Buick Open
Golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour
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::summary Golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox golf tournament"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Buick Open |
| location | Grand Blanc, Michigan |
| establishment | 1958 |
| course | Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club |
| par | 72 |
| yardage | 7085 yd |
| tour | PGA Tour |
| format | Stroke play |
| purse | |
| month_played | July/August |
| final_year | 2009 |
| aggregate | 262 Robert Wrenn (1987) |
| to-par | −26 as above |
| final_champion | USA Tiger Woods |
| coordinates | |
| map | United States#USA Michigan |
| map_label | Warwick Hills G&CC |
| map_caption | Location in the United States##Location in Michigan |
| map_relief | yes |
| map_size | 200px |
| :: |
| name = Buick Open | image = | location = Grand Blanc, Michigan | establishment = 1958 | course = Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club | par = 72 | yardage = 7085 yd | tour = PGA Tour | format = Stroke play | purse = | month_played = July/August | final_year = 2009 | aggregate = 262 Robert Wrenn (1987) | to-par = −26 as above | final_champion = USA Tiger Woods | coordinates = | map = United States#USA Michigan | map_label = Warwick Hills G&CC | map_caption = Location in the United States##Location in Michigan | map_relief = yes | map_label_position = | map_size = 200px The Buick Open was a PGA Tour golf tournament from 1958 to 2009. In 2007, the tournament was held at the end of June, a change from its traditional spot between The Open Championship and the PGA Championship. Regardless, many prominent players used it as a "tune-up" for the subsequent major.
For the event's first decade, the Buick Open Invitational was played at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club in Grand Blanc, Michigan. After 1969, professional golf events in the area fell off the PGA Tour schedule and a series of pro-ams and other similarly unofficial events took place, mostly at Flint Golf Club in Flint, Michigan.
Flint native, and PGA touring professional Larry Mancour had returned to Michigan to play in the Buick Open and stayed to build the Grand Blanc Golf Club. He then added nine holes at the Flint Elks Golf Club where he remained the professional for 20 years. He rescued the Buick Open when General Motors dropped sponsorship of the tournament. With local Buick dealers Mancour started the Little Buick Open in 1969. It drew players and fans and led to the rebirth of the Buick Open in 1977.
The Buick Open officially made its return to the PGA Tour in 1977 at the Flint Elks Club, and in 1978 the event returned to Warwick Hills G&CC, where it remained until its demise.
The Associated Press reported July 28, 2009, that General Motors would end its sponsorship of the Buick Open after the 2009 tournament, in order to devote its marketing resources to cars and trucks. The PGA Tour replaced the tournament with the Greenbrier Classic at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
As in the 1970s, a series of pro-ams and other unofficial events now take place in Grand Blanc, with the AJGA's Randy Wise Open taking place at Warwick Hills and most pro-ams and a golf festival at the Jewel of Grand Blanc (the former Grand Blanc Golf Club).
In 2014, an unrelated tournament with the same name was started in China. The event is played on PGA Tour China.
In 2018, the former General Motors financing arm, now Ally Bank, returned to Warwick Hills to sponsor a PGA Tour Champions event, The Ally Challenge. Jim Furyk (2003, 2020) and Vijay Singh (2004, 2005, 2023) have won both events.
Long hitters
In its final years, the tournament was dominated by long hitters. Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Brian Bateman, and Kenny Perry combined for eight wins in its final nine years. Several other players ranked highly in driving distance finished second during that span, including Woods, Jason Gore, Geoff Ogilvy, Bubba Watson, and John Daly.
Winners
::data[format=table] | Year | Tour | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Winner's share ($) | Buick Open | Buick-Goodwrench Open | Buick Open | Flint Elks Open | Lake Michigan Classic | Vern Parsell Buick Open | Buick Open Invitational | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2009 | PGAT | USA Tiger Woods (3) | 268 | −20 | 3 strokes | AUS Greg Chalmers AUS John Senden USA Roland Thatcher | 918,000 | | | | | | | | | 2008 | PGAT | USA Kenny Perry (2) | 269 | −19 | 1 stroke | USA Woody Austin USA Bubba Watson | 900,000 | | | | | | | | | 2007 | PGAT | USA Brian Bateman | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | USA Woody Austin USA Jason Gore USA Justin Leonard | 882,000 | | | | | | | | | 2006 | PGAT | USA Tiger Woods (2) | 264 | −24 | 3 strokes | USA Jim Furyk | 864,000 | | | | | | | | | 2005 | PGAT | FIJ Vijay Singh (3) | 264 | −24 | 4 strokes | USA Zach Johnson USA Tiger Woods | 828,000 | | | | | | | | | 2004 | PGAT | FIJ Vijay Singh (2) | 265 | −23 | 1 stroke | USA John Daly | 810,000 | | | | | | | | | 2003 | PGAT | USA Jim Furyk | 267 | −21 | 2 strokes | USA Briny Baird USA Chris DiMarco AUS Geoff Ogilvy USA Tiger Woods | 720,000 | | | | | | | | | 2002 | PGAT | USA Tiger Woods | 271 | −17 | 4 strokes | USA Fred Funk USA Brian Gay USA Mark O'Meara MEX Esteban Toledo | 594,000 | | | | | | | | | 2001 | PGAT | USA Kenny Perry | 263 | −25 | 2 strokes | USA Chris DiMarco USA Jim Furyk | 558,000 | | | | | | | | | 2000 | PGAT | USA Rocco Mediate | 268 | −20 | 1 stroke | USA Chris Perry | 486,000 | | | | | | | | | 1999 | PGAT | USA Tom Pernice Jr. | 270 | −18 | 1 stroke | USA Tom Lehman USA Ted Tryba USA Bob Tway | 432,000 | | | | | | | | | 1998 | PGAT | USA Billy Mayfair | 271 | −17 | 2 strokes | USA Scott Verplank | 324,000 | | | | | | | | | 1997 | PGAT | FIJ Vijay Singh | 273 | −15 | 4 strokes | USA Tom Byrum USA Russ Cochran ZAF Ernie Els USA Brad Fabel JPN Naomichi Ozaki USA Curtis Strange | 270,000 | | | | | | | | | 1996 | PGAT | USA Justin Leonard | 266 | −22 | 5 strokes | USA Chip Beck | 216,000 | | | | | | | | | 1995 | PGAT | USA Woody Austin | 270 | −18 | Playoff | USA Mike Brisky | 216,000 | | | | | | | | | 1994 | PGAT | USA Fred Couples | 270 | −18 | 2 strokes | USA Corey Pavin | 198,000 | | | | | | | | | 1993 | PGAT | USA Larry Mize | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | USA Fuzzy Zoeller | 180,000 | | | | | | | | | 1992 | PGAT | USA Dan Forsman | 276 | −12 | Playoff | AUS Steve Elkington USA Brad Faxon | 180,000 | | | | | | | | | 1991 | PGAT | USA Brad Faxon | 271 | −17 | Playoff | USA Chip Beck | 180,000 | | | | | | | | | 1990 | PGAT | USA Chip Beck | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | USA Mike Donald USA Hale Irwin USA Fuzzy Zoeller | 180,000 | | | | | | | | | 1989 | PGAT | USA Leonard Thompson | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | USA Billy Andrade USA Payne Stewart USA Doug Tewell | 180,000 | | | | | | | | | 1988 | PGAT | USA Scott Verplank | 268 | −20 | 2 strokes | USA Doug Tewell | 126,000 | | | | | | | | | 1987 | PGAT | USA Robert Wrenn | 262 | −26 | 7 strokes | USA Dan Pohl | 108,000 | | | | | | | | | 1986 | PGAT | USA Ben Crenshaw | 270 | −18 | 1 stroke | USA J. C. Snead USA Doug Tewell | 90,000 | | | | | | | | | 1985 | PGAT | USA Ken Green | 268 | −20 | 4 strokes | AUS Wayne Grady | 81,000 | | | | | | | | | 1984 | PGAT | ZIM Denis Watson | 271 | −17 | 1 stroke | USA Payne Stewart | 72,000 | | | | | | | | | 1983 | PGAT | USA Wayne Levi | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | JPN Isao Aoki USA Calvin Peete | 63,000 | | | | | | | | | 1982 | PGAT | USA Lanny Wadkins | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | USA Tom Kite | 63,000 | | | | | | | | | 1981 | PGAT | USA Hale Irwin | 277 | −11 | Playoff | USA Bobby Clampett USA Peter Jacobsen USA Gil Morgan | 63,000 | | | | | | | | | 1980 | PGAT | USA Peter Jacobsen | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | USA Billy Kratzert USA Mark Lye | 45,000 | | | | | | | | | 1979 | PGAT | USA John Fought | 280 | −8 | Playoff | USA Jim Simons | 27,000 | | | | | | | | | 1978 | PGAT | AUS Jack Newton | 280 | −8 | Playoff | USA Mike Sullivan | 20,000 | | | | | | | | | 1977 | PGAT | ZAF Bobby Cole | 271 | −17 | 1 stroke | USA Fred Marti | 20,000 | | | | | | | | | 1976 | | USA Ed Sabo | 279 | −9 | Playoff | USA Randy Erskine | 12,000 | | | | | | | | | 1975 | | USA Spike Kelley | 208 | −8 | 1 stroke | USA Randy Erskine USA Jim Marshall USA Mike McCullough | 4,200 | | | | | | | | | 1974 | | USA Bryan Abbott | 136 | −8 | Playoff | USA Joe Porter | 2,000 | | | | | | | | | 1973 | | CAN Wilf Homenuik | 215 | −1 | Playoff | USA Jim Ferriell | 3,200 | | | | | | | | | 1972 | | USA Gary Groh | 273 | −15 | 2 strokes | USA John Mahaffey | 4,000 | | | | | | | | | 1970–1971: No tournament | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1969 | PGAT | USA Dave Hill | 277 | −11 | 2 strokes | USA Frank Beard | 25,000 | | | | | | | | | 1968 | PGAT | USA Tom Weiskopf | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | USA Mike Hill | 25,000 | | | | | | | | | 1967 | PGAT | USA Julius Boros (2) | 283 | −5 | 3 strokes | USA Bob Goalby USA R. H. Sikes USA Bert Yancey | 20,000 | | | | | | | | | 1966 | PGAT | USA Phil Rodgers | 284 | −4 | 2 strokes | USA Johnny Pott USA Kermit Zarley | 20,000 | | | | | | | | | 1965 | PGAT | USA Tony Lema (2) | 280 | −8 | 2 strokes | USA Johnny Pott | 20,000 | | | | | | | | | 1964 | PGAT | USA Tony Lema | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | USA Dow Finsterwald | 8,000 | | | | | | | | | 1963 | PGAT | USA Julius Boros | 274 | −14 | 5 strokes | USA Dow Finsterwald | 9,000 | | | | | | | | | 1962 | PGAT | USA Bill Collins | 284 | −4 | 1 stroke | USA Dave Ragan | 9,000 | | | | | | | | | 1961 | PGAT | USA Jack Burke Jr. | 284 | −4 | Playoff | USA Billy Casper USA Johnny Pott | 9,000 | | | | | | | | | 1960 | PGAT | USA Mike Souchak | 282 | −6 | 1 stroke | USA Gay Brewer USA Art Wall Jr. | 9,000 | | | | | | | | | 1959 | PGAT | USA Art Wall Jr. | 282 | −6 | Playoff | USA Dow Finsterwald | 9,000 | | | | | | | | | 1958 | PGAT | USA Billy Casper | 285 | −3 | 1 stroke | USA Ted Kroll USA Arnold Palmer | 9,000 | | | | | | | | ::
Notes
References
References
- (September 2010). "AP Source: GM to End Sponsorship of Buick Open". The New York Times}} {{Dead link.
- (2009-08-05). "Greenbrier Classic Announcement". Bloomberg.
- "Buick Open Winners".
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