The BMW Charity Pro-Am is a

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

Korn Ferry 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 is currently played at Thornblade Club (host course) in

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and The Carolina Country Club in

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. From 1992 to 2000, the event was played at Verdae Greens Golf Club in Greenville. When the event changed to a pro-am format in 2001, it moved to The Cliffs in

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, using the Valley and Keowee Vineyards courses. The Walnut Cove course was added in 2005. In 2008, the tournament shifted to three different courses: Thornblade Club, Carolina Country Club in

and Bright's Creek Golf Club in Mill Spring, North Carolina. In 2012, the Greenville Country Club (Chanticleer course) replaced Bright's Creek. The 2017 purse was $700,000, with $126,000 going to champion

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. Since 2002, the tournament has been sponsored by German car manufacturer

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, which has an assembly plant in Spartanburg County.

Courses

Winners

Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Korn Ferry Tour regular-season money list. Golfers in ''bold italics'' achieved their third win of the season at this tournament and were promoted immediately.

Notes

References

External links

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Coverage on the Korn Ferry Tour's official site
Korn Ferry Tour events Golf tournaments in South Carolina Golf tournaments in North Carolina Pro–am golf tournaments BMW Recurring sporting events established in 1992 1992 establishments in South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-sport-stub