National Team Championship

Golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour

Golf tournament

National Team ChampionshipTournament information

Location| Ligonier, Pennsylvania
Established| 1965
Course(s)| Laurel Valley Golf Club
Par| 71
Tour(s)| PGA Tour
Format| Team stroke play
Prize fund| US$200,000
Month played| July
Final year| 1972
Tournament record score
Aggregate| 256 Jack Nicklaus and
Arnold Palmer (1966)
To par| −32 as above
Final champion
Babe Hiskey and
Kermit Zarley
Location map

Laurel Valley GC

Location in the United States

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Laurel Valley GC

Location in Pennsylvania

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The National Team Championship, which was played under a variety of names, was a team golf tournament played from 1965 to 1972. It was an official PGA Tour event from 1968 to 1972.[1]

## Tournament hosts

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* 1965–1966 PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
* 1968 Quail Creek Golf & Country Club and Twin Hills Golf & Country Club, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
* 1970–1972 Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania (an 18-hole, par-71 championship course that opened in 1959, and was originally designed by Dick Wilson.[2][3])

## Winners

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Year | Tour[a] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of
victory | Runners-up

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National Team Championship
1972 | PGAT |  Babe Hiskey and
Kermit Zarley | 262 | −22 | 3 strokes |  Grier Jones and
Johnny Miller
1971 | PGAT |  Jack Nicklaus (3) and
Arnold Palmer (3) | 257 | −27 | 6 strokes |  Julius Boros and
Bill Collins
Bob Charles and
Bruce Devlin
National Four-Ball Team Championship
1970 | PGAT |  Jack Nicklaus (2) and
Arnold Palmer (2) | 259 | −25 | 3 strokes |  George Archer and
Bobby Nichols
Bruce Crampton and
Orville Moody
Gardner Dickinson and
Sam Snead
1969: No tournament
PGA National Team Championship
1968 | PGAT |  George Archer and
Bobby Nichols | 265 | −22 | 2 strokes |  Monty Kaser and
Rives McBee
1967: No tournament
PGA Team Championship
1966 |  |  Jack Nicklaus and
Arnold Palmer | 256 | −32 | 3 strokes |  Al Besselink and
Doug Sanders
PGA National Four-ball Championship
1965 |  |  Butch Baird and
Gay Brewer | 259 | −29 | 3 strokes |  Jay Hebert and
Lionel Hebert

## Notes

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1. ^ PGAT − PGA Tour.

## References

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1. ^ "Just in ...". Golf World. Vol. 66, no. 10\. September 17, 2012. p. 15.
2. ^ "Tournament history from Arnold Palmer's official site". Archived from the original on September 22, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2007.
3. ^ "Laurel Valley Golf Club". Retrieved December 24, 2007.

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