Nationwide_Children's_Hospital_Invitational

Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship

Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship

Golf tournament

The Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship is a golf tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour. It was played for the first time in July 2007 at The Ohio State University Golf Club's Scarlet Course in Upper Arlington, Ohio. Jack Nicklaus, a former Ohio State golfer and Upper Arlington native, serves as honorary host of the event.

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The first six years of the event were unique in that it invited the top collegiate golfers to compete.[1] Amateurs won two of the six events.

Since 2013, it is part of the Korn Ferry Tour Finals and the field consists of the top 75 players from the Korn Ferry Tour money list and the players ranked 126 to 200 on the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup points list at the start of the Finals.[2][3]

The 2017 purse was $1,000,000, with a $180,000 winner's share.

Winners

Korn Ferry Tour (Current Finals system)2023–
Korn Ferry Tour (Old Finals system)2013–2019, 2021–22
Korn Ferry Tour (Championship Series)2020
Korn Ferry Tour (Regular)2007–2012
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Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Korn Ferry Tour regular-season money list, in years that the event was not part of the old Korn Ferry Tour Finals system. In years that the event was part of that system, all winners and runners-up earned PGA Tour cards.

References

  1. [1]
    "Top collegians earn invitations to inaugural Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 29, 2007. Retrieved July 10, 2007.
  2. [2]
    "PGA Tour announces 2013 Web.com Tour schedule". PGA Tour. December 13, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  3. [3]
    "Nationwide Children's Championship reveals new name and tournament logo". PGA Tour. March 11, 2013. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
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