PGA Tour Heads to the Heartland for John Deere Classic
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The PGA Tour heads to the Quad Cities for the appropriately named John Deere Classic this week. The four-day tournament, formerly named the Quad Cities Open, has been played at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois since 2000. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Quad Cities, that’s Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa and Moline and Rock Island, Illinois; Silvis is located just outside of Moline.)
The defending champion at the John Deere Classic is Jonathan Byrd, pictured above. The tournament is also noteworthy as being the first PGA win for Payne Stewart (in 1982) and nearly the first for Tiger Woods (he lost by one stroke in the final round to Ed Fiori in 1996).
Teenage women’s golfing sensation, Michelle Wie received an exemption to the tournament in 2005 and came within two strokes of making the cut. She played the tournament again in 2006 on a sponsor’s exemption, but dropped out during the second round (and eight strokes over the anticipated cut line), citing heat exhaustion.
This year’s field includes more than 150 golfers, including Byrd, Zach Johnson, Camilio Villegas, Mark Calcavecchia, and Steve Marino.
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