Doral Open

Ford Championship at Doral
Tournament information
LocationDoral, Florida
Established1962
Course(s)Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Par72
Length7,481 yards (6,841 m)[1]
Tour(s)PGA Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$5,500,000
Month playedMarch
Final year2006
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Tiger Woods (2005)
To par−24 as above
Final champion
United States Tiger Woods
Location map
Doral Golf Resort & Spa is located in the United States
Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Location in the United States
Doral Golf Resort & Spa is located in Florida
Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Location in Florida

The Doral Open was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in the southeastern United States. It was played annually for 45 seasons, from 1962 to 2006, on the "Blue Monster" course at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Doral, Florida, a suburb west of Miami.

The introduction of the FedEx Cup in 2007 caused a change in the PGA Tour schedule. The WGC-CA Championship, a World Golf Championship event co-sponsored by the PGA Tour, moved from October to March and took the Doral Open's spot on the schedule. This championship was also held at the Blue Monster course for the next decade; it was renamed the WGC-Cadillac Championship in 2011 and continued at Doral through 2016. The resort was sold in 2012 and became Trump National Doral Miami. The PGA Tour Latinoamérica development tour will host the season-ending Shell Championship in December 2018 on the Golden Palm course to continue the PGA Tour's tradition of hosting at Doral.[2]

  1. ^ Ferguson, Doug (March 6, 2006). "Woods gets exactly what he needs to win again at Doral". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. D1.
  2. ^ "PGA Tour Latinoamérica moves season-ending tournament to Doral, Florida". PGA Tour. October 17, 2018.