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The Frys.com Open was first staged in 2007 as the Fry's Electronics Open at Grayhawk Golf Club's Raptor Course in Scottsdale, Arizona. It adopted its current name in 2008, and moved to California in 2010, at CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin. In October 2014 (2015 season), the tournament moved to the North course of Silverado Country Club in Napa. The purse was $5 million for its first seven years and was raised to $6 million for the 2015 season. For the 2016 tournament (2017 season), the primary sponsor will become Safeway, and the tournament will be renamed the Safeway Open. The tournament will continue at the Silverado Country Club through 2020, and Safeway will sponsor it through that year. The event was a PGA Tour Fall Series golf tournament through 2012. Starting in October 2013, when the PGA Tour changed its "year" to begin in October, rather than January, the tournament became the opening event of the PGA Tour season, and FedEx Cup points were awarded to players. In 2013, tournament organizers had a long-term goal to stage the event at The Institute Golf Course in Morgan Hill, California, a course owned by John Fry when facilities were completed there. That was expected in 2016 or 2017, but will not happen because of the change of sponsorship that starts with the October 2016 tournament. The inaugural event in 2007 was won by Canadian Mike Weir by one stroke over Mark Hensby. In 2008 the event was won by Cameron Beckman on the second playoff hole, when he parred it and Kevin Sutherland bogeyed it. In 2009, Troy Matteson set a PGA Tour 36-hole record by shooting 61-61=122 in the second and third rounds, and then won the tournament in a three-man playoff against Rickie Fowler and Jamie Lovemark. Other notable players who have participated in the tournament include Ernie Els, David Duval, and Tiger Woods. Woods committed to play in the 2011 tournament as a condition for being selected by Fred Couples as one of two captain's pick for the United States team in the 2011 Presidents Cup, which took place in mid-November 2011. Silverado's North Course hosted an annual event on the PGA Tour from 1968 through 1980, the first nine editions as the Kaiser International Open Invitational. In 1977 it was renamed the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic; in 1981 it moved east to Kingsmill in Williamsburg, Virginia, where it was played through 2002. ==Winners== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frys.com Open」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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