Quail Hollow Championship
2009 Quail Hollow Championship Date
April 27 - May 03, 2009
2009 Quail Hollow Championship Host Venue
Quail Hollow Club (Charlotte, NC)
The Wachovia Championship takes place at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is one of the championships to be included in the PGA Tour series. This will mark the 7th time this tournament will have played on this course, as it began to play here back in 2003. The Championship has raised over $9.4 million for charity, becoming one of the most prestigious sporting events in the Charlotte region, and has been recognized as one of the top events on the PGA TOUR. They usually take place in the beginning of May.
The championship got its name after its founder – the Wachovia Corporation. The Wachovia Championship total prize fund amounts to $6,000,000 and the winner is awarded about $1,000,000. It's 18-hole, par-72, 7,442-yard layout, designed by George W Cobb, and opened in 1961, is a major reason why the world's best players have been drawn to it, and this year is no exception with 19 of the top 25 men on the World Ranking list entered.
The Wachovia Championship was renamed the Quail Hollow Championship in 2009. Even though Wells Fargo, which recently purchased Wachovia, is under contract to sponsor the tournament through 2014, the company decided to take the name off the event. Wachovia had signed a new sponsorship deal during last year's tournament, an agreement that rolled over to Wells Fargo after the purchase.
Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Padraig Harrington, Vijay Singh, defending champion Anthony Kim, Jim Furyk and Masters champion Angel Cabrera are scheduled to play.
2009 Quail Hollow Championship Coverage
Four days of live coverage—
Rounds 1 and 2 (Thursday and Friday) on GOLF CHANNEL
Rounds 3 and 4 (Saturday and Sunday) on CBS Sports
2009 Quail Hollow Championship Purse
$6,500,000
Sanctioned by: US PGA Tour
Official Money Tournament
Winner's Share: US $ 1,152,000 (18% of total purse)
Defending Champion: Anthony Kim ($1,152,000)
COURSE DETAILS:
Private Equity golf course
Designed by George W Cobb
Opened 1961
72 par
7,442 yards off the hampionship tees
75 rating
139 slope
2009 Quail Hollow Championship Results
 Sean O’Hair has won the Quail Hollow Championship, closing with a 3-under 69 for a one-shot victory and redemption from blowing a five-shot lead a month ago to Tiger Woods.
Sean O'Hair, who was a +1800 favorite heading into Sunday, seized control with an eight-foot birdie on the 16th hole. He was on the practice green when Lucas Glover (+1400) failed to make a birdie on the 18th hole that would have forced a playoff.
Glover and Bubba Watson (+2500) finished one shot behind.
Woods, who started the day as the -120 fave, finished with 10 straight pars for a 72 to finish alone in fourth, two shots behind.
Zach Johnson (+200), who had a two-shot lead to start the final round, imploded on the par-3 second hole. The former Masters champion never recovered, closing with a 76. O'Hair was the only golfer of the final 18 players to tee off Sunday to break 70. |
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