AT&T National PGA Tournament
AT&T National - June 30 - July 3, 2011
Aronimink Golf Club · Philadelphia
Purse: $6.2 million - Winning Share: $1,080,000
FedExCup Points: 500
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Trying to figure out, just how many AT&Ts golf tournaments there are? It's not easy separating the AT&T sponsored pro golf tournaments these days.
There's the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, which is played in February. There's the AT&T Classic, formerly called the BellSouth Classic, and then there's "Tiger's Tournament," known formally as the AT&T National, which will be played the first weekend of July.
In 2010 and 2011, Aronimink Golf Club, in Newtown Square, will be home to the AT&T National. The fourth annual AT&T National will be held in Philadelphia at Aronimink Golf Club from June 28 - July 4, 2010. AT&T National will be very competitive and challenging this year at the 7,237-yard, par 70 layout, with three of the year's PGA TOUR winners already
Eight days before the start of British Open week and is regarded as a key opportunity for the star-studded field to prove their games are on track. Bet on 120 PGA TOUR professionals as they compete for the AT&T National title and the prize purse of $6.2 million.
Some of the best golfers in the world will be on hand in Newton Square looking to unseat last year's winner. Tiger Woods is the defending AT&T National champion, winning in 2009 with a 13-under-par score of 267, the current tournament record. Tiger appeared to be well on his way to his 68th PGA TOUR win last season, but a surging Hunter Mahan made him work for it, forcing Woods to finish birdie-par-par at tough Congressional en route to winning by only a single stroke.
Aronimink championship golf course
Aronimink is a private golf club located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Its championship golf course is consistently rated among the top 100 Golf Courses in the United States. Aronimink will play at 7,206 yards of golf from its tournament tees for a par of 70. The course rating is 75.2 and it has a slope rating of 128 on Bent grass. Designed by Donald J. Ross, ASGCA, Aronimink was formed in 1896 and has been at its present location in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania since 1928. It has hosted the 1962 PGA Championship, won by Gary Player, and the 2003 Senior PGA Championship won by John Jacobs, as well as the US Amateur in 1977 won by John Fought, and the US Junior Amateur in 1997 won by Jason Allred.
2011 AT&T National Golf Winner
 Nick Watney capped off an amazing weekend to win the AT&T National on Sunday, moving him to No. 10 in the world and atop the PGA Tour money list for the first time in his career.
Watney closed with a 4-under 66 on a steamy afternoon in the Philadelphia suburbs, making three big par saves and three birdies on the front nine to seize control, then holding off a late charge by K.J. Choi for a two-shot victory.
And to think that with only 27 holes left in the tournament, Watney was trying to keep from getting left behind. Ten birdies, an eagle and no bogeys later, he was posing with the silver trophy of a Liberty Bell and wondering how much better he could get.
2010 AT&T National Golf Winner
 Justin Rose lost another big lead. This time, he didn't lose the tournament.
Staked to a five-shot lead at the turn, Rose finished with seven straight pars and closed with an even-par 70 to hold on for a one-shot victory in the AT&T National, his second PGA Tour title in his last three events.
It would have been three straight wins for the 29-year-old Englishman except for his collapse last week at the Travelers Championship in Hartford, Conn. Rose blew a three-shot lead in the final round with a 75, and he was determined not to let that happen again.
Rose had to sweat it out on a steamy afternoon at Aronimink
He had three-putt bogeys on the 10th and 11th holes — after having gone 274 consecutive holes without one on the PGA Tour — and suddenly his lead was down to two. Then came a furious charge from Ryan Moore, who one-putted his last eight greens for a 65 to close within one shot.
Rose was steady down the stretch, however, and calmly rolled in a 30-inch par putt on the last hole for the victory.
2009 AT&T National Golf Winner
When Roger Federer won Wimbledon on Sunday, though, there could be no such gloating from Camp Woods. The tennis master now leads his PGA Tour buddy by a score of 15-14 in overall major victories, leaving Tiger to simply text from the Congressional Country Club practice range prior to his final round: "Great job. Now it's my turn."
Though Woods insisted "my turn" was in reference to winning the AT&T National later in the afternoon, it could have served as a warning that the man still stuck -- if such a word even applies -- on 14 major titles is ready to once again match his buddy in that category.
As if that wasn't warning enough, there was the final result, too.
Some five hours after Federer vanquished Andy Roddick in an epic final match, Woods overcame a furious final-round flurry from Hunter Mahan to prevail at the AT&T.
2008 AT&T National Golf winner - Anthony Kim
The AT&T National was Kim's second victory this year (he also won the Wachovia the first weekend in April) and he's made a steady climb up the rankings.
Kim also joined some elite company. In the last 10 years, the only other players under 25 with multiple PGA Tour victories in the same season are Woods, Sergio Garcia and Adam Scott.
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