New Haven Open
Encyclopedia
The New Haven Open was a golf
tournament on the Nationwide Tour
. It ran from 1990 to 1993. It was played at Yale golf course
in New Haven, Connecticut
.
In 1993 the winner earned $27,000.
Ben Hogan Connecticut Open
Ben Hogan New Haven Open
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 ran from 1990 to 1993. It was played at Yale golf course
Yale golf course
The Yale golf course, owned and operated in New Haven near the West Haven border by Yale University, is a fine example of early American golf course design, with large, deeply bunkered greens and narrow rolling fairways challenging the golfer; it is considered one of the best collegiate golf...
in New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
.
In 1993 the winner earned $27,000.
Winners
NIKE Connecticut Open- 1993 Dave Stockton, Jr.Dave Stockton, Jr.Dave Stockton, Jr. is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Stockton joined the Nationwide Tour in 1993 and won two events in his rookie year, the NIKE Connecticut Open and the NIKE Hawkeye Open. He went through qualifying school and earned his PGA Tour...
Ben Hogan Connecticut Open
- 1992 Jon Christian
- 1991 Mike Holland
Ben Hogan New Haven Open
- 1990 Jim McGovernJim McGovern (golfer)James David McGovern is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.McGovern was born in Teaneck, New Jersey. He grew up in Oradell, New Jersey in a house adjoining the Hackensack Golf Club...