The first tournament of the year was the Frys.com Open. It was played on the Silverado Resort and Spa North Course in Napa, California. This tournament was started in 2006. Origionally it was called the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open. The par for that week was 72. The total purse for the tournament was $6,000,000. The winner got $1,080,000 and 500 Fed-Ex cup points. I love to watch this tournament because the margin of victory is always close. In the past five years the margin of victory has been two or below. Three of those victories being in a playoff. There was some very good competitors in this golf tournament. Some of the big names were Rory McIlroy, Boo Weekly, and Kevin Na. Harold Varner III and Martin Laird were tied at seven under par. They both fell out of the top ten later in the tournament. Emiliano Grillo and Kevin Na managed to make their way to the top of the leaderboard and were tied at fifteen under par at the end of regulation. They went to the eighteenth hole for a playoff and Emiliano Grillo ended up winning. Two of the past winners are Sangmoon Bae and Jimmy Walker. The tournament donated one million dollars to charity. The charities can do a lot of things with a million dollars. Some of the players also donate money to charity. Some players have started their own charities. The next tournament is the Shriners Hospitals for Kids Open.
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January 2016
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