Significant Tournaments at Callaway Gardens Listed by Year 1950s

1951 Men’s One-day Golf Tourney at Ida Cason Gardens (won by Jack Key of Columbus, GA., who went on to win six tournaments at Callaway. Key is a member of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame and co-founder of the Fred Haskins Award.)

1952 Ida Cason Gardens Mixed Four-Ball Tournament (won by Jack Key and Bebe Smith)

1958 Georgia Women’s Golf Association (GWGA) Georgia State Medal Play Championship (won by Janice Phelps)

1963 34^th GWGA Amateur Match Play Championship (won by Mrs. Grady McDonald)

1965 GSGA-GPGA Challenge Cup (won by GPGA)

1966 GSGA-GPGA Challenge Cup (won by GPGA)

1968 39^th GWGA Amateur Match Play Championship (won by Mrs. Tom Molloy)
1970s

1970 All-Dixie Intercollegiate Golf Tournament. Later to be re-named the G. Gunby Jordan Intercollegiate Invitational (won by Lanny Wadkins). 1970 was the first year the Fred Haskins Award was ever presented. Ben Crenshaw received the award during the All-Dixie Intercollegiate at Callaway Gardens.

1970 SEC Men’s Golf All-Time Championship

1971 SEC Men’s Golf All-Time Championship

1972 SEC Men’s Golf All-Time Championship

1973 SEC Men’s Golf All-Time Championship

1975 PGA Club Professional Championship – the largest professional golf tournament anywhere- close to 350 pros (won by Roger Watson)

1976 PGA Club Professional Championship (won by Bob Galloway)

1977 PGA Club Professional Championship (won by Laurie Hammer)

1978 PGA Club Professional Championship (won by John Gentile)

1979 PGA Club Professional Championship (won by Buddy Whitten)
1980s

1980-1986 Country Gentleman’s/Chet Atkins Celebrity Amateur (Floyd Kramer, Boots Randolph, Jimmy Proffet; Charlie Pride; Ray Stevens; Jerry Chestnut [wrote Elvis Songs]; Minnie Pearl; Perry Como, Little Jimmy Dickins, Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner). Duration of tournament at Callaway Gardens is not clear.

1983 GSGA GA-FL Women’s Team Matches

1982 SEC Women’s Golf All-Time Championship

1983 SEC Women’s Golf All-Time Championship

1984 SEC Women’s Golf All-Time Championship

1985 SEC Women’s Golf All-Time Championship

1986 SEC Women’s Golf All-Time Championship

1987 SEC Women’s Golf All-Time Championship
1990s

1991 PGA Tour’s Buick Southern Open (Won by David Peoples)

1992 PGA Tour’s Buick Southern Open (Won by Gary Hallberg)

1993 PGA Tour’s Buick Southern Open (Won by John Inman)

1994 PGA Tour’s Buick Southern Open (Won by Steve Elkington)

1995 PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Fred Funk)

1996 PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Michael Bradley)

1997 PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Davis Love III)

1998 PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Steve Elkington)

1999 PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by David Toms)

2000 (Sept. 2) G. Gunby Jordan Intercollegiate Golf Tournament (Play suspended; no winner)

2000 PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by David Duval)

2001 PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Chris DiMarco)

2002 PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Jonathan Byrd)

2005 U.S. Kids Golf Atlanta Tour Championship

2005 (Oct. 8-10) Family Challenge U.S. Kids Golf Two-Day Tournament – Inaugural

2006 Callaway Gardens Collegiate Invitational

2006 Southeastern Junior Golf Tour: Callaway Gardens Junior Classic

2006 GSGA Senior Women’s Championship

2006 PGA Georgia Section Match Play Championship

2006 PGA Georgia Section Callaway Gardens Junior Classic (third year)