Reno-Tahoe Open
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Reno, Nevada, United States |
| Established | 1999 |
| Course(s) | Montrêux Golf and Country Club |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,472 yards (6,832 m) |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour (alternate event) |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | $3,000,000 |
| Month played | August |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 267 Vaughn Taylor (2005) |
| To par | -21 Vaughn Taylor (2005) |
| Current champion | |
| Scott Piercy |
|
The Reno-Tahoe Open is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in northwestern Nevada. Founded in 1999, it is an alternate event played annually in August at the Montrêux Golf and Country Club, located midway between Reno and Lake Tahoe. Opened in 1997, the par-72 course was designed by Jack Nicklaus and plays at 7,472 yards (6,832 m); its average elevation is 5,600 feet (1,700 m) above sea level with an elevation change of 800 feet (240 m). The Reno-Tahoe Open gained its first title sponsor in 2007, the Legends at Sparks Marina, In 2010, the tournament name was returned to the Reno-Tahoe Open.
Until 2010, the tournament was played the same week as the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, in August. For its first three years, it had a full field of 156 players, while the World Golf Championship event had a field of about 40. When the WGC event expanded to about 80 players in 2002, the Reno-Tahoe Open's field was reduced to 132 players. In 2010, the PGA Tour announced that Reno-Tahoe Open would be played several weeks earlier, opposite the British Open, from July 15-18. This lasted only one year as it returned to the first week of August in 2011, opposite the WGC-Bridgestone.
The total purse in 2010 was $3 million, with a winner's share of $540,000.
[edit] Winners
| Year | Date | Player | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Purse ($) | Winner's share ($) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reno-Tahoe Open | |||||||||
| 2011 | Aug 7 | Scott Piercy |
72-70-61-70=273 | -15 | 1 stroke | Pat Perez |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2010 | Jul 18 | Matt Bettencourt |
66-68-75-68=277 | -11 | 1 stroke | Bob Heintz |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| Legends Reno-Tahoe Open | |||||||||
| 2009 | Aug 9 | John Rollins |
70-62-67-72=271 | -17 | 3 strokes |  Martin Laird Jeff Quinney |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2008 | Aug 3 | Parker McLachlin |
68-62-66-74=270 | -18 | 7 strokes |  Brian Davis John Rollins |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| Reno-Tahoe Open | |||||||||
| 2007 | Aug 5 | Steve Flesch |
63-69-69-72=273 | -15 | 5 strokes | Kevin Stadler Charles Warren |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2006 | Aug 27 | Will MacKenzie |
63-67-67-71=268 | -20 | 1 stroke | Bob Estes |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2005 | Aug 21 | Vaughn Taylor |
64-67-64-72=267 | -21 | 3 strokes | Jonathan Kaye |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2004 | Aug 22 | Vaughn Taylor |
67-67-69-75=278 | -10 | Playoff |  Stephen Allan Hunter Mahan Scott McCarron |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2003 | Aug 24 | Kirk Triplett |
67-68-73-63=271 | -17 | 3 strokes | Tim Herron |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2002 | Aug 25 | Chris Riley |
71-66-67-67=271 | -17 | Playoff | Jonathan Kaye |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2001 | Aug 26 | John Cook |
69-64-74-64=271 | -17 | 1 stroke | Jerry Kelly |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 2000 | Aug 27 | Scott Verplank |
69-68-71-67=275 | -13 | Playoff |  Jean van de Velde |
3,000,000 | 540,000 | |
| 1999 | Sep 29 | Notah Begay III |
70-69-63-72=274 | -14 | 3 strokes | Chris Perry David Toms |
2,750,000 | 495,000 | |
Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.
Main sources[1][2]
[edit] References
- ^ Reno-Tahoe Open - Winners - at pgatour.com
- ^ Reno-Tahoe Open - Winners - at golfobserver.com (1999-2009)
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site
- Montrêux Golf and Country Club
- Montreux Golf & Country Club at Nicklaus.com
- Aerial photo and topographic map from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps
