The Dominican Republic Open (also known as The DR Open) was a men's professional
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
PGA Tour Latinoamérica
PGA Tour Latinoamérica was a third level professional golf tour formed in 2012 and operated by the PGA Tour. It was formed in concert with the now also defunct Tour de las Américas. Executives from the Tour de las Américas became employees of ...
.
The event was originally hosted as a combined amateur
stableford
Stableford is a scoring system used in the sport of golf. Rather than counting the total number of strokes taken, as in regular stroke play, it involves scoring points based on the number of strokes taken at each hole. Unlike traditional scorin ...
and professional
stroke play
Stroke play is a scoring system in the sport of golf. In the regular form of stroke play, also known as medal play, the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In a regular stroke play competition, the winner is the ...
competition by The Dominican Golf Federation in 2010 and 2011.
In 2012, the tournament was announced as an event on the inaugural
PGA Tour Latinoamérica
PGA Tour Latinoamérica was a third level professional golf tour formed in 2012 and operated by the PGA Tour. It was formed in concert with the now also defunct Tour de las Américas. Executives from the Tour de las Américas became employees of ...
season and the focus of the event was shifted towards the professional stroke play, although the
pro–am
Pro–am (or pro/am, pro am, ProAm; a contraction of professional–amateur) refers to a sporting event where both professional career athletes and amateurs compete. It could also refer to a collaboration between professionals and amateu ...
format was retained.
Winners
See also
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Open golf tournament
An open golf tournament usually refers to a golf tournament in which all golfers may compete regardless of their professional or amateur status. Often there will be certain restrictions, commonly based on ability. Some amateur-only tournaments are ...
Notes
References
External links
Coverage on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica official site
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PGA Tour Latinoamérica events
Golf tournaments in the Dominican Republic
Pro–am golf tournaments
Summer in the Dominican Republic
Recurring sporting events established in 2010
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2020
2010 establishments in the Dominican Republic
2020 disestablishments in the Dominican Republic