The Shriners Hospitals for Children Open is a golf tournament that is part of the PGA Tour. The tournament is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is scheduled to take place from October 10-16, 2023 1.
Since 1983, Las Vegans have come together to see some of the greatest golfers of all time and witness magical golf moments. Las Vegas has made a name for itself in the golf world with more than 50 spectacular golf courses and a long history of PGA TOUR competition.
Each fall in Las Vegas the Shriners Children’s Open offers spectators, golf fans and players alike, an event like nothing else in town. We are Las Vegas’ best golf for an even better cause.
The Shriners Children’s Open has been known by various titles throughout its history, but the tournament’s legacy of bringing the best golf to Las Vegas has remained the same. The tournament’s original host organization was the Las Vegas Founders, a volunteer group of Las Vegas business leaders. In 1983, the group helped bring the PGA TOUR to Las Vegas when Las Vegas PGA TOUR player Jim Colbert brought together business leaders Chuck Ruthe, James Cashman, Tom Hartley, Dick Etter and others to form the Las Vegas Founders Club. The group spent nearly 25 years ensuring that the PGA TOUR continued to come back to the city bigger and better each year. At that time, there were just a handful of courses and about 500,000 residents, but that didn’t stop the group from teaming up and watching the Las Vegas golf community expand at a dizzying pace. During the Pro-Am era of golf, the 1983 Panasonic Las Vegas Pro-Celebrity Classic was the PGA TOUR’s first-ever tournament with a million-dollar prize purse.
In 2007, the tournament announced that Shriners Hospitals for Children would take over the operations of the tournament. Entertainer Justin Timberlake was the host of the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open tournament 2008 through 2012. In 2013, the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open became a part of the FedEx Cup playoffs.
In 2021, Shriners Hospitals for Children became known as Shriners Children’s to adapt to current nationwide trends in healthcare, especially the emphasis on outpatient care, and some locations becoming clinics or outpatient centers. At that time, the tournament was renamed Shriners Children’s Open.
This year will mark the 40th annual tournament at TPC Summerlin. We will be welcoming back Tom Kim and another stellar field to compete for a $8.4 million purse.
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