| A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier | |
| Location: | White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia |
| Establishment: | 2010 |
| Course: | The Greenbrier (The Old White) |
| Par: | 70 |
| Yardage: | [1] |
| Tour: | PGA Tour |
| Format: | Stroke play |
| Final Year: | 2019 |
| Aggregate: | 258 Stuart Appleby (2010) |
| To-Par: | −22 as above |
| Final Champion: |  Joaquín Niemann |
| Map: | USA#USA West Virginia |
| Map Label: | The Greenbrier |
| Map Relief: | yes |
| Map Size: | 200 |
| Coordinates: | 37.787°N -80.314°W |
The Greenbrier Classic was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour, held from 2010 to 2019 at The Old White at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. For its final two editions, the tournament was titled A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier.
Opened in 1914,[2] The Old White course joined the TPC network of courses in March 2011.[3] [4] It was extended to in 2013, and reduced by a yard in 2017;[1] the average elevation is approximately 1850feet above sea level.[5]
Old White TPC Course in 2018
| Hole | Name | Yards | Par | Hole | Name | Yards | Par | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First | 449 | 4 | 10 | Principal's Nose | 385 | 4 | ||
| 2 | Hog's Back | 488 | 4 | 11 | Meadow | 493 | 4 | ||
| 3 | Biarritz | 205 | 3 | 12 | Long | 568 | 5 | ||
| 4 | Racetrack | 427 | 4 | 13 | Alps | 492 | 4 | ||
| 5 | Mounds | 388 | 4 | 14 | Narrows | 401 | 4 | ||
| 6 | Lookout | 471 | 4 | 15 | Eden | 229 | 3 | ||
| 7 | Plateau | 440 | 4 | 16 | Cape | 415 | 4 | ||
| 8 | Redan | 234 | 3 | 17 | Oaks | 616 | 5 | ||
| 9 | Punchbowl | 408 | 4 | 18 | Home | 177 | 3 | ||
| Out | 3,510 | 34 | In | 3,776 | 36 | ||||
| Source: | Total | 7,286 | 70 | ||||||
The Greenbrier Classic made its debut in 2010 and replaced the long-standing Buick Open in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on the tour schedule.[6] In the final round of the inaugural year, Stuart Appleby shot a 59 (the fifth in PGA Tour history) to win by one stroke. It was his first win on tour in four years.[7]
Played in late July for its first two editions, The Greenbrier Classic moved to early July in 2012. Prior to the 2012 event, the original six-year contract with the PGA Tour was extended another six years, through 2021.[8] The 2012 event was the first time Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson both missed the cut in the same tournament.[9]
Due to the effects of severe flooding in June 2016, that year's tournament was cancelled.
In 2018, the event was renamed A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, in honor of U.S. military involvement at the Greenbrier site (such as its use as a military hospital during World War II, and Project Greek Island).[10]
As part of major changes to the PGA Tour schedule, the event moved to September in 2019. Since the season began in the fall, the event skipped the 2018–19 season and was the first event of the 2019–20 season.[11] It was announced in April 2020 that, due in part to decreased attendance in its September date making the tournament less appealing to sponsors, the event would not return and the remainder of the contract with the tour had been cancelled by mutual agreement.[12] [13]
| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Purse ($) | Winner's share ($) | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier | ||||||||||
| 259 | −21 | 6 strokes | 7,500,000 | 1,350,000 | ||||||
| 261 | −19 | 5 strokes | 7,300,000 | 1,314,000 | ||||||
| Greenbrier Classic | ||||||||||
| 266 | −14 | 1 stroke | 7,100,000 | 1,278,000 | ||||||
| Canceled due to flooding | [14] | |||||||||
| 267 | −13 | Playoff | 6,700,000 | 1,206,000 | ||||||
| 264 | −16 | 2 strokes | 6,500,000 | 1,170,000 | ||||||
| 267 | −13 | 2 strokes | 6,300,000 | 1,134,000 | ||||||
| 264 | −16 | Playoff | 6,100,000 | 1,098,000 | [15] | |||||
| 270 | −10 | Playoff | 6,000,000 | 1,080,000 | [16] | |||||
| 258 | −22 | 1 stroke | 6,000,000 | 1,080,000 | ||||||