The Showdown at Somerby was a regular
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
tournament on the
Nationwide Tour
The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. ...
. It was played at Troy Burne Golf Club in
Hudson, Wisconsin
Hudson is a city in and the county seat of St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 14,755. It is part of the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.
History
Several Li ...
in 2004 and 2005 and moved to the
Somerby Golf Club in
Byron, Minnesota
:''There are also two Byron Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), Byron Townships in Minnesota.''
Byron is a city in Olmsted County, Minnesota, Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, approximately west of Rochester, Minnesota, Rochester an ...
for 2006 and 2007. It was cancelled after four years because of a lack of corporate sponsorship.
Somerby loses Nationwide Tour event
'PostBulletin'', August 7, 2007
The title sponsor from 2004 to 2006 was Scholarship America
Scholarship America is a Minnesota-based American philanthropic organization that designs, administers and manages scholarship and emergency aid assistance to support students facing financial barriers to higher education.
History
Scholarshi ...
, which is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) charity that is the largest provider of scholarships for postsecondary education in the country. The presenting sponsor for the 2007 tournament was Think Mutual Bank.
The 2007 purse was $500,000, with $90,000 going to the winner.
Winners
Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the final Nationwide Tour money list.
References
External links
Archive of official sitePGATOUR.com tournament siteScholarship America(SM)'s official site
Former Korn Ferry Tour events
Golf tournaments in Wisconsin
Golf tournaments in Minnesota
Recurring sporting events established in 2004
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2007
2004 establishments in Wisconsin
2007 disestablishments in Minnesota
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