This week the PGA Tour heads to Las Vegas for the Shriners Children’s Open.
First staged in 1983, this event is probably best known for what happened in 1996. That year, the Las Vegas Invitational, as it was then known, saw a young Tiger Woods pick up his first PGA Tour win.
Last year, it was Sungjae Im who picked up the trophy at TPC Summerlin. That was largely thanks to a final round of 62, which helped him to be the second youngest winner of the event, behind Woods.
It’s a week where American-based Scot Martin Laird has often had success. He’s been in three play-offs here, winning out in two of them, 2009 and 2020.
Scoring at TPC Summerlin can get very, very low. Last year Im got to 24-under-par, which isn’t really an anomaly when you look at past scores at this course. If you want to compete here, pars are not going to cut it.
You might notice there’s a slight change in the event’s name this year. It used to be the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, but is now simply the Shriners Children’s Open. It’s still the same non-profit organisation that support the event though, just a slightly re-worked name.
Let’s take a look at all the details ahead of the week’s play…
Shriners Children’s Open details
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