Blue Hills plays host to 4th straight AdventHealth Championship golf tourney this week
The four-day, 72-hole AdventHealth Championship returns to Blue Hills Country Club this Thursday-Sunday.
The Robert Dunning-desiged Blue Hills course, a par-72, 7,347-yard layout, will play host to a Korn Ferry Tour field of 156 players when competition gets underway Thursday morning.
There are two past AdventHealth Championship winners in this week’s field: Michael Gellerman (2019) and Jamie Lovemark (2013).
Defending champion Trevor Cone is now playing on the PGA Tour, as is 2021 winner Cameron Young.
The total purse for this year’s AdventHealth Championship is an event-record $1 million, with $180,000 awarded to the winner.
This is the 13th edition of the tournament in Kansas City and fourth straight year it will take place at Blue Hills. There are 26 total tournaments on this year’s Korn Ferry Tour calendar — the AdventHealth Championship is the 10th of them — and the total season-long purse for the PGA feeder tour has never been bigger.
Gellerman grew up playing on a nine-hole course in Sterling, Kansas. Other entrants with area ties include Wade Binfield and sponsor exemptions Davis Cooper and Joseph Winslow. All three are natives of Overland Park. Cooper, a junior at the University of Kansas, attended Blue Valley High.
Another sponsor exemption, Charlie Hillier, is a PGA TOUR Latinoamérica member and resident of Overland Park who played at KU (2015-19). He missed the cut here last year as a sponsor exemption.
Monday qualifier Jeremy Gandon played at Kansas State.
Single-day tickets to this week’s tournament are $10. Passes granting admission for all four days are $30. Youth (17 and younger), current and former military members and first responders will be admitted free.
