Liggett Myers Open
Encyclopedia
The Liggett Myers Open was a golf
tournament on the PGA Tour
. It was sponsored by the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company
.
It was played in 1972 and 1973 in conjunction with the U.S. Professional Match Play Championship
. After the first two rounds of play, the top eight players dropped from the Liggett Myers Open and joined eight exempt players to compete in the U.S. Professional Match Play Championship. The purse for the Liggett Myers Open was $100,000 with $20,000 going to the winner, while the purse for the U.S. Professional Match Play Championship was $150,000 with $40,000 going to the winner and $5,000 going to first round losers.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament on the PGA Tour
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
. It was sponsored by the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company
Liggett Group
Liggett Group , formerly known as Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, is the fourth largest tobacco company in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Durham, North Carolina, though its manufacturing facility is 30 miles to the west in Mebane, North Carolina...
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It was played in 1972 and 1973 in conjunction with the U.S. Professional Match Play Championship
U.S. Professional Match Play Championship
The U.S. Professional Match Play Championship was a PGA Tour event that was played in North Carolina in the early 1970s.The event was first played as the Liggett & Myers Open Match Play Championship in 1971 at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst...
. After the first two rounds of play, the top eight players dropped from the Liggett Myers Open and joined eight exempt players to compete in the U.S. Professional Match Play Championship. The purse for the Liggett Myers Open was $100,000 with $20,000 going to the winner, while the purse for the U.S. Professional Match Play Championship was $150,000 with $40,000 going to the winner and $5,000 going to first round losers.
Tournament hosts
- 1973 MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary, North CarolinaCary, North CarolinaCary is a large town and suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina in Wake and Chatham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located almost entirely in Wake County, it is the second largest municipality in that county and the third largest municipality in The Triangle after Raleigh and Durham...
. - 1972 Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst, North CarolinaPinehurst, North CarolinaPinehurst is a village in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 9,706 at the 2000 census. It is the location of the Pinehurst Resort, venue of the 1936 PGA Championship, the 1951 Ryder Cup. The host site for the 1999, 2005,& 2014 U.S. Open Golf Championships, the 2008 U.S....
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