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)
1960s
1963
1965
1966
1968
34th GWGA Amateur Match Play Championship (won by Mrs. Grady McDonald)
GSGA-GPGA Challenge Cup (won by GPGA)
GSGA-GPGA Challenge Cup (won by GPGA)
39th 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
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
PGA Tour’s Buick Southern Open (Won by John Inman)
PGA Tour’s Buick Southern Open (Won by Steve Elkington)
PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Fred Funk)
PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Michael Bradley)
PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Davis Love III)
PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by Steve Elkington)
PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge (Won by David Toms)
2000s
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)
2006 (February) Arrowhead Junior Golf Tour’s Callaway Gardens Junior Classic
2006 (August) Arrowhead Junior Golf Tour’s Callaway Lake View Junior Classic