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Turning Stone Resort Championship

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Turning Stone Resort Championship
Tournament information
LocationVerona, New York
Established2007
Course(s)Atunyote Golf Club
Par72
Length7,482 yards (6,842 m)
Tour(s)PGA Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$6,000,000
Month playedAugust
Final year2010
Tournament record score
Aggregate270 Steve Flesch (2007)
To par−18 as above
Final champion
United States Bill Lunde
Location map
Atunyote GC is located in the United States
Atunyote GC
Atunyote GC
Location in the United States
Atunyote GC is located in New York
Atunyote GC
Atunyote GC
Location in New York

The Turning Stone Resort Championship was a PGA Tour professional golf tournament, first played from September 20–23, 2007. It was hosted by the Atunyote Golf Club at Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York.

In 2007, it was the first of the seven Fall Series events played after the conclusion of the FedEx Cup, which was introduced the same year. The prize fund was $6 million.[1] The tournament's timing in the PGA Tour calendar changed in 2008: The 2008 Fall Series began before the conclusion of the FedEx Cup with the Viking Classic. After the Fall Series took a week off for The Tour Championship, it resumed with the Turning Stone Championship. In 2009, the Turning Stone Resort Championship was played the week after The Tour Championship.

In 2010, the event moved to August and become part of the main PGA Tour season, although it was an "alternate" event scheduled opposite a World Golf Championships tournament, specifically the Bridgestone Invitational. It was dropped from the PGA Tour schedule in 2011 when event organizers and the Tour could not agree on a stand-alone date for the tournament.[2][3]

John Rollins won the 2006 B.C. Open, which was held at the course, when En-Joie Golf Club (now the site of the Dick's Sporting Goods Open on the Champions Tour) was unavailable due to flooding.

Winners

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up Winner's
share ($)
2010 United States Bill Lunde 271 −17 1 stroke United States J. J. Henry 720,000
2009 United States Matt Kuchar 271 −17 Playoff United States Vaughn Taylor 1,080,000
2008 United States Dustin Johnson 279 −9 1 stroke Australia Robert Allenby 1,080,000
2007 United States Steve Flesch 270 −18 2 strokes United States Michael Allen 1,080,000

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