National_Team_Championship References

National Team Championship
Tournament 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 Laurel Valley GC Location in Pennsylvania

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

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

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

^ PGAT − PGA Tour.

References

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

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[4] PGAT − PGA Tour.

[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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