Small Business Connection Championship
The Small Business Connection Championship was a golf tournament on the Web.com Tour. It was played for the first time as the Chiquita Classic in July 2010 at TPC River's Bend in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] Tommy Gainey won the inaugural event in 2010 by 3 strokes at 27-under-par.
From 2013 to 2015, it was part of the Web.com Tour Finals and the field consisted of the top 75 players from the Web.Com Tour money list and the players ranked 126 to 200 on the PGA Tour's money list at the start of the Finals.[2] The tournament was moved to River Run Country Club in Davidson, North Carolina from 2013 onward and the purse was set at US$1,000,000, with $180,000 going to the winner.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Country | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Business Connection Championship at River Run (Finals) | ||||||
| 2015 | Chez Reavie |  United States |
273 | −15 | 1 stroke |  Emiliano Grillo Jamie Lovemark Steve Marino
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| Chiquita Classic (Finals) | ||||||
| 2014 | Adam Hadwin |  Canada |
270 | −18 | 2 strokes | John Peterson
|
| 2013 | Andrew Svoboda | United States |
276 | −12 | Playoff | Will MacKenzie
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| Chiquita Classic (regular season) | ||||||
| 2012 | Russell Henley | United States |
266 | −22 | Playoff | Patrick Cantlay Morgan Hoffmann
|
| 2011 | Russell Knox |  Scotland |
263 | −25 | 3 strokes | Billy Hurley III
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| 2010 | Tommy Gainey | United States |
261 | −27 | 3 strokes | Joe Affrunti
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Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the final Web.com Tour money list, in the pre-Finals era. When the event was part of the Web.com Tour Finals, all winners and runners-up earned PGA Tour cards.
References
- ^ Nationwide Tour to play new Chiquita Classic in Cincinnati Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "PGA Tour announces 2013 Web.com Tour schedule". PGA Tour. December 13, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013.