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Bet 2011 Transitions
Championship at Palm Harbor, Fla
March 14 – 20, 2011
Transitions Championship
Palm Harbor, Fla.
Copperhead presents a stern test of golf odds at this years
Transitions Championship on March 14 – 20, 2011. One of the newer
events on the PGA Tour, the 2011 Transitions Championship will
take place on the Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook Resort and
Golf Club in Palm Harbor, FL this March. |
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This PGA Tour event
was founded in 2000 as the Tampa Bay Classic, and was known as the
Chrysler Championship from 2003 to 2006. Now, it's made the
transition to its current name and is garnering a reputation as a
great event on a yearly basis.
John Huston won the inaugural event at this venue known then as The
Chrysler Championship in 2000. The tournament was cancelled in 2001
due to the events of Sept. 11th. K.J. Choi won it in 2002 and Retief
Goosen in 2003 with Vijay Singh in 2004, Carl Pettersson in '05'.
K.J. Choi won the tournament in '06' and Mark Calcavechia won in
2007.
Most of the 2009 field is expected to return, including Steve
Stricker, Jim Furyk and Kenny Perry (all ranked in the top 13
players in the world in the latest Official World Golf Rankings) as
well as recent past champions Retief Goosen (2009) and Sean O'Hair
(2008).
The players with the most Transitions Championship victories are
Retief Goosen in 2003 and 2009, and K.J. Choi in 2002 and 2006, and
the tournament record was set by Vijay Singh in 2004 by winning with
an 18-under-par total of 266.
The 18-hole "Copperhead" course at the Copperhead Golf Club facility
in Lehigh Acres, Florida features 6,680 yards of golf from the
longest tees for a par of 72. The course offers tightly cut fairways
bordered by towering whispering pines, demanding accuracy as well as
distance.
The course rating is 70.9 and it has a slope rating of 129 on
Bermuda grass. The course opens with a par-5 (560 yards from the
back tees and 450 from the forward) that is a sweeping dogleg right
with a tee box perched some 50 feet above the fairway. The placement
of the second shot must be accurate to set up a birdie chance here.
Designed by Gordon G. Lewis, the Copperhead golf course opened in
2001.
Transitions Championship 2010 Winner: Jim Furyk
Furyk was consistent all weekend, shooting a 67 or 68 in the first three rounds to remain in the hunt heading into Sunday. Furyk finished one shot ahead of K.J. Choi, who finished 12-under for the tournament.
| Date |
Winner |
Country |
Score |
1st Prize ($) |
Purse ($) |
| Transitions Championship |
| Mar 22, 2010 |
Jim Furyk |
United States |
271 |
972,000 |
5,400,000 |
| Mar 22, 2009 |
Retief Goosen |
South Africa |
276 (-8) |
972,000 |
5,400,000 |
| PODS Championship |
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| Mar 9, 2008 |
Sean O'Hair |
United States |
280 (-4) |
954,000 |
5,300,000 |
| Chrysler Championship |
| Oct 29, 2006 |
K. J. Choi |
South Korea |
271 (-13) |
954,000 |
5,300,000 |
| Oct 30, 2005 |
Carl Pettersson |
Sweden |
275 (-9) |
954,000 |
5,300,000 |
| Oct 31, 2004 |
Vijay Singh |
Fiji |
266 (-18) |
900,000 |
5,000,000 |
| Nov 2, 2003 |
Retief Goosen |
South Africa |
272 (-12) |
864,000 |
4,800,000 |
| Tampa Bay Classic presented by Buick |
| Sep 22, 2002 |
K. J. Choi |
South Korea |
267 (-17) |
468,000 |
2,600,000 |
| Tampa Bay Classic |
| Sep 16, 2001 |
Cancelled due to the terrorist attacks on September 11 |
| Oct 22, 2000 |
John Huston |
United States |
271 (-13) |
432,000 |
2,400,000 |
The
golf betting odds for this week's PGA
Transitions Championship in Palm
Harbor, Fla. have been released by
Gamblers Palace Sportsbook.
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