The Chrysler Team Championship was an unofficial event on the
PGA Tour
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from 1983 to 1990. It used a two-man better-ball format. It was played at Boca West Resort and Club and Broken Sound Country Club in
Boca Raton, Florida
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from 1983 to 1986; at Palm Beach Polo Club, Wellington Club and Greenview Cove Country Club in
West Palm Beach, Florida
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from 1987 to 1988; at Palm Beach Polo Club (Cypress and Dunes courses) and Wellington Club in 1989; and at Binks Forest Country Club and Wellington Club in
Wellington, Florida
Wellington is a village just west of West Palm Beach in Palm Beach County and north of Miami. As of 2019, the city had a population of 65,398 according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, making it the most populous village in the state. It is the ...
in 1990. In its final year it was known as the Sazale Classic.
At the 1985 Chrysler Team Championship, five teams tied for first. The crowded playoff featuring ten players was won on the first extra hole when
Hal Sutton
Hal Evan Sutton (born April 28, 1958) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the PGA Tour Champions, who achieved 14 victories on the PGA Tour, including a major championship, the 1983 PGA Championship, and the 1983 Tournament ...
made a birdie putt.
Sutton, Floyd win team title with playoff
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Winners
Sazale Classic
*1990 Fred Couples
Frederick Steven Couples (born October 3, 1959) is an American professional golfer who has competed on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. A former World No. 1, he has won 64 professional tournaments, most notably the Masters Tournament ...
& Mike Donald
Chrysler Team Championship
*1989 David Ogrin
David Ogrin (born December 31, 1957) is an American professional golfer.
Ogrin was born and grew up in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from Waukegan East High School in 1976, then attended Texas A&M University, graduating in 1980 with a degree ...
& Ted Schulz
Theodore James Schulz (born October 29, 1959) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour.
Schulz was born, raised and has lived his entire life in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended the U ...
*1988 George Burns & Wayne Levi
Wayne John Levi (born February 22, 1952) is an American professional golfer.
Early life
Levi was born in Little Falls, New York and attended high school in Herkimer, New York. He enrolled at Oswego State University for two years and then the U ...
*1987 Mike Hulbert
Michael Patrick Hulbert (born April 14, 1958) is an American professional golfer and sportscaster.
Hulbert was born in Elmira, New York. He grew up in Horseheads, New York, and was a childhood friend and high school golf rival of fellow PGA To ...
& Bob Tway
*1986 Gary Hallberg
Gary George Hallberg (born May 31, 1958) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour, and Champions Tour.
Amateur career
Hallberg was born in Berwyn, Illinois. He attended Wake Forest University in Winston ...
& Scott Hoch
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* Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec
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* Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saska ...
*1985 Raymond Floyd
Raymond Loran Floyd (born September 4, 1942) is an American retired golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour, including four majors and four senior majors. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame ...
& Hal Sutton
Hal Evan Sutton (born April 28, 1958) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the PGA Tour Champions, who achieved 14 victories on the PGA Tour, including a major championship, the 1983 PGA Championship, and the 1983 Tournament ...
*1984 Phil Hancock
Phillip Ranson Hancock (born October 30, 1953) is an American professional golfer who formerly played on the PGA Tour.
Early life
Hancock learned to play golf growing up in Greenville, Alabama from his father, a local dentist.Charles Newborn, P ...
& Ron Streck
Ronald Raymond Streck (born July 17, 1954) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour, and is a current player on the Champions Tour.
Career
Streck was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His father started him ...
*1983 Johnny Miller & Jack Nicklaus
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References
PGA Tour unofficial money events
Team golf tournaments
Golf in Florida
Recurring sporting events established in 1983
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1990
1983 establishments in Florida
1990 disestablishments in Florida
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