![]() Two players to be selected by the current and former champions of the Colonial tournament ( Champions Choices).Presidents Cup team, and International President's Cup team Current PGA Tour members who were playing members on the last named European Ryder Cup team, U.S.Playing members on the last named U.S.PGA Tour tournament winners since the last Colonial tournament.Arnold Palmer Invitational and Memorial winners in the past three years.The Tour Championship and World Golf Championships winners in the past three years.The Players Championship and major championship winners in the last five years.Colonial Winners in top 150 of prior year FedEx Cup points list.Colonial winners prior to 2000 and in the last five years.The field consists of at least 120 players invited using the following criteria: Furthermore, unlike full-field open tournaments, invitational tournaments do not offer open qualifying (aka Monday qualifying). ![]() Invitational tournaments have smaller fields (between 120 and 132 players), and have more freedom than full-field open tournaments in determining which players are eligible to participate in their event, as invitational tournaments have slightly different criteria for player eligibility in the PGA Tour Priority Ranking System. However, the 2020 event was staged with 144 players to help make up for the loss of several tournaments canceled earlier in the year. The other four tournaments with invitational status are the Genesis Open, Arnold Palmer Invitational, the RBC Heritage, and the Memorial Tournament. The Charles Schwab Challenge is one of only five tournaments given "invitational" status by the PGA Tour, and consequently it has a reduced field of approximately 120 players (as opposed to most full-field open tournaments with a field of 144 or 156 players). and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway agreed to help fund the 2018 tournament to allow time for the PGA TOUR and Colonial Country Club to find a new sponsor. The 2018 tournament, renamed the Fort Worth Invitational, was held through the support of four local corporate supporters that had stepped-in to provide financial support after Dean & DeLuca suddenly pulled-out of a six-year sponsorship agreement. Even the unsponsored 2018 event used the name Fort Worth Invitational, as opposed to "Colonial National Invitation" which was used the last time the event was without a sponsor back in 1995. The event name had "Colonial" in its title through 2015, when the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial was renamed the Dean & DeLuca Invitational. There was no title sponsor in 1995 or 2018. The Charles Schwab Corporation became the title sponsor of the event for a four-year deal starting in 2019. In the interests of maximum health and safety, the event had no spectators, a PGA Tour first. In 2020, the tournament was held June 11–14 as the first PGA Tour event staged since the interruption of the regular schedule in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sörenstam's participation drew high media attention, but she shot 71 and 74 and missed the cut by four strokes. ![]() Īnnika Sörenstam played in the 2003 tournament and became the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event in 58 years, since Babe Zaharias made three cuts as an amateur in 1945. Hogan's final three major wins were consecutive in 1953 a statue of him at swing completion is near the clubhouse. One of the top players in golf history, he won nine major titles, six after a near-fatal automobile collision in 1949 that kept him hospitalized for two months. The tournament is unofficially associated with Ben Hogan (1912–1997), the long-time Fort Worth resident who won the tournament five times, the most of any player. Another tradition feeding Colonial history is the Wall of Champions on the first tee, engraved with the name and score of each champion dating back to 1946, plus the 1975 Tournament Players Championship, 1941 U.S. The tournament was founded 77 years ago in 1946, and honors the history of golf by using an official Scottish tartan plaid jacket for its champions and top committee chairmen. It is one of five invitational tournaments on the PGA Tour the inaugural event was held 77 years ago in 1946. The Colonial National Invitation, titled for sponsorship reasons as the Charles Schwab Challenge since 2019, is a professional golf tournament in Texas on the PGA Tour, played annually in May in Fort Worth at Colonial Country Club, which organizes the event.
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