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Description

The
Booz Allen Classic
was a regular
golf
tournament on the
PGA Tour
from
1968
to
2006
.
Perhaps more so than any other "regular" PGA Tour stop, the event wandered about, not just from course to course within a given metropolitan area, but along the East Coast. Originally known as the
Kemper Open
, the inaugural event was played in 1968 at
Pleasant Valley Country Club
in
Sutton, Massachusetts
, before moving to the
Quail Hollow Club
in
Charlotte, North Carolina
the following year, where it stayed through 1979. (The
Wells Fargo Championship
is now held in Charlotte.) The event moved in
1980
to
Congressional Country Club
in
Bethesda, Maryland
, a suburb northwest of
Washington, D.C.
, and to
TPC at Avenel
in
1987
in neighboring
Potomac
.
Kemper Insurance dropped out as sponsor after the
2002
edition and was replaced by
Friedman Billings Ramsey
, which renamed the event the
FBR Capital Open
for a single year in
2003
.
Booz Allen Hamilton
became the main sponsor of the tournament in
2004
, and the event returned to Congressional for a year in 2005 to accommodate renovations at Avenel.
The purse in 2006 was .0 million, with 0,000 going to the winner; due to rain delays it concluded on Tuesday without a gallery.
[1]
In
1992
,
Washington Redskins
quarterback
Mark Rypien
, the reigning
Super Bowl MVP
, was given a sponsor's exemption into the tournament,
[2]
but shot rounds of 80 and 91 and missed the cut by 28 strokes.
[3]
[4]
Many up and coming players first won here, as top players often took the week off because the tournament was usually played the week after the
U.S. Open
. For 2007, the PGA Tour announced that it would reschedule the event for the fall, and Booz Allen declined to renew its sponsorship. The fall date was in turn canceled to make way for the new
AT&T National
, to take place at the same time as the Classic had.
Also in 2006, the tournament ended on Tuesday due to persistent storms in the D.C. area. The conclusion of what turned out to be the final Booz Allen Classic was not televised.
A new format (invitation only), new host for the tournament (
Tiger Woods
), and a return to
Congressional Country Club
marked the July
2007
stop in Washington for the FedEx Cup, the
AT&T National
. For record-keeping purposes, it is not a "successor" tournament officially, even though it is the "new" tour stop in the same region.
During the 1970s, the Kemper Open was among the highest purses on tour, exceeding the
majors
.
Booz Allen Classic
2006
Ben Curtis
United States
264
−20
5 strokes
Billy Andrade
Nick O'Hern
Pádraig Harrington
Steve Stricker
900,000
TPC at Avenel
2005
Sergio García
Spain
270
−14
2 strokes
Ben Crane
Davis Love III
Adam Scott
900,000
Congressional Country Club
Blue Course
2004
Adam Scott
Australia
263
−21
4 strokes
Charles Howell III
864,000
TPC at Avenel