The Rust-Oleum Championship was 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
Web.com 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. T ...
from 2014 to 2018. It was first played in June 2014 as the Cleveland Open at the Lakewood Country Club in
Westlake, Ohio
Westlake is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb located west of downtown Cleveland. The population was 34,228 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
The area now known as the city of Westlake was first ...
, a suburb of
Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...
. In 2016, it moved to
Ivanhoe Club in Ivanhoe, Illinois.
In the inaugural edition,
Steven Alker
Steven Craig Alker (born 28 July 1971) is a New Zealand professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions, where he has won nine times. He won the season-long 2022 Charles Schwab Cup on the PGA Tour Champions.
Early life
Alker was born i ...
defeated
Dawie van der Walt
Isak Dawid "Dawie" van der Walt (born 11 February 1983) is a South African professional golfer. He won twice on the European Tour in 2013, both times in South Africa, and won twice on the Web.com Tour in 2015. He currently plays on the PGA Tour. ...
in an eleven-hole playoff, the longest in Web.com Tour history.
Winners
Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Web.com Tour regular-season money list.
See also
*
DAP Championship
The DAP Championship was a golf tournament on the Web.com Tour from 2016 to 2018. It was played at Canterbury Golf Club in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood, Ohio. The tournament was part of the Web.com Tour Finals.
Winners
See also
*Rust-O ...
, a
Web.com Tour Finals event in the Cleveland suburb of
Beachwood to begin in 2016
*
Legend Financial Group Classic, a Web.com Tour event in the Cleveland suburb of Highland Heights from 2005 to 2007
*
Greater Cleveland Open, a Web.com Tour event from 1990 to 2001
*
Cleveland Open, a
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, the PGA Tour Champion ...
event from 1963 to 1972
References
External links
Coverage on the Web.com Tour's official site
Former Korn Ferry Tour events
Golf tournaments in Ohio
Golf tournaments in Illinois
Sports competitions in Cleveland
Recurring sporting events established in 2014
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2018
2014 establishments in Ohio
2018 establishments in Ohio
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