HP Byron Nelson Championship
May 26 - 29, 2011
Location: Irving, TX
Venue: TPC Four Seasons Resort
Purse: 6.5 Million
 Since its inception in 1968, the Byron Nelson Championship has raised more than $107 million to help thousands of troubled and at-risk children and their families each year. The 2011 HP Byron Nelson Championship will take place May 26-29 at the Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas in Irving, Texas.
A PGA Tour tradition since 1944, the Byron Nelson Championship tees off at TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas in Texas this May. The PGA Tour Byron Nelson Championship started out as the Dallas Open, and Byron Nelson himself won the first one in 1944. The tournament was known as the Byron Nelson Classic for much of its history. Nelson hosted the event from his seat off the 18th green, greeting each year's winner as the champion walked off the green, right up until the year of his death in 2006. Past winners of this venerable tournament include Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson, and Ernie Els.
PGA Tour HP Byron Nelson Championship Records:
* Overall record: 262 - Loren Roberts, Steve Pate, 1999
* Tournament course record: TPC Las Colinas course - 61, Billy Mayfair, 1993; Charlie Rymer, 1996; Justin Leonard, 2001. Cottonwood Valley course - 60, Arron Oberholser, 2006
2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship results
The youth movement on the PGA Tour continued Sunday as 22 year old Jason Day won his first tournament by taking the Byron Nelson Championship in Texas. Day continues the trend of young guns winning on the Tour as Anthony Kim, Adam Scott, Rory McIlroy, and Dustin Johnson are among the winners on the Tour this year that are under the age of 30.
Jason thought about dropping out of the Nelson Championship on Thursday because of a lingering sickness. Jason Day fought off new medication, sickness and the stunning emergence of 16-year old Jordan Spieth to win the Byron Nelson Championship.
Despite shooting 2 over for the day, Jason Day was able to avoid the charge from Jeff Overton. Day chipped on to the 18th green and then sank a 14-foot bogey-putt for a two-stroke victory. The championship is the first for Day on the PGA Tour and the victory has earned him a spot in this year's PGA Championship, which will be his first time at the event.
2011 HP Byron Nelson Championship Winner
 Keegan Bradley won the Byron Nelson Championship for his first PGA Tour victory, parring the first hole of a playoff with Ryan Palmer on Sunday.
Bradley, the nephew of LPGA Tour great Pat Bradley, sank a 2-foot par putt at the 419-yard 18th hole in the playoff. Palmer's approach went into the water and he made a bogey with a 13-foot putt.
About an hour earlier, Bradley finished his closing round of 2-under 68 with a par at No. 18, hopping a few times in frustration when his 10-foot birdie chance slid by the hole.
Palmer (72) and Bradley finished at 3-under 277, the highest winning score on the PGA Tour this year. It was the fifth playoff in six weeks.
2009 HP Byron Nelson Championship winner
With record scores being thrown down, Fort Worth's Rory Sabbatini hardly blinked. Rather, he thrived on the electric atmosphere. Leading by two strokes with two holes to play, he bucked conventional thinking. He sent an 8-iron shot toward the flag on the dangerous par-3 flanked by water.
His ball plopped down eight feet from the hole, he made the birdie putt, and "Rory's Rowdies" erupted. He walked to the 18th tee with the HP Byron Nelson Championship in his back pocket.
2008 HP Byron Nelson Championship winner
Adam Scott birdied the final hole of regulation to tie Ryan Moore at 7-under 273 and force a playoff. Then, on the third playoff hole, Scott rolled in a 48-foot putt. Moore's putt to tie skirted the edge of the hole, and Scott was the winner.
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