Albertsons Boise Open

Tournament information
Location	Boise, Idaho
Established	1990
Course(s)	Hillcrest Country Club
Par	71
Length	6,726 yards (6,150 m)[1]
Tour(s)	Korn Ferry Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$1,500,000
Month played	August
Tournament record score
Aggregate	256 Martin Piller (2015) 256 Chan Kim (2023)
To par	−28 as above
Current champion
Chan Kim
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The Albertsons Boise Open is a professional golf tournament in Idaho on the Korn Ferry Tour, played annually at Hillcrest Country Club in Boise. Held in mid-September for its first 23 years, the new September playoff schedule of the Web.com Tour in 2013 moved the Boise event up to late July. The event returned to mid-September in 2016, and became part of the Web.com Tour Finals as the penultimate event. The schedule was revised for 2019 and it moved to late August.

History

The tournament has been played every year since 1990, the first year of the tour, then known as the Ben Hogan Tour.^[2] It is one of four original tournaments on the current schedule.^[3] Future notable names in the top 20 that first year were Tom Lehman, John Daly, Jeff Maggert, and Stephen Ames;^[4] David Toms made the cut.

Golf has been played on the site since the 1920s, originally named Idaho Country Club. Established in 1940, Hillcrest Country Club has been the only home of the tournament since its inception. The Boise Open was a 54-hole tournament for its first six years,^[4][5] a fourth round was added in 1996.^[6]

This stop in southwestern Idaho consistently offers one of the top purses on the Korn Ferry Tour. The 2019 purse is expected to be $1.0 million, with a winner's share of $180,000. The first purse in 1990 was $100,000, with a winner's share of $20,000;^[4] the first six-figure winner's share went to Tim Clark in 2000.^[7]

The 2003 event featured 13-year-old Michelle Wie, the youngest ever to play on the tour;^[8] she carded 78-76 and missed the cut by twelve strokes.^[9][10]

Chris Tidland shot 264 (−20) to win by four strokes in 2008; Fran Quinn shot 270 (−14) in 2009 with a birdie on the final hole to edge third round leader Blake Adams by a single stroke.^[11] Hunter Haas shot 263 (−21) in 2010 to win by one stroke over Daniel Summerhays.^[12]

At the 2015 edition, retired Army Corporal Chad Pfeifer became the first veteran amputee to play on the Web.com Tour, but missed the cut. He lost his left leg in a 2007 explosion and earned entry through a sponsor exemption.

Albertsons, a major supermarket retailer in the western U.S., has been the title sponsor since 2002. The grocery chain was founded 85 years ago by Joe Albertson in 1939 in Boise, and the company was headquartered in the city until 2006, when it was acquired by Supervalu of Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The company has committed to sponsorship of the tournament through 2016.^[13]

Course layout

Course in 2014^[1]

• The nines are switched for the members, who play the original nine holes (north) first.
• The elevation at the clubhouse is approximately 2,800 feet (855 m) above sea level.^[14]

Winners

#	Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Albertsons Boise Open
34th	2023	Chan Kim	256	−28	2 strokes	David Kocher
33rd	2022	Will Gordon	263	−21	Playoff	M. J. Daffue Philip Knowles
32nd	2021	Greyson Sigg	265	−19	1 stroke	Aaron Rai J. J. Spaun
31st	2020	Stephan Jäger	262	−22	2 strokes	Dan McCarthy Brandon Wu
30th	2019	Matthew NeSmith	265	−19	1 stroke	Brandon Hagy Viktor Hovland
29th	2018	Bae Sang-moon	265	−19	1 stroke	Anders Albertson Adam Schenk Roger Sloan
28th	2017	Chesson Hadley	268	−16	1 stroke	Ted Potter Jr. Jonathan Randolph
27th	2016	Michael Thompson	261	−23	3 strokes	Miguel Ángel Carballo
26th	2015	Martin Piller	256	−28	6 strokes	Jorge Fernández-Valdés
25th	2014	Steve Wheatcroft	260	−24	Playoff	Steven Alker
24th	2013	Kevin Tway	261	−23	Playoff	Spencer Levin
23rd	2012	Luke Guthrie	262	−22	4 strokes	Scott Gardiner Richard H. Lee Michael Putnam Steve Wheatcroft
22nd	2011	Jason Kokrak	266	−18	2 strokes	John Mallinger
21st	2010	Hunter Haas	263	−21	1 stroke	Daniel Summerhays
20th	2009	Fran Quinn	270	−14	1 stroke	Blake Adams
19th	2008	Chris Tidland	264	−20	4 strokes	Scott Piercy
18th	2007	Jon Mills	263	−21	1 stroke	D. A. Points
17th	2006	Kevin Stadler	264	−20	1 stroke	Glen Day
16th	2005	Greg Chalmers	269	−15	Playoff	Danny Ellis
15th	2004	Scott Gump	270	−14	2 strokes	Michael Long Jimmy Walker
14th	2003	Roger Tambellini	267	−17	6 strokes	Tripp Isenhour Charles Warren
13th	2002	Jason Gore	273	−11	2 strokes	Emlyn Aubrey Barry Cheesman
Buy.com Boise Open
12th	2001	Michael Long	270	−14	1 stroke	Tjaart van der Walt
11th	2000	Tim Clark	269	−15	6 strokes	Patrick Burke Steve Haskins
Nike Boise Open
10th	1999	Carl Paulson	266	−18	4 strokes	Joel Edwards Michael Muehr
9th	1998	Mike Sposa	265	−19	2 strokes	Notah Begay III Dennis Paulson
8th	1997	Iain Steel	267	−17	3 strokes	Carl Paulson
7th	1996	Matt Gogel	270	−14	1 stroke	David Berganio Jr. Stewart Cink Brett Quigley
6th	1995	Frank Lickliter	200	−13	1 stroke	Kevin Burton Craig Kanada
5th	1994	Keith Fergus	198	−15	Playoff	Bill Murchison
4th	1993	Tommy Moore	199	−14	3 strokes	Olin Browne
Ben Hogan Boise Open
3rd	1992	Jaime Gomez	202	−11	1 stroke	Sean Murphy
2nd	1991	Russell Beiersdorf	202	−11	Playoff	Rich Parker
1st	1990	Ricky Smallridge	199	−14	3 strokes	David Hobby Robert Thompson Greg Whisman

Source:^[15]

Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Korn Ferry Tour regular-season money list, in years that the event was not part of the old Korn Ferry Tour Finals system. In years that the event was part of that system, all winners and runners-up earned PGA Tour cards.