The Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge is an unofficial golf event held in November at the Rio Secco Golf Club in Henderson, Nevada. The tournament is a unique stroke play event, and, as the name suggests, pits three teams, with three members per team, from the PGA Tour, the LPGA Tour, and Champions Tour (known as the Senior PGA Tour prior to 2001) against each other. The 2012 purse is $1 million.
The challenge event is done in one day, over 18 holes, and is usually held on a Tuesday. It is proceeded by an amateur tournament and a one-day pro-am tournament. The event is handicapped to level the playing field. The PGA Tour players play the course at its full length, while the Champions Tour players hit from tee positions that make the course shorter and the LPGA players from even shorter tee positions.
The event supports the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a charity established by the founder of Wendy's, the fast food restaurant that sponsors the tournament. In 2005 the tournament raised a record $3.8 million, and, since it was founded in 1992, it has raised more than $21 million overall for the chariity.
ABC televised the event until 2009, showing the tournament tape-delayed on a weekend in December just before Christmas, with the first nine holes broadcast on Saturday, and the final nine holes on Sunday. Terry Gannon did the on-air play-by-play. The 2010 event aired on Golf Channel on December 9.
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