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THE 10 Greatest STROKEPLAY TOURNAMENTS OF ALL TIME

Top level tournament golf has thrown up an incredible array of storylines over the decades. It’s arguable that no other sport provides such scope for excitement, variety, uncertainty, shock, dominance and comeback.

Within any strokeplay tournament, almost any one of the participants could potentially create something uniquely memorable over the course of the event.

Our list attempts to reflect the diversity of drama delivered by strokeplay golf. We travel from a standard tour event that produced an unexpected and scarcely believable climax, past a Major that solidified the position of an all-time great, then to monumental upsets, epic battles, displays of exceptional courage and determination, a last hurrah and finally the greatest comeback in the history of this, or perhaps any, sport. Here are our ten greatest strokeplay tournaments of all time…

10 2004 DORAL CHAMPIONSHIP

The only non-Major to make our list, the 2004 Doral Championship earns its place at number ten owing to the simply incredible tournament finale.

Australian Craig Parry had failed to finish better than tied for 25th through the 2003 PGA Tour season, so he wasn’t among the favourites when he teed it up at Doral for his first PGA

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