National Team Championship
Appearance
The National Team Championship, which was played under a variety of names, was a team golf tournament played from 1965 to 1972. It was an official PGA Tour event from 1968 to 1972.[1]
Tournament hosts
- 1965–1966 PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
- 1968 Quail Creek Golf & Country Club and Twin Hills Golf & Country Club, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 1970–1972 Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania (an 18-hole, par-71 championship course that opened in 1959, and was originally designed by Dick Wilson.[2][3])
Winners
- PGA Tour team event (1968–1972)
Year | Tournament name | Winners | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
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1972 | National Team Championship | Babe Hiskey and Kermit Zarley | 67-63-66-66=262 | 3 strokes | Grier Jones and Johnny Miller |
1971 | National Team Championship | Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer | 62-64-65-66=257 | 6 strokes | Julius Boros and Bill Collins Bob Charles and Bruce Devlin |
1970 | National Four-Ball Team Championship | Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer | 61-67-64-67=259 | 3 strokes | Bruce Crampton and Orville Moody Gardner Dickinson and Sam Snead George Archer and Bobby Nichols |
1969 | No tournament | ||||
1968 | PGA National Team Championship | George Archer and Bobby Nichols | 65-66-69-65=265 | 2 strokes | Monty Kaser and Rives McBee |
- Unofficial money team event (1965–1966)
Year | Tournament name | Winners | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
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1967 | No tournament | ||||
1966 | PGA Team Championship | Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer | 63-66-63-64=256 | 3 strokes | Doug Sanders and Al Besselink |
1965 | PGA National Four-ball Championship | Butch Baird and Gay Brewer | 70-60-67-62=259 | 3 strokes | Jay Hebert and Lionel Hebert |
References
- ^ "Just in ...". Golf World. 66 (10): 15. September 17, 2012.
- ^ "Tournament history from Arnold Palmer's official site". Retrieved December 24, 2007.
- ^ "Laurel Valley Golf Club". Retrieved December 24, 2007.