Sanderson Farms Championship
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The Sanderson Farms Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, played annually in Mississippi. It moved to the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson in autumn 2014, early in the 2015 season.
Tournament information | |
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Location | Jackson, Mississippi |
Established | 1968 |
Course(s) | Country Club of Jackson |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,461 yards (6,822 m) |
Organized by | Century Club Charities |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$8,200,000 |
Month played | October |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 263 Dan Halldorson (1986) |
To par | ā24 Scott Stallings (2012) |
Current champion | |
Luke List | |
Location map | |
The tournament has been part of the PGA Tour schedule since 1968, and has raised more than $8.1 million for statewide charities. Originally played at the Hattiesburg Country Club in Hattiesburg, the event moved in 1994 to Annandale Golf Club in Madison, which hosted through 2013.
Since 2013, the tournament's title sponsor has been Sanderson Farms, a poultry farming corporation based in Laurel, Mississippi. The tournament's host organization, Century Club Charities, is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is promoting the game of golf for the benefit of charity. The Sanderson Farms Championship's primary charity is Friends of Children's Hospital, which benefits the Batson's Children Hospital.