The Small Business Connection Championship was a
golf tournament on the
Web.com Tour. It was played for the first time as the Chiquita Classic in July 2010 at
TPC River's Bend
TPC River's Bend is a private golf club located in Maineville, Ohio about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati.
The Arnold Palmer-designed championship golf course opened in 2001, and is a licensed member of the Tournament Players Club Network. It ...
in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
[Nationwide Tour to play new Chiquita Classic in Cincinnati]
Tommy Gainey won the inaugural event in 2010 by 3 strokes at 27-under-par.
From 2013 to 2015, it was part of the
Web.com Tour Finals
The Korn Ferry Tour Finals is a series of three golf tournaments that serve as a means of earning PGA Tour membership for the following season ("Tour cards"). The series, which until 2019 consisted of four tournaments, replaced the PGA Tour Qualif ...
and the field consisted of the top 75 players from the Web.Com Tour money list and the players ranked 126 to 200 on the
PGA Tour's money list at the start of the Finals.
The tournament was moved to River Run Country Club in
Davidson, North Carolina from 2013 onward and the purse was set at
US$1,000,000, with $180,000 going to the winner.
Winners
Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the final Web.com Tour money list, in the pre-Finals era. When the event was part of the Web.com Tour Finals, all winners and runners-up earned PGA Tour cards.
References
External links
Coverage on the Web.com Tour's official site
{{Former Web.com Tour Events
Former Korn Ferry Tour events
Golf in Ohio
Sports competitions in Cincinnati
Recurring sporting events established in 2010
2010 establishments in Ohio