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The Booz Allen Classic was a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1968 to 2006. Perhaps more so than any other "regular" PGA Tour stop, the event wandered about, not just from course to course within a given metropolitan area, but along the East Coast. Originally known as the Kemper Open, the inaugural event was played in 1968 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, before moving to the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina the following year, where it stayed through 1979. (The Wells Fargo Championship is now held in Charlotte.) The event moved to Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland in 1980. In 1987, the tournament moved to the TPC at Avenel course in neighboring Potomac, Maryland. The "Kemper" name was dropped after the 2002 tournament, which then became the "FBR Capital Open" for a single year in 2003. Booz Allen Hamilton was the main sponsor of the tournament from 2004-06. The event returned to Congressional for a year in 2005 to accommodate renovations at Avenel. The 2006 purse was $5.0 million, with $900,000 going to the winner. In 1992, Washington Redskins quarterback Mark Rypien was given a sponsor's exemption into the tournament and shot rounds of 80-91. Many up and coming players first won here, as top players often took the week off because the tournament was usually played the week after the U.S. Open. For 2007, the PGA Tour announced that it would reschedule the event for the fall, and Booz Allen declined to renew its sponsorship. The fall date was in turn canceled to make way for the new AT&T National, to take place at the same time as the Classic had. Also in 2006, the tournament ended on Tuesday due to persistent storms in the D.C. area. The conclusion of what turned out to be the final Booz Allen Classic was not televised. A new format (invitation only), new host for the tournament (Tiger Woods), and a return to Congressional Country Club marked the July 2007 stop in Washington for the FedEx Cup, the AT&T National. For record-keeping purposes, it is not a "successor" tournament officially, even though it is the "new" tour stop in the same region. ==Winners== Booz Allen Classic *2006 Ben Curtis *2005 Sergio García *2004 Adam Scott FBR Capital Open *2003 Rory Sabbatini Kemper Insurance Open *2002 Bob Estes *2001 Frank Lickliter *2000 Tom Scherrer Kemper Open *1999 Rich Beem *1998 Stuart Appleby *1997 Justin Leonard *1996 Steve Stricker *1995 Lee Janzen *1994 Mark Brooks *1993 Grant Waite *1992 Bill Glasson *1991 Billy Andrade *1990 Gil Morgan *1989 Tom Byrum *1988 Morris Hatalsky *1987 Tom Kite *1986 Greg Norman *1985 Bill Glasson *1984 Greg Norman *1983 Fred Couples *1982 Craig Stadler *1981 Craig Stadler *1980 John Mahaffey *1979 Jerry McGee *1978 Andy Bean *1977 Tom Weiskopf *1976 Joe Inman *1975 Raymond Floyd *1974 Bob Menne *1973 Tom Weiskopf *1972 Doug Sanders *1971 Tom Weiskopf *1970 Dick Lotz *1969 Dale Douglass *1968 Arnold Palmer 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「Booz Allen Classic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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