Athens Regional Foundation Classic
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The Stadion Classic at UGA is a golf
tournament on the Nationwide Tour
. It is played at University of Georgia Golf Club in Athens, Georgia
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It was founded in 2006 as the Athens Regional Foundation Classic with the Athens Regional Foundation as the host organization for the event. It was played at Jennings Mill Country Club in Bogart, Georgia
from 2006 to 2009.
The 2011 purse was $550,000, with $99,000 for first place. Since an amateur, Russell Henley, won the tournament, the first place money went to the second place finisher.
Stadion Athens Classic at UGA
Athens Regional Foundation Classic
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament on the Nationwide Tour
Nationwide Tour
The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...
. It is played at University of Georgia Golf Club in Athens, Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Athens-Clarke County is a consolidated city–county in U.S. state of Georgia, in the northeastern part of the state, comprising the former City of Athens proper and Clarke County. The University of Georgia is located in this college town and is responsible for the initial growth of the city...
.
It was founded in 2006 as the Athens Regional Foundation Classic with the Athens Regional Foundation as the host organization for the event. It was played at Jennings Mill Country Club in Bogart, Georgia
Bogart, Georgia
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from 2006 to 2009.
The 2011 purse was $550,000, with $99,000 for first place. Since an amateur, Russell Henley, won the tournament, the first place money went to the second place finisher.
Winners
Stadion Classic at UGA- 2011
Russell Henley (amateur)
Stadion Athens Classic at UGA
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Athens Regional Foundation Classic
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