The National Team Championship, which was played under a variety of names, was a team golf tournament played from 1965 to 1972. It was an official PGA Tour event from 1968 to 1972.[1]
Tournament hosts
- 1965–1966 PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
- 1968 Quail Creek Golf & Country Club and Twin Hills Golf & Country Club, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 1970–1972 Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania (an 18-hole, par-71 championship course that opened in 1959, and was originally designed by Dick Wilson.[2][3])
Winners
| Year | Tour[a] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runners-up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Team Championship | |||||||
| 1972 | PGAT |  Babe Hiskey and Kermit Zarley |
262 | −22 | 3 strokes | Grier Jones and Johnny Miller
| |
| 1971 | PGAT | Jack Nicklaus (3) and Arnold Palmer (3) |
257 | −27 | 6 strokes | Julius Boros and Bill Collins Bob Charles and Bruce Devlin
| |
| National Four-Ball Team Championship | |||||||
| 1970 | PGAT | Jack Nicklaus (2) and Arnold Palmer (2) |
259 | −25 | 3 strokes | George Archer and Bobby Nichols Bruce Crampton and Orville Moody Gardner Dickinson and Sam Snead
| |
| 1969: No tournament | |||||||
| PGA National Team Championship | |||||||
| 1968 | PGAT | George Archer and Bobby Nichols |
265 | −22 | 2 strokes | Monty Kaser and Rives McBee
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| 1967: No tournament | |||||||
| PGA Team Championship | |||||||
| 1966 | Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer |
256 | −32 | 3 strokes | Al Besselink and Doug Sanders
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| PGA National Four-ball Championship | |||||||
| 1965 | Butch Baird and Gay Brewer |
259 | −29 | 3 strokes | Jay Hebert and Lionel Hebert
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Notes
References
- ^ "Just in ...". Golf World. Vol. 66, no. 10. September 17, 2012. p. 15.
- ^ "Tournament history from Arnold Palmer's official site". Archived from the original on September 22, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2007.
- ^ "Laurel Valley Golf Club". Retrieved December 24, 2007.