Date: July 28 - August 3, 2008
Host Venue: Montrêux Golf and Country Club
Purse: 3,000,000
Television: The Golf Channel.
The Legends Reno-Tahoe Open PGA TOUR is scheduled for July 28 - August 3, 2008 at Montrêux Golf & Country Club
in Reno and is broadcast nationally on the Golf Channel. Now in its ninth year, the tournament is the only
PGA TOUR event in northern Nevada and features a field of 132 PGA TOUR professionals competing for a $3
million purse. The Legends Reno-Tahoe Open is operated and managed by the Reno-Tahoe Open Foundation a 501 (c) (3)
non profit corporation comprised of its foundation members including the Eldorado Hotel Casino, Montrêux
Development Group, Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, Sierra Pacific Resources and Employers Insurance Group.
Recognized as one of the players favorite stops on the PGA TOUR, the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open strives to create a first
class tournament for our spectators, local and national corporate business partners, PGA TOUR players and our
volunteers. The Legends Reno-Tahoe Open has a significant economic impact for our region and highlights our region as
a world class golf destination through national media coverage.
Year - Winner - Total Score
1999 - Notah Begay III - 274
2000 - Scott Verplank - 275
2001 - John Cook - 271
2002 - Chris Riley - 271
2003 - Kirk Triplett - 271
2004 - Vaughn Taylor - 278
2005 - Vaughn Taylor - 267
2006 - Will MacKenzie - 268
2007 - Steve Flesch - 273
Tournament Record
267- Vaughn Taylor- 2005
Tournament Course Record
62, Bill Glasson, 2005
In 2006 Yusaku Miyazato accomplished the unprecedented feat on a pair of par 3s by acing hole # 7 and
hole # 12 in the same round. He hit a 4-iron on the 230-yard, downhill seventh hole and a 7-iron
on the 173-yard, uphill No. 12 at the Montrêux Golf and Country Club's mountain course designed by Jack Nicklaus.
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