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Description

The
Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft
is a professional
golf
tournament in
Idaho
on the
Korn Ferry Tour
, played annually at
Hillcrest Country Club
in
Boise
. Held in mid-September for its first 23 years, the new September playoff schedule of the Web.com Tour in
2013
moved the Boise event up to late July. The event returned to mid-September in
2016
, and became part of the
Web.com Tour Finals
as the penultimate event. The schedule was revised for
2019
and it moved to late August.
The Boise Open has been played every year since
1990
, the first year of the tour, then known as the
Ben Hogan Tour
.
[2]
It is one of four original tournaments on the current schedule.
[3]
Future notable names in the top 20 that first year were
Tom Lehman
,
John Daly
,
Jeff Maggert
, and
Stephen Ames
;
[4]
David Toms
made the cut.
Golf has been played on the site since the 1920s, originally named
Idaho Country Club
. Established in 1940,
Hillcrest Country Club
has been the only home of the tournament since its inception. The Boise Open was a 54-hole tournament for its first six years,
[4]
[5]
a fourth round was added in
1996
.
[6]
This stop in
southwestern
Idaho consistently offers one of the top purses on the Korn Ferry Tour. The 2019 purse is expected to be
$
1.0 million,
with a winner's share of 0,000. The first purse in 1990 was
$
100,000, with a winner's share of ,000;
[4]
the first six-figure winner's share went to
Tim Clark
in
2000
.
[7]
The
2003
event featured 13-year-old
Michelle Wie
, the youngest ever to play on the tour;
[8]
she carded 78-76 and missed the cut by twelve strokes.
[9]
[10]
Chris Tidland
shot 264 (−20) to win by four strokes in
2008
;
Fran Quinn
shot 270 (−14) in
2009
with a
birdie
on the final hole to edge third round leader
Blake Adams
by a single stroke.
[11]
Hunter Haas
shot 263 (−21) in
2010
to win by one stroke over
Daniel Summerhays
.
[12]
At the
2015
edition, retired
Army
Corporal Chad Pfeifer became the first veteran amputee to play on the Web.com Tour, but missed the cut. He lost his left leg in a 2007 explosion and earned entry through a sponsor exemption.
Albertsons
, a major
supermarket
retailer in the western U.S., has been the title sponsor since 2002. The grocery chain was founded 81 years ago by
Joe Albertson
in 1939 in Boise, and the company was headquartered in the city until 2006, when it was acquired by
Supervalu
of
Eden Prairie
,
Minnesota
. The company has committed to sponsorship of the tournament through 2016
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2001
Michael Long
New Zealand
270
−14
1 stroke
Tjaart van der Walt
2000
Tim Clark
South Africa
269
−15
6 strokes
Patrick Burke
Steve Haskins