title: RJR Championship
text: # RJR Championship
  
  The RJR Championship was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour from 1987 to 2002. It was played in Clemmons, North Carolina at Tanglewood Park.
  
  The purse for the 2002 tournament was US$1,600,000, with $240,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1987 as the Vantage Championship with Vantage cigarettes as the sponsor, although it switched to the corporate-branded RJR Championship in 1989 and 2002, the latter due to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company were restricted to one sports sponsorship in the rulings developed by the settlement, to which the company opted to choose NASCAR Winston Cup Series as the cigarette-branded sponsorship that lasted until 2003.
  
  ## Winners
  
  RJR Championship
  
  * 2002 Bruce Fleisher
  
  Vantage Championship
  
  * 2001 canceled due to the September 11, 2001 attacks
  * 2000 Larry Nelson
  * 1999 Fred Gibson
  * 1998 Gil Morgan
  * 1997 Hale Irwin
  * 1996 Jim Colbert
  * 1995 Hale Irwin
  * 1994 Larry Gilbert
  * 1993 Lee Trevino
  * 1992 Jim Colbert
  * 1991 Jim Colbert
  * 1990 Charles Coody
  
  RJR Championship
  
  * 1989 Gary Player
  
  Vantage Championship
  
  * 1988 Walt Zembriski
  * 1987 Al Geiberger
  
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