The Valspar Championship started on Thursday, March 10, 2016 and ended on Sunday, March 13, 2016. This tournament has been going on since 1977. This year it was held at the Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida. The designer is Larry Packard. The Innisbrook resort has four golf courses, eleven tennis courts, six swimming pools, 60 acres of ponds to fish, and countless other activities that the whole family can enjoy. They even host weddings at the resort. There were a few big names in this tournament but there wasn't a whole lot of them. Some of them were Keegan Bradley, Matt Kuchar, and Jordan Speith. There was an amateur named Lee McCoy that played in the tournament. He got an extension from the tour organizers that let him play for free but the only catch was that he could not collect the prize money that he wins. He ended up beating Jordan Speith and finishing fourth place. He would have won $292,800 but instead he had to leave it on the table and go home with only $350 in his bank account. Charl Schwartzel won the tournament on the first playoff hole against Bill Haas. Charl is from South Africa. He collected $1,098,000 out of the total purse that was $6,100,000. There were lots of sponsors for this tournament but the main one was Valspar. Some of the past winners are Jordan Speith (2015), John Senden (2014), Kevin Streelman (2013), and Luke Donald (2012).
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January 2016
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