Greater Vancouver Open

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History

For its first three years, it was an alternate event in late August, concurrent with the NEC World Series of Golf at Firestone in Akron, Ohio. In 1999, the new Reno-Tahoe Open became the alternate event for the WGC-NEC Invitational at Firestone. The Vancouver tournament was promoted to a regular tour event and scheduled a week later, as the Greater Milwaukee Open moved up to July. Renamed the "Air Canada Championship," sponsored by the country's leading airline, it was coupled with the Canadian Open for consecutive tournaments north of the U.S. border in early September.

Mike Weir won that year for the first of his eight tour wins; he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event on home soil in 45 years.[1][2]

The purses grew substantially during the run of the event, from $1 million to $3.5 million in six years. It was replaced on the schedule in 2003 by the Deutsche Bank Championship in Massachusetts, near Boston.

This was not the first time the PGA Tour included a stop in British Columbia on their schedule. Dow Finsterwald won the unofficial 1955 British Columbia Open Invitational, and Jim Ferree was victorious at the 1958 Vancouver Open Invitational.[3]

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Purse
(US$)		 Winner's
share ($)		 Ref.
Air Canada Championship
2002 Template:Flagicon Gene Sauers 269 −15 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Steve Lowery 3,500,000 630,000 [4]
2001 Template:Flagicon Joel Edwards 265 −19 7 strokes Template:Flagicon Steve Lowery 3,400,000 612,000 [5]
2000 Template:Flagicon Rory Sabbatini 268 −16 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Grant Waite 3,000,000 540,000 [6][7]
1999 Template:Flagicon Mike Weir 266 −18 2 strokes Template:Flagicon Fred Funk 2,500,000 450,000 [1][2]
Greater Vancouver Open
1998 Template:Flagicon Brandel Chamblee 265 −19 3 strokes Template:Flagicon Payne Stewart 2,000,000 360,000 [8]
1997 Template:Flagicon Mark Calcavecchia 265 −19 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Andrew Magee 1,500,000 270,000 [9]
1996 Template:Flagicon Guy Boros 272 −12 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Emlyn Aubrey
Template:Flagicon Lee Janzen
Template:Flagicon Taylor Smith		 1,000,000 180,000 [10]
1959–1995: No tournament
Vancouver Open Invitational
1958 Template:Flagicon Jim Ferree 270 −18 1 stroke Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 42,000 6,400

References

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External links

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