] −5 1 stroke   Lee Carter 25,000[f] 4,500 [11]
1979   Bobby Walzel 272 −8 Playoff   Buddy Gardner 50,000 9,000 [12]
1978   Craig Stadler 268 −12 1 stroke   Bob Eastwood
  Bruce Fleisher		 35,000 7,000 [13]
1977   Mike McCullough 269 −11 3 strokes   Gary Groh
  Orville Moody		 35,000 7,000 [14]
1976   Dennis Meyer 271 −9 2 strokes   Artie McNickle
  Tom Purtzer		 35,000 7,000 [15][16]
1975   Bob Wynn 270 −10 2 strokes   Mike Morley 35,000 7,000 [17]
1974   Dwight Nevil (2) 133[d] −7 2 strokes   Bunky Henry
  Gil Morgan		 17,500[f] 3,500 [18]
1973   Dwight Nevil 268 −12 3 strokes   Bert Greene 35,000 7,000 [19]
1972   Mike Morley 269 −11 3 strokes   Rick Rhodes 35,000 7,000 [20]
1971   Roy Pace 270 −10 1 stroke   Jack Lewis Jr. 35,000 7,000 [21]
1970   Chris Blocker 271 −9 1 stroke   Roy Pace
  Martin Roesink		 35,000 5,000 [22]
1969   Larry Mowry 272 −8 1 stroke   Larry Hinson
  Alvin Odom		 35,000 5,000 [23]
1968   Mac McLendon 269 −11 Playoff   Pete Fleming 20,000 2,800 [24]

Multiple winners edit

Three men have won this tournament twice:

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ PGAT − PGA Tour.
  2. ^ a b c Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
  3. ^ Shortened to 54 holes because the PGA Tour suspended all play October 29 as a result of Payne Stewart's funeral.[5]
  4. ^ a b c Shortened to 36 holes due to weather.
  5. ^ Shortened to 18 holes due to weather.
  6. ^ a b Only half the original purse was paid due to weather-shortened tournament.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Viking Classic canceled after constant rains flood course". PGA Tour. October 31, 2009.
  2. ^ "Sanderson Farms becomes 2013 title sponsor for former True South Classic". PGA Tour. March 11, 2013.
  3. ^ "Sanderson Farms renews title sponsorship of PGA Tour tournament". PGA Tour. September 3, 2013.
  4. ^ Cleveland, Tyler (January 15, 2019). "Sanderson Farms golf tournament has a new date and a huge cash prize. But that's not all". Mississippi Clarion Ledger.
  5. ^ "Golfers compete with heavy hearts at Southern Farm Bureau Classic". Hattiesburg American. Mississippi. Associated Press. October 28, 1999. p. 1D – via newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Gallagher beats Azinger in Magnolia Classic playoff". St. Petersburg Times. Florida. April 16, 1985. p. 8C.
  7. ^ "Ten Broeck wins Magnolia". Wilmington Morning Star. North Carolina. AP. April 16, 1984. p. 5B.
  8. ^ "Cochran wins Magnolia Golf". TimesDaily. Florence, Alabama. UPI. April 12, 1983. p. 12.
  9. ^ "Stewart win Magnolia". TimesDaily. Florence, Alabama. UPI. April 12, 1982. p. 12.
  10. ^ "Jones Takes Magnolia Event". Evening Independent. St. Petersburg, Florida. AP. April 13, 1981. p. 8-C.
  11. ^ "Rain Halts Magnolia, Maltbie Gets Victory". The Victoria Advocate. Texas. AP. April 14, 1980. p. 3B.
  12. ^ "Walzel Wins Magnolia Golf". The Dispatch. Lexington, North Carolina. AP. April 16, 1979. p. 15.
  13. ^ "Stadler shoots 63 for victory". Boca Raton News. Florida. April 10, 1978. p. 2B.
  14. ^ "McCullough wins". The Bryan Times. Ohio. UPI. April 11, 1977. p. 15.
  15. ^ "Meyer Wins Magnolia". The Spartanburg Herald. South Carolina. AP. April 11, 1976. p. B2.
  16. ^ "Magnolia!". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. April 12, 1976. p. 18.
  17. ^ "Wynn Takes Magnolia Title". The Milwaukee Journal. Wisconsin. UPI. April 14, 1975. p. part 2–11.
  18. ^ "Nevil Wins 'Satellite' Magnolia". Schenectady Gazette. New York. AP. April 15, 1974. p. 30.
  19. ^ "Nevil wins Magnolia". Wilmington Morning Star. North Carolina. UPI. April 8, 1973. p. 1C.
  20. ^ "Morley Takes Magnolia Win". The Spartanburg Herald. South Carolina. AP. April 10, 1972. p. B2.
  21. ^ "Roy Pace Magnolia Champion". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Florida. AP. April 12, 1971. p. 2-C.
  22. ^ "Blocker Finally Blossoms". The Owosso Argus-Press. Michigan. AP. April 13, 1970. p. 20.
  23. ^ "Mowry Captures Magnolia Golf". The Palm Beach Post. Florida. UPI. April 15, 1969. p. 15.
  24. ^ "M'Lendon Wins Magnolia Golf". The Fresno Bee. California. AP. May 20, 1968. p. 5-B.

External links edit

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