Florida Classic (Nationwide Tour event)

The Florida Classic was a golf

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...

from 1999 to 2001. It was played at the Gainesville Country Club in Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...

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The purse in 2001 was US$425,000, with $76,500 going to the winner.

Winners

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2001 Chris Couch
Chris Couch (golfer)
Christian Stratton Couch is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Couch was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
2000 Fran Quinn
Fran Quinn
Fran Quinn, Jr. is a professional golfer from the United States who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Quinn was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and attended Northwestern University where he graduated in 1987 with a degree in Economics...

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1999 Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson (golfer)
Richard Johnson is a Welsh professional golfer.Johnson led the Nationwide Tour money list in 2007 to get his PGA Tour card for the 2008 season, but was unable to retain his card...

External links

2001 Florida Classic preview

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