Small Business Connection Championship

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Small Business Connection Championship
Tournament information
Location Charlotte, North Carolina
Established2010
Course(s)River Run Country Club
Par72
Length7,317 yards (6,691 m)
Tour(s) Web.com Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$1,000,000
Month playedSeptember
Final year2015
Tournament record score
Aggregate261 Tommy Gainey (2010)
To par−27 as above
Final champion
Flag of the United States.svg Chez Reavie
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River Run CC
Location in the United States
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River Run CC
Location in North Carolina

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.

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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

Web.com Tour (Finals)2013–2015
Web.com Tour (Regular)2010–2012
#YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Small Business Connection Championship
6th 2015 Flag of the United States.svg Chez Reavie 273−151 stroke Flag of Argentina.svg Emiliano Grillo
Flag of the United States.svg Jamie Lovemark
Flag of the United States.svg Steve Marino
Chiquita Classic
5th 2014 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Adam Hadwin 270−182 strokes Flag of the United States.svg John Peterson
4th 2013 Flag of the United States.svg Andrew Svoboda 276−12Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Will MacKenzie
3rd 2012 Flag of the United States.svg Russell Henley 266−22Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Patrick Cantlay
Flag of the United States.svg Morgan Hoffmann
2nd 2011 Flag of Scotland.svg Russell Knox 263−253 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Billy Hurley III
1st 2010 Flag of the United States.svg Tommy Gainey 261−273 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Joe Affrunti

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.

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References

  1. Nationwide Tour to play new Chiquita Classic in Cincinnati Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "PGA Tour announces 2013 Web.com Tour schedule". PGA Tour. December 13, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013.