The RJR Championship was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour from 1987 to 2002. It was played in Clemmons, North Carolina at Tanglewood Park.
The purse for the 2002 tournament was US$1,600,000, with $240,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1987 as the Vantage Championship with Vantage cigarettes as the sponsor, although it switched to the corporate-branded RJR Championship in 1989 and 2002, the latter due to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company were restricted to one sports sponsorship in the rulings developed by the settlement, to which the company opted to choose NASCAR Winston Cup Series as the cigarette-branded sponsorship that lasted until 2003.
Winners RJR Championship 2002 Bruce Fleisher
Vantage Championship 2001 canceled due to the September 11, 2001 attacks 2000 Larry Nelson 1999 Fred Gibson 1998 Gil Morgan 1997 Hale Irwin 1996 Jim Colbert 1995 Hale Irwin 1994 Larry Gilbert 1993 Lee Trevino 1992 Jim Colbert 1991 Jim Colbert 1990 Charles Coody
RJR Championship 1989 Gary Player
Vantage Championship 1988 Walt Zembriski 1987 Al Geiberger
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