Boeing Classic fast facts
August 17, 2011
By Staff
Dates: Aug. 22-28
Players: 78
Format: 54 holes of stroke play with no cut
Purse: $2 million
Site: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge
Par: 72
Length: 7,264 yards
Television: Aug. 26-28 on The Golf Channel (broadcast live and replayed twice daily)
Past winners:
2010: Bernhard Langer
2009: Loren Roberts
2008: Tom Kite
2007: Dennis Watson
2006: Tom Kite
2005: David Eger
An accomplished field
Masters Tournament: 8 (Ben Crenshaw, Fred Couples, Mark O’Meara, Larry Mize, Bernhard Langer, Tom Watson, Fuzzy Zoeller, Craig Stadler)
U.S. Open: 4 (Irwin, Scott Simpson, Zoeller, Watson)
Open Championship: 4 (Mark Calcavecchia, O’Meara, Watson, Price)
PGA Championship: 4 (Price, Jeff Sluman, Hal Sutton, Bob Tway)
Scheduled players
See a full list of players expected to play in the 2010 Boeing Classic at www.boeingclassic.com.
Tommy Armour III
Mark Calcavecchia
Fred Couples
Ben Crenshaw
David Eger
Jay Haas
Hale Irwin
Tom Kite
Bernhard Langer
Mark O’Meara
Kenny Perry
Nick Price
Loren Roberts
Denis Watson
Fuzzy Zoeller
Course facts
Designer: Jack Nicklaus
Types of grass
Greens: Poa Annua
Tees: Annual bluegrass and bentgrass
Fairways: Annual bluegrass and ryegrass
Roughs: Pacific Northwest mix of Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, ryegrass and annual bluegrass
Bunkers
Number of bunkers: 107
Bunker sand: White Idaho silicate
Source: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge
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