Buick Open
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Jul 30-Aug 2). Second-placed Roland Thatcher (USA), John Senden (Aus) and Greg Chalmers (Aus) finished 3 shots behind Tiger Woods (USA), who his third win in this event and 69th PGA Tour victory overall. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (June 26-29). Second-placed Woody Austin (USA) and Bubba Watson (USA) finished 1 shot behind Kenny Perry (USA), who recorded a second win in his last four starts on the PGA Tour. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Jun 28-Jul 1). Second-placed Jason Gore (USA), Justin Leonard (USA) and Woody Austin (USA) finished 1 shot behind 34-year-old Brian Bateman (USA), who recorded his first and only PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 3-6). Second-placed Jim Furyk (USA) finished 3 shots behind Tiger Woods (USA), who recorded his 50th PGA Tour win. 30-year-old Woods became the youngest player to achieve this milestone, eclipsing Jack Nicklaus who achieved the same feat aged 33 yrs. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (July 28-31). Second-placed Tiger Woods (USA) and Zach Johnson (USA) finished 4 shots behind defending champion Vijay Singh (Fiji), who became the first three-time winner of the Buick Open. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Jul 29-Aug 1). Second-placed John Daly (USA) finished 1 shot behind Vijay Singh (Fiji). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Jul 31-Aug 3). Second-placed Briny Baird (USA), Chris DiMarco (USA), Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) and defending champion Tiger Woods (USA) finished 2 shots behind Furyk (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 8-11). Second-placed Fred Funk (USA), Brian Gay (USA), Mark O'Meara (USA) and Esteban Toledo (Mex) finished 4 shots behind Tiger Woods (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 9-12). Second-placed Chris DiMarco (USA) and Jim Furyk (USA) finished 2 shots behind Kenny Perry (USA). In the final round Billy Mayfair (USA) shot an 11-under 61, including a back-nine of 27. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 10-13). Second-placed Chris Perry (USA) finished 1 shot behind Rocco Mediate (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 5-8). Second-placed Tom Lehman (USA), Bob Tway (USA) and Ted Tryba (USA) finished 1 shot behind 39-year-old Tom Pernice Jr (USA). Playing in his 213th PGA Tour event, Pernice recorded the first of his two PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 6-9). Second-placed Scott Verplank (USA) finished 2 shots behind Billy Mayfair (USA), who recorded the last of his five PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 7-10). Second-placed Curtis Strange (USA), Tom Byrum (USA), Russ Cochran (USA), Brad Fabel (USA), Ernie Els (RSA) and Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki (Jpn) finished 4 shots behind Vijay Singh (Fiji), who recorded his fifth PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 1-4). Second-placed Chip Beck (USA) finished 5 shots behind 24-year-old Justin Leonard (USA), who recorded his first PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 3-6). 31-year-old Woody Austin (USA) beat Mike Brisky (USA) with a par at the second playoff hole, to record his first PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 4-7). Second-placed Corey Pavin (USA) finished 2 shots behind Fred Couples (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 5-8). Second-placed Fuzzy Zoeller (USA) finished 1 shot behind Larry Mize (USA), who recorded the last of his four PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 6-9). Dan Forsman (USA) beat Steve Elkington (Aus) with a par at the second playoff hole. Defending champion Brad Faxon (USA) was eliminated at the first playoff hole. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 1-4). Brad Faxon (USA) beat defending champion Chip Beck (USA) with a par at the first playoff hole, to record his first PGA Tour win. Faxon celebrated his 30th birthday on the opening day. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Jul 26-29). Second-placed Hale Irwin (USA), Fuzzy Zoeller (USA) and Mike Donald (USA) finished 1 shot behind Chip Beck (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (July 27-30). Second-placed Payne Stewart (USA), Doug Tewell (USA) and Billy Andrade (USA) finished 1 shot behind Leonard Thompson (USA), who recorded the last of his three PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (July 28-31). Second-placed Doug Tewell (USA) finished 2 shots behind Scott Verplank (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Jul 23-26). Second-placed Dan Pohl (USA) finished 7 shots behind 27-year-old Robert Wrenn (USA), who recorded his first and only PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (July 24-27). Second-placed Doug Tewell (USA) and J.C. Snead (USA) finished 1 shot behind Ben Crenshaw (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 14-18). Second-placed Wayne Grady (Aus) finished 4 shots behind 27-year-old Ken Green (USA), who recorded the first of his five PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 9-12). Second-placed Payne Stewart (USA) finished 1 shot 28-year-old Denis Watson (Zim), who recorded the first of his three PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 11-14). Second-placed Calvin Peete (USA) and Isao Aoki (Jpn) finished 1 shot behind Wayne Levi (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 19-22). Second-placed Tom Kite (USA) finished 1 shot behind Lanny Wadkins (USA), who recorded his tenth PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Aug 20-23). Hale Irwin (USA) beat Bobby Clampett (USA), Gil Morgan (USA) and defending champion Peter Jacobsen (USA) with a birdie at the second playoff hole. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Goodwrench Open (Aug 21-24). Second-placed Billy Kratzert (USA) and Mark Lye (USA) finished 1 shot behind 26-year-old Peter Jacobsen (USA), who recorded his first PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Goodwrench Open (Sept 13-16). 25-year-old John Fought USA) beat Jim Simons (USA) with a par at the second playoff hole, to record the first of his two PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Goodwrench Open (June 15-18). 28-year-old Jack Newton (Aus) beat Mike Sullivan (USA) with a 15-foot birdie putt at the first playoff hole, to record his first PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open (Sept 1-4; first time as a full PGA Tour event since 1969). Second-placed Fred Marti (USA) finished 1 shot behind 29-year-old Bobby Cole (RSA), who recorded his first and only PGA Tour win. [Flint Elks CC, Grand Blanc, nr Flint, Michigan].
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Played as the Buick Open (Aug 26-29; PGA Second Tour event). Ed Sabo (USA) beat Randy Erskine (USA) with a birdie four at the third playoff hole. [Flint Elks CC, Grand Blanc, nr Flint, Michigan].
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Played as the Buick Open (June 19-21; 54-hole PGA Second Tour event). Randy Erskine (USA), Jim Marshall (USA) and Mike McCullough (USA) finished 1 shot behind Spike Kelley (USA). [Flint Elks CC, Grand Blanc, nr Flint, Michigan].
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Played as the Flint Elks Open (June 20/21; 36-hole PGA Second Tour event). Bryan Abbott (USA) beat Joe Porter (USA) in a playoff. [Flint Elks CC, Grand Blanc, nr Flint, Michigan].
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Played as the Lake Michigan Classic (June 29/30; 54-hole PGA satellite tour event). Wilf Homenuik (Can) beat Jim Ferriell (USA) with a par at the first playoff hole. [Benton Harbor Elks CC, Benton Harbor, Michigan].
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Vern Parcell Buick
Played as the Vern Parsell Buick Open (July 27-30; PGA satellite tour event). John Mahaffey (USA) finished 2 shots behind Gary Groh (USA), who recorded his first significant win as a professional with an 80-foot chip-in birdie at the final hole. [Flint Elks CC, Grand Blanc, nr Flint, Michigan].
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Buick Open not played in 1971.
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Buick Open not played in 1970.
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (July 3-6; last time as a full PGA Tour event until 1977). Second-placed Frank Beard (USA) finished 2 shots behind Dave Hill (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (July 4-7). Second-placed Mike Hill (USA) finished 1 shot behind Tom Weiskopf (USA), who recorded his second PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (June 8-11). Second-placed R.H. Sykes (USA), Bert Yancey (USA) and Bob Goalby (USA) finished 3 shots behind Julius Boros (USA), who won this event for the second time. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (June 9-12). Second-placed Johnny Pott (USA) and Kermit Zarley (USA) finished 2 shots behind Phil Rodgers (USA), who recorded the last of his five PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (June 3-6). Second-placed Johnny Pott (USA) finished 2 shots behind defending champion Tony Lema (USA), who recorded his tenth PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (June 11-14). Second-placed Dow Finsterwald (USA) finished 1 shot behind Tony Lema (USA). This was the second of four PGA Tour wins recorded by Lema in the space of a hugely successful six weeks on the Tour. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (June 6-9). Second-placed Dow Finsterwald (USA) finished 5 shots behind Julius Boros (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (July 5-8). Second-placed Dave Ragan (USA) finished 1 shot behind Bill Collins (USA), who recorded the last of his four PGA Tour wins. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (Jun 29-Jul 3). Jack Burke Jr (USA) beat Billy Casper (USA) and Johnny Pott (USA) in an 18-hole Monday playoff (Burke 71, Casper 74, Pott 74). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (July 1-4). Second-placed Gay Brewer (USA) and defending champion Art Wall Jr (USA) finished 1 shot behind Mike Souchak (USA). [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the Buick Open Invitational (July 2-5, 7). Art Wall Jr (USA) beat Dow Finsterwald (USA) in an 18-hole Tuesday playoff (Wall 71, Finstwerwald 73). Wall recorded his tenth PGA Tour win. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
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Buick
Played as the inaugural Buick Open Invitational (June 19-23). Second-placed Arnold Palmer (USA) and Ted Kroll (USA) finished 1 shot behind Billy Casper (USA). This event marked Buick becoming the first corporate sponsor on the PGA Tour. Monday finish required after Friday second round was rained out. [Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan].
Tournaments:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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