In 1987, Team USA Ryder Cup Captain Paul Azinger eagled the 18th hole at Las Vegas Country Club to win the 1987 Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational and earn the largest first prize in PGA Tour history.
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September 19, 2008–Paul Azinger, the 2008 United States Ryder Cup captain, recently made Las Vegas golfer Chad Campbell (he was an All-American at UNLV) a Captain’s Pick, but Azinger’s ties to Las Vegas golf and Las Vegas golf courses go back a lot farther than that. During the final round of the 1987 Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational, Azinger stood on the tee box of the par 5, 18th hole at Las Vegas Country Club with a goal in mind. He was tied with Hal Sutton and Curtis Strange. “‘I wasn’t thinking of eagle, but trying to make a birdie,” Azinger told the media following the round. But eagle is exactly what Azinger made, rolling in a long and breaking 30-footer. He then narrowly avoided falling in the lake that fronts the green during his post-putt celebration.
“I can’t believe that putt went in,” he said later. For his efforts, Azinger won $225,000, the largest first-place check in PGA Tour history to that point. The Las Vegas event debuted on the PGA Tour in 1983 (Fuzzy Zoeller won) and quickly made news by becoming the first event with a million-dollar purse.
Sutton, the 2004 Ryder Cup Captain, was eyeing eagle on the tee and thought the 18th hole was playing very short. ”I knew one of the three of us would make an eagle on that hole,” he said. ”It was playing like a par-4, sort of.” Sutton made birdie to finish one shot out of the lead. The 1987 event is one of the highlights in Las Vegas golf history.
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