Rust-Oleum Championship

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Rust-Oleum Championship
Tournament information
Location Ivanhoe, Illinois
Established2014
Course(s)Ivanhoe Club
Par72
Length7,022 yards (6,421 m)
Tour(s) Web.com Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$600,000
Month playedJune
Final year2018
Tournament record score
Aggregate266 Shane Bertsch (2015)
To par−18 as above
Final champion
Flag of the United States.svg Chase Wright
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Ivanhoe Club
Location in the United States
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Ivanhoe Club
Location in Illinois

The Rust-Oleum Championship was a golf tournament on the Web.com Tour from 2014 to 2018. It was first played in June 2014 as the Cleveland Open at the Lakewood Country Club in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. [1] In 2016, it moved to Ivanhoe Club in Ivanhoe, Illinois. [2]

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In the inaugural edition, Steven Alker defeated Dawie van der Walt in an eleven-hole playoff, the longest in Web.com Tour history. [3]

Winners

YearWinneScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Rust-Oleum Championship
2018 Flag of the United States.svg Chase Wright 271−17Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Alex Prugh
2017 Flag of Germany.svg Stephan Jäger 274−142 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Ted Potter Jr.
2016 Flag of the United States.svg Max Homa 275−131 stroke Flag of the United States.svg John Mallinger
Flag of the United States.svg Josh Teater
2015 Flag of the United States.svg Shane Bertsch 266−181 stroke Flag of Brazil.svg Lucas Lee
Cleveland Open
2014 Flag of New Zealand.svg Steven Alker 270−14Playoff Flag of South Africa.svg Dawie van der Walt

Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Web.com Tour regular-season money list.

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References

  1. "PGA Tour, Greater Cleveland Sports Commission announce new event". PGA Tour. February 12, 2014.
  2. "Rust-Oleum Championship moves to Chicagoland". PGA Tour. December 7, 2015.
  3. Schwarb, John (June 9, 2014). "Alker wins epic 11-hole playoff at Cleveland Open". PGA Tour.