The Alcan Golfer of the Year Championship, also known as the Alcan Open, was an international

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

tournament played from 1967 to 1970. It was sponsored by

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of Canada, a long-time corporate sponsor of professional golf on international circuits. A concurrent Alcan International tournament was also played. The 1969 tournament, played in the United States, was an official

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event.

Tournament hosts

*1967

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, Scotland *1968

Royal Birkdale Golf Club Royal Birkdale Golf Club is a golf course in the United Kingdom in North West England, located in Southport, Merseyside. It is one of the clubs in the rotation for both the Open Championship and Women's British Open and has hosted the Open Champio ...

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*1969

Portland Golf Club The Portland Golf Club is a private golf club in the northwest United States, in suburban Portland, Oregon. It is located in the unincorporated Raleigh Hills area of eastern Washington County, southwest of downtown Portland and east of Beaverton ...

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, United States *1970

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Winners

Alcan Open

Alcan International

Notes

References

Former PGA Tour events Golf in Oregon Sports in Portland, Oregon Recurring sporting events established in 1967 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1970 {{Oregon-sport-stub