The Triton Financial Classic 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

Champions Tour PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour) is a men's professional senior golf tour, open to golfers age 50 and over, administered as a branch of the PGA Tour. History and format The Senior PGA Championship, f ...

from 2003 to 2009. It was played annually in

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at The Hills Country Club. The purse for the 2009 tournament was US$1,600,000, with $240,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 2003 as the Kinko's Classic of Austin.

Winners

Triton Financial Classic *2009

Bernhard Langer Bernhard Langer (; born 27 August 1957) is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1986, he became the sport's first number one ranked playe ...

FedEx Kinko's Classic *2008

Denis Watson Denis Leslie Watson (born 18 October 1955) is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe. Early life and amateur career Watson was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia. He was educated at Oriel Boys High School, Chisipite. Watson represented Rhodesia at t ...

*2007

Scott Hoch Scott Mabon Hoch ( ; born November 24, 1955) is an American professional golfer, who represented his country in the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2002. Early life Hoch was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. While attending Needham B. Broughton High Scho ...

*2006

Jay Haas Jay Dean Haas (born December 2, 1953) is an American professional golfer formerly of the PGA Tour who now plays on the PGA Tour Champions. Early life and amateur career Haas was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Belleville, Illinois ...

*2005

Jim Thorpe James Francis Thorpe (; May 22 or 28, 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional American football, football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was ...

*2004

Larry Nelson Larry Gene Nelson (born September 10, 1947) is an American professional golfer. He has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Early life and amateur career Nelson was born in Fort Payne, Alabama and grew up in ...

Kinko's Classic of Austin *2003

Hale Irwin Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American professional golfer. He was one of the world's leading golfers from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He is one of the few players in history to win three U.S. Opens, becoming the oldest ever U.S. ...

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Tournament highlights

*2003:

wins the inaugural edition of the tournament by defeating Tom Watson on the second hole of a sudden death playoff. This in spite of a final round meltdown by Irwin that included his throwing a ball in the creek after making double bogey and, on another hole, he whiffed on a very short putt, and then topped the next. *2008:

birdies the 54th hole to win by one shot over

Nick Price Nicholas Raymond Leige Price (born 28 January 1957) is a Zimbabwean former professional golfer who has won three major championships in his career: the PGA Championship twice (in 1992 and 1994) and The Open Championship in 1994. In the mid-1 ...

. Price looked to be in command of the tournament until he made double bogey on both the 51st and 52nd holes. *2009:

wins the last edition of the tournament by six shots over

Dana Quigley Dana C. Quigley (born April 14, 1947) is an American professional golfer. Early life Quigley was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1969. Professional career In 1971, Quigley turned profess ...

and

Mark O'Meara Mark Francis O'Meara (born January 13, 1957) is an American retired professional golfer. He was a tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Offici ...

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References

External links

PGATOUR.com tournament websiteTournament results (2003-2009) at GolfObserver.com
{{Former Champions Tour Events Former PGA Tour Champions events Golf tournaments in Texas Sports competitions in Austin, Texas Defunct sports competitions in the United States Recurring sporting events established in 2003 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2009 2003 establishments in Texas 2009 disestablishments in Texas