PURE Insurance Championship
Impacting The First Tee
September 24 – 29, 2019 | Pebble Beach, California
Don’t miss golf’s greatest PGA TOUR Champions players at the PURE Insurance Championship Impacting The First Tee, September 24 – 29, 2019. The 3-day, 54-hole tournament played at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Poppy Hills Golf Course features 78 PGA TOUR Champions players, 78 junior golfers (ages 15-18) from The First Tee, and 156 amateurs.
The PGA TOUR is pleased to introduce PURE Insurance as the title sponsor of this truly unique, time-honored event. PURE is recognized nationally for its uncompromising commitment to excellence in the insurance industry, and their values pair well with our efforts in putting forth quality competition and charitable impact to create a successful partnership. Learn more about PURE.
- 2018
Tournament Winner - 2018
Pro-Junior Team Winner - 2018
Amateur Team Winner - 2017
Tournament Winner - 2017
Pro-Junior Team Winner - 2017
Amateur Team Winner
2018 Tournament Winner
Tournament Winner: Ken Tanigawa
Score: 205
Holes: 54
Making an eagle putt on the final hole, Ken Tanigawa walked off the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links with his first PGA TOUR Champions victory. A 2018 “rookie” on the tour who never played on the PGA TOUR, Tanigawa edged tour veterans Kirk Triplett and Marco Dawson by one shot.
2018 Pro-Junior Team Winner
Tournament Winner: Matthew Sutherland & Kevin Sutherland
Score: 199
Holes: 54
Tour pro Kevin Sutherland and his nephew Matthew Sutherland (son of former tour pro David Sutherland) survived a three-way scorecard playoff at 16-under-par 199 to become the first “family team” in tournament history to capture the pro-junior championship. Also finishing at 16-under were Caroline Wales with pro Stephen Ames, and Yena Jang with pro Duffy Waldorf.
2018 Amateur Team Winner
Tournament Winner: John Tracy & Shawn O'Grady
Score: 176
Holes: 54
John Tracy and Shawn O'Grady combined for a three-day total of 39-under-par 176 to take the 2018 team title by two strokes. After a first-round 62, the duo charged to the front with rounds of 56 – the low score of the tournament – and 58 Sunday at Pebble Beach Golf Links.
2017 Tournament Winner
Tournament Winner: Bernhard Langer
Score: 198
Holes: 54
Langer shattered the tournament scoring records with a winning total of 198, 17-under par, for his first career victory at Pebble Beach. The previous records for low total, as well as relationship to par, were set in 2004 by Craig Stadler, who won the Monterey Peninsula’s inaugural PGA TOUR Champions tournament with a total 201, 15-under.
2017 Pro-Junior Team Winner
Tournament Winner: Bernhard Langer & Justin Potwora
Score: 194
Holes: 54
Langer’s performance also led to him and partner Justin Potwora winning the pro-junior team competition, only the third time in tournament history that a pro won both the individual and team titles (Craig Stadler 2004, Kirk Triplett 2013). Langer and Potwora, 17, of Eugene Ore., representing The First Tee of Greater Portland, finished at 194, 21-under-par, to win by two shots.
2017 Amateur Team Winner
Tournament Winner: Michael Rubio & Kelly Jensen
Score: 177
Holes: 54
The amateur team competition wound up in a two-way tie at 177, 38-under par, with the twosome of Michael Rubio and Kelly Jensen winning in a card tiebreaker over Tager Olson Neil Hughes.
Start Of It All
The First Tee is a nonprofit youth development organization with golf programs centered on building character through Nine Core Values™: honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy and judgment.
The 78 juniors are selected annually by a national panel of judges that evaluate participants’ playing ability and comprehension of the life skills and core values learned through their involvement with The First Tee.
A Great Cause
Monterey Peninsula Foundation stages two celebrated golf tournaments: the PURE Insurance Championship a PGA TOUR Champions event, and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the PGA TOUR. Each year, the community investments that stem from each of these golf tournaments support hundreds of nonprofits working to impact thousands of lives in California’s Central Coast region.
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