Crowne Plaza Invitational
Course: Colonial Country Club
Date: May 19-22
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
First year played: 1946
Purse: $6.2 million
Winning Share: $1,116,000
FedExCup Points: 500
Def Champ: Zach Johnson
Famed Colonial Country Club hosts the Crowne Plaza Invitational every May since 1946. |
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Crowne Plaza Invitational is a staple of the PGA Tour calendar since 1946, this fabled tournament boasts such previous winners as Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson. The notorious 5th hole at the Colonial is considered by many pro golfers to be the most difficult shot of the tour. Many of the world's top golfers have tried to master it, but few have succeeded.
The Crowne Plaza Invitational Tradition
The Colonial is an invitational golf tournament, which means that all of the players who participate are invited to play. It has been played on luxurious Colonial Country Club for many years, and is one of the few tournaments that did not changes courses over its history. Colonial is a par 70 course that measures just over 7,000 yards in length. The tournament is a normal stroke play event, with the winner being the player who cards the lowest score over 72 holes. They do play a playoff if more than one player is tied after 72 holes.
The Crowne Plaza Invitational is a restricted field event on the PGA Tour, thus only guaranteeing
invites to the first 80 players on the previous year's money list. The Invitational also has a unique
tradition for the PGA Tour. known as the Champion's Choice invitation, each year a committee of former Colonial champions selects two deserving, and otherwise ineligible, young players to compete in the
tournament.
A list of notable PGA Tour professionals making their first appearance at Colonial, by way of Champion's Choice selection, includes Al Geiberger, Tom Weiskopf, Craig Stadler, Curtis Strange, Mark O'Meara, Paul Azinger and Davis Love III. Five Champion's Choices have eventually won the tournament, but Dave Stockton is the only Champion's Choice to win the tournament in the year in which he selected (1967).
The tournament is unofficially associated with long-time Fort Worth resident Ben Hogan, the winningestColonial player of all time with five victories (1946-47, 1952-53, 1959), and in 2003 Annika Sorenstam became the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event since Babe Zaharias.
Odds to win Crowne Plaza Invitational
Crowne Plaza Invitational Winners
2011 Crowne Plaza Invitational Winner
David Toms began the tournament at Colonial with consecutive rounds of 62 before shooting a third-round 74 to get overtaken by Wi, a 39-year-old South Korean who was seeking his breakthrough win on the world’s richest golf circuit. Toms shot a 3-under-par 67 during saturday’s final round at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, to finish at 15-under par, one better than Charlie Wi.
Toms, 44, collects $1.12 million for his first victory since the 2006 Sony Open in Hawaii. It’s his 13th PGA Tour win.
2010 Crowne Plaza Invitational Winner
Zach Johnson now has a plaid jacket to go along with his green one, after an extended wait before slipping on his prize at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.
Johnson won at Hogan's Alley with a tournament record 21-under 259, sealing his victory with a pair of birdies in the short span of play in between two late weather delays Sunday.
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2010 Crowne Plaza Invitationa winner: Zach Johnson |
2009 Crowne Plaza Invitational Winner
Steve Stricker wins in playoff at Colonial. He blew a final-round lead right after he took it and gave away another stroke by missing a short par putt down the stretch. A chip-in birdie on 17 helped him get in a three-man playoff. Then, lucky to be playing a second extra hole, he put his approach just 3 feet from the cup and knocked it right in
to win the Crowne Plaza Invitational. Stricker, who earned $1,116,000, led after two rounds with a 36-hole tournament record of 126.
After five top-10s this season, including some heartbreaking losses, Steve Stricker won a sudden-deathplayoff at the 2009 Crowne Plaza Invitational.
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2009 Crowne Plaza Invitational winner: Steve Stricker |
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