Tallahassee Open

This article is about the former PGA Tour event. For the former Nike Tour event, see Nike Tallahassee Open. For the former LPGA Tour event, see Centel Classic (LPGA Tour).

Centel Classic
Tournament information
LocationTallahassee, Florida
Established1969
Course(s)Killearn Golf and Country Club
Par72
Length7,098 yards (6,490 m)
Tour(s)PGA Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$750,000
Month playedSeptember/October
Final year1989
Tournament record score
Aggregate269 Chi-Chi Rodríguez (1979)
269 Jeff Sluman (1985)
To par−19 as above
Final champion
Bill Britton
Location map
Killearn G&CC
Location in the United States
Killearn G&CC
Location in Florida

The Tallahassee Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1969 to 1989. It was played at Killearn Country Club in Tallahassee, Florida.

It was founded in 1969 as the Tallahassee Open Invitational. From 1983 to 1985, it was part of the PGA Tour's "Tournament Players Series", a "satellite tour". The purse for the 1989 tournament was $750,000 with 135,000 going to the winner.

The 1974 tournament featured the highest round scores in PGA history by a player who made the 36-hole cut. Mike Reasor severely injured himself horse riding between the second and third rounds. Needing to complete the tournament in order to gain an exemption for the Byron Nelson Classic, Reasor played the final two rounds using only a 5-iron and swinging using just one arm, recording scores of 123 and 114.[1]

From 1990 to 1992, Killearn Country Club hosted a LPGA Tour event by the same name.

Winners

Year Tour[a] Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Ref.
Centel Classic
1989 PGAT Bill Britton 200[b] −16 4 strokes Ronnie Black
1988 PGAT Bill Glasson 272 −16 2 strokes Tommy Armour III
1987 PGAT Keith Clearwater 278 −10 1 stroke Bill Glasson
Billy Kratzert
Bob Lohr
Joey Sindelar
Tallahassee Open
1986 Mark Hayes 274 −10 1 stroke Russ Cochran [2]
1985 TPS Jeff Sluman 269 −19 1 stroke Kenny Knox
Gary Player		 [3]
1984 TPS Kermit Zarley 271 −17 Playoff Denis Watson [4]
1983 TPS Bob Charles 282 −6 Playoff Greg Powers [5][6]
1982 PGAT Bob Shearer 272 −16 1 stroke Hal Sutton
Denis Watson
1981 PGAT Dave Eichelberger 271 −17 Playoff Bob Murphy
Mark O'Meara
1980 PGAT Mark Pfeil 277 −11 1 stroke Mark Lye
Bill Rogers
1979 PGAT Chi-Chi Rodríguez 269 −19 3 strokes Lindy Miller
1978 PGAT Barry Jaeckel 273 −15 Playoff Bruce Lietzke
1977 PGAT Ed Sneed 276 −12 Playoff Lon Hinkle
1976 PGAT Gary Koch 277 −11 1 stroke John Mahaffey
1975 PGAT Rik Massengale 274 −14 2 strokes Spike Kelley
Bert Yancey
1974 PGAT Allen Miller 274 −14 1 stroke Joe Inman
Eddie Pearce
Dan Sikes
1973 PGAT Hubert Green 277 −11 1 stroke Jim Simons
1972 PGAT Bob Shaw 273 −15 2 strokes Leonard Thompson
Tallahassee Open Invitational
1971 PGAT Lee Trevino 273 −15 3 strokes Jim Wiechers
1970 PGAT Harold Henning 277 −11 1 stroke Rives McBee
1969 PGAT Chuck Courtney 282 −6 1 stroke Jacky Cupit
Bert Greene
Bob Shaw

Notes

  1. ^ PGAT − PGA Tour; TPS − Tournament Players Series.
  2. ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.

References

  1. ^ Kelley, Brent. "Mike Reasor, the PGA Tour Player Who Scored 93-Over Par". About.com. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  2. ^ "The Tour Book 1987" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 247.
  3. ^ "The Tour Book 1986" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 251.
  4. ^ "The Tour Book 1985" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 235.
  5. ^ "The Tour Book 1984" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 246.
  6. ^ Browning, Al (June 6, 1986). "Caddies live and die with pros". Chicago Tribune. Scripps Howard News Service. Retrieved January 3, 2020.


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