Small Business Connection Championship

The Small Business Connection Championship was a golf tournament on the Web.com Tour. It was played for the first time as the Chiquita Classic in July 2010 at TPC River's Bend in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] Tommy Gainey won the inaugural event in 2010 by 3 strokes at 27-under-par.

Small Business Connection Championship
Tournament information
LocationCharlotte, North Carolina
Established2010
Course(s)River Run Country Club
Par72
Length7,317 yards (6,691 m)
Tour(s)Web.com Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$1,000,000
Month playedSeptember
Final year2015
Tournament record score
Aggregate261 Tommy Gainey (2010)
To par−27 as above
Final champion
Chez Reavie
Location Map
River Run CC
Location in the United States
River Run CC
Location in North Carolina

From 2013 to 2015, it was part of the Web.com Tour Finals and the field consisted of the top 75 players from the Web.Com Tour money list and the players ranked 126 to 200 on the PGA Tour's money list at the start of the Finals.[2] The tournament was moved to River Run Country Club in Davidson, North Carolina from 2013 onward and the purse was set at US$1,000,000, with $180,000 going to the winner.

Winners
Web.com Tour (Finals)2013–2015
Web.com Tour (Regular)2010–2012
#YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
Small Business Connection Championship at River Run
6th 2015 Chez Reavie273−151 stroke Emiliano Grillo
Jamie Lovemark
Steve Marino
Chiquita Classic
5th 2014 Adam Hadwin270−182 strokes John Peterson
4th 2013 Andrew Svoboda276−12Playoff Will MacKenzie
3rd 2012 Russell Henley266−22Playoff Patrick Cantlay
Morgan Hoffmann
2nd 2011 Russell Knox263−253 strokes Billy Hurley III
1st 2010 Tommy Gainey261−273 strokes Joe Affrunti

Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the final Web.com Tour money list, in the pre-Finals era. When the event was part of the Web.com Tour Finals, all winners and runners-up earned PGA Tour cards.

References
  1. Nationwide Tour to play new Chiquita Classic in Cincinnati Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "PGA Tour announces 2013 Web.com Tour schedule". PGA Tour. December 13, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
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