Costa Rica Open

The Costa Rica Open is a men's professional golf tournament that was played annually in Costa Rica until 2007. It was an event on the Tour de las Americas from 2002 until its replacement by the Costa Rica Golf Classic in 2008, and was also co-sanctioned by the European Challenge Tour from 2003.

Costa Rica Open
Tournament information
Location Costa Rica
Established2002
Course(s)Cariari Country Club
Tour(s)Tour de las Americas
Challenge Tour
FormatStroke play
Final year2007
Tournament record score
Aggregate275 Miguel Rodríguez (2007)
To par-9 (as above)
Final champion
Miguel Rodríguez

The tournament was held at the Cariari Country Club near San José every year except in 2004 when it was played over the Valle del Sol Golf Course near Santa Ana. The 2006 event was renamed in order to pay tribute to the tournaments founder and promoter, Kai Fieberg, who had been killed in a car accident earlier in the year.[1]

In 1979 and 1980, Cariari hosted the PGA sponsored Friendship Cup, which is sometimes also referred to as the Costa Rica Open. These tournaments were won by Raymond Floyd and Larry Ziegler.

Winners
YearVenueWinnerScore
Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open
2007Cariari Country Club Miguel Rodríguez275 (-9)
2006Cariari Country Club Johan Axgren277 (-7)PO
Costa Rica Open 2005 American Express presented by BETonSPORTS.com
2005Cariari Country Club Kyle Dobbs280 (-4)PO
Costa Rica Open
2004Valle del Sol Golf Course Alessandro Tadini278 (-6)PO
Costa Rica Open presented by Credomatic MasterCard
2003Cariari Country Club Sebastián Fernández278 (-6)PO
American Express Costa Rica Open
2002Cariari Country Club Rafael Gómez289 (+5)PO

PO - Won after play-off

gollark: LyricLy. We all know you have extra lives via the extra citizenships.
gollark: I'd not like to be injured.
gollark: I am not in fact injured by keyboard use.
gollark: I type fast enough with QWERTY so I don't care.
gollark: No.

References
  1. "Costa Rica Open 2006 Pays Posthumous Tribute to Kai Fieberg". insidecostarica.com. January 19, 2006. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.