Ginn Championship Hammock Beach Resort
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The Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach was a golf
tournament on the Champions Tour
form 2007 to 2008. It was played for the first time in 2007 in Palm Coast, Florida
at the Ocean Course at Ginn Hammock Beach Resort (formerly the Ocean Hammock Golf Club).
The purse for the 2008 tournament was US$2,500,000, with $375,000 going to the winner.
On January 29, 2009 Ginn Resorts announced that they were discontinuing their sponsorship of the Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach, the Ginn Open on the LPGA Tour and the Ginn sur Mer Classic
on the PGA Tour
, will not be hosting or producing any of these professional golf tournaments (including 2009 tournaments), and will no longer be sponsoring professional golfers.
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 Champions Tour
Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...
form 2007 to 2008. It was played for the first time in 2007 in Palm Coast, Florida
Palm Coast, Florida
Palm Coast is a city in Flagler County, Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 75,180; it is the most populous city or town in Flagler County. Palm Coast is a principal town of the Palm Coast, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, designated in 2007...
at the Ocean Course at Ginn Hammock Beach Resort (formerly the Ocean Hammock Golf Club).
The purse for the 2008 tournament was US$2,500,000, with $375,000 going to the winner.
On January 29, 2009 Ginn Resorts announced that they were discontinuing their sponsorship of the Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach, the Ginn Open on the LPGA Tour and the Ginn sur Mer Classic
Ginn sur Mer Classic
The Ginn sur Mer Classic was a PGA Tour golf tournament that lasted for two years, 2007 and 2008. It was announced in June 2007 as a replacement for the Running Horse Golf Championship, another proposed new tournament that collapsed before its first outing...
on the PGA Tour
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
, will not be hosting or producing any of these professional golf tournaments (including 2009 tournaments), and will no longer be sponsoring professional golfers.
Winners
Ginn Championship Hammock Beach Resort- 2008 Bernhard LangerBernhard LangerBernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...
- 2007 Keith FergusKeith FergusKeith Carlton Fergus is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, the Nationwide Tour and the Champions Tour....