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Tournament information | |
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Location | Kansas City, Missouri |
Established | 2009 |
Course(s) | Blue Hills Country Club |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,364 yards (6,734 m) |
Tour(s) | Korn Ferry Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$1,000,000 |
Month played | May |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 258 James Nitties (2011) 258 Martin Piller (2015) |
To par | −22 Sepp Straka (2018) |
Current champion | |
Harry Higgs | |
Location map | |
Location in the United States Location in Missouri |
The AdventHealth Championship is a Korn Ferry Tour event that was played for the first time in 2009 as the Christmas in October Classic. It has been played at the Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate in Overland Park, Kansas and Blue Hills Country Club in Kansas City, Missouri. The tournament took a hiatus in 2010, and returned as the Midwest Classic in 2011 with the Kansas City Crusaders as the host organization. The event was renamed as the KC Golf Classic in 2018. [1]
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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AdventHealth Championship | ||||||
2024 | Harry Higgs | 269 | −19 | Playoff | Tanner Gore | |
2023 | Grayson Murray | 269 | −19 | 1 stroke | Wilson Furr Rico Hoey | |
2022 | Trevor Cone | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Taylor Montgomery | |
2021 | Cameron Young | 269 | −19 | 2 strokes | Dawie van der Walt | |
KC Golf Classic | ||||||
2020 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [2] | |||||
2019 | Michael Gellerman | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Harry Higgs Nelson Ledesma | |
2018 | Sepp Straka | 262 | −22 | 1 stroke | Kyle Jones | |
Digital Ally Open | ||||||
2017 | Dou Zecheng | 259 | −25 | 3 strokes | Luke Guthrie Billy Kennerly Kyle Thompson | |
2016 | Wesley Bryan | 264 | −20 | Playoff | Grayson Murray J. T. Poston | |
2015 | Martin Piller | 258 | −26 | 4 strokes | Darron Stiles | |
Midwest Classic | ||||||
2014 | Zack Sucher | 265 | −19 | 3 strokes | Aaron Watkins | |
2013 | Jamie Lovemark | 266 | −18 | 1 stroke | Mark Anderson | |
2012 | Shawn Stefani | 267 | −17 | 2 strokes | Russell Henley Luke List | |
2011 | James Nitties | 258 | −26 | 5 strokes | Jonas Blixt Nick Flanagan | |
Christmas in October Classic | ||||||
2010: No tournament | ||||||
2009 | Michael Sim | 264 | −20 | 2 strokes | Josh Teater |
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