Verizon Heritage
The Verizon Heritage is an invitational golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It has been played annually in April since 1969 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on the Harbour Town Golf Links at the Sea Pines Resort. Verizon took over as the main sponsor of the event in 2006.
The 2006 purse was $5,300,000, with $954,000 going to winner Aaron Baddeley. The tournament is ususally contested the week after The Masters. Davis Love III is the most prolific winner of the event, winning 5 tournaments.
[edit] The Heritage Classic Foundation
The Heritage Classic Foundation, general sponsor of the Verizon Heritage, provides the financial stability, guidance and direction to the tournament. After each tournament, the Foundation distributes revenue produced by the event to a wide variety of charitable organizations, universities and medical institutions. In 2005, the Heritage Classic Foundation donated $1.55 million dollars, bringing the total to close to $13 million since it was organized.
[edit] Winners
- 2006 Aaron Baddeley
MCI Heritage
- 2005 Peter Lonard
- 2004 Stewart Cink
- 2003 Davis Love III
WORLDCOM Classic - The Heritage of Golf
- 2002 Justin Leonard
- 2001 José Cóceres
MCI Classic
- 2000 Stewart Cink
- 1999 Glen Day
- 1998 Davis Love III
- 1997 Nick Price
- 1996 Loren Roberts
- 1995 Bob Tway
MCI Heritage Golf Classic
- 1994 Hale Irwin
- 1993 David Edwards
- 1992 Davis Love III
- 1991 Davis Love III
- 1990 Payne Stewart
- 1989 Payne Stewart
- 1988 Greg Norman
- 1987 Davis Love III
Sea Pines Heritage
- 1986 Fuzzy Zoeller
- 1985 Bernhard Langer
- 1984 Nick Faldo
- 1983 Fuzzy Zoeller
- 1982 Tom Watson
- 1981 Bill Rogers
- 1980 Doug Tewell
Sea Pines Heritage Classic
- 1979 Tom Watson
Heritage Classic
- 1978 Hubert Green
- 1977 Graham Marsh
Sea Pines Heritage Classic
- 1976 Hubert Green
- 1975 Jack Nicklaus
- 1974 Johnny Miller
- 1973 Hale Irwin
- 1972 Johnny Miller
- 1971 Hale Irwin
Heritage Golf Classic
- 1970 Bob Goalby
- 1969 Arnold Palmer
