PODS Championship

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PODS Championship
Tournament information
Location Palm Harbor, Florida
Established 2000
Course(s) Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club
Par 71
Yardage 7,295
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Purse $5,300,000
Month Played March
Tournament record scores
Aggregate 266 Vijay Singh (2004)
To-par -18 Vijay Singh (2004)
Current champion
Sean O'Hair

The PODS Championship, originally the Tampa Bay Classic, is a men's professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, and is played annually at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor, Florida. The tournament is the 11th event on the 2008 PGA Tour Schedule and is part of the Tour's FedEx Cup competition.

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[edit] History

The tournament was founded in 2000 as the Tampa Bay Classic. It was originally an alternate event played the same week as the Presidents Cup in 2000, and the same week as the WGC-American Express Championship in 2002. It was supposed to be played the same week as the WGC-American Express Championship on September 13-16, 2001. However, the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 forced the cancelations of both tournaments.

From 2003 to 2006, the Tampa Bay event had a slot in the schedule to itself as the last full-field event before the Tour Championship. The Chrysler Corporation was the title sponsor.

Since 2007, the Tampa Bay event has been played in March. For a time the tournament was without a title sponsor, leading to speculation on its fate beyond 2007. Then, on January 24, 2007, tournament officials and the PGA Tour announced a sponsorship agreement with the PODS Group. Located in Clearwater, Florida, PODS, short for Portable On Demand Storage, signed on for a six-year deal.[1] However, the company chose to exercise an option to withdraw as title sponsor after the 2008 event and tournament officials are searching for a replacement.[2]

[edit] Winners

PODS Championship

Chrysler Championship

Tampa Bay Classic presented by Buick

Tampa Bay Classic

  • 2001 No tournament. Cancelled due to the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001.
  • 2000 Flag of the United States John Huston

[edit] References

  1. ^ Newsroom, AP (2007-01-24). Tampa Event Named PODS Championship. GolfChannel.Com. Retrieved on 2007-01-25.
  2. ^ Page, Rodney. "Finding sponsor top priority", article, sptimes, 2008-03-08. Retrieved on 2008-04-06. (English) 

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