Movistar Panama Championship
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The Panama Claro Championship is a golf
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 Nationwide Tour
Nationwide Tour
The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...

. It is played annually at Panama Golf Club in Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

. It is one of several tournaments on the Nationwide Tour held outside the United States
United States
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.

The 2011 purse was $550,000, with $99,000 going to the winner.

Winners

Panama Claro Championship
  • 2011   Mathew Goggin
    Mathew Goggin
    Mathew Charles Goggin is an Australian professional golfer.As an amateur, Goggin won the 1995 Australian Amateur, played at Huntingdale Golf Club in Melbourne, Victoria, 2 & 1 over American Jamie Crow...

  • 2010   Fran Quinn
    Fran Quinn
    Fran Quinn, Jr. is a professional golfer from the United States who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Quinn was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and attended Northwestern University where he graduated in 1987 with a degree in Economics...



Panama Digicel Championship
  • 2009   Vance Veazey
    Vance Veazey
    Vance Veazey is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Veazey was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1989 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree...



Panama Movistar Championship
  • 2008   Scott Dunlap


Movistar Panama Championship
  • 2007   Miguel Carballo
    Miguel Carballo
    Miguel Ángel Carballo is an Argentine professional golfer who plays mainly on the Nationwide Tour. Known affectionately as "El Tati" Carballo, he is the first Argentine to win on the Nationwide Tour...

  • 2006   Tripp Isenhour
    Tripp Isenhour
    John Henry "Tripp" Isenhour III is an American professional golfer.Isenhour was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. He played golf collegiately at Georgia Tech and turned professional in 1990....



BellSouth Panama Championship
  • 2005   Vance Veazey
    Vance Veazey
    Vance Veazey is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Veazey was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1989 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree...

  • 2004   Jimmy Walker
    Jimmy Walker (golfer)
    Jimmy Walker is an American professional golfer.Walker was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He played on the Nationwide Tour full-time in 2003 and 2004. In 2004 he was the Nationwide Tour money winner and player of the year. By doing so he earned his PGA...


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