Commerce Bank Championship
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The Commerce Bank Championship is a golf tournament on the Champions Tour. It is played annually in June/July in East Meadow, New York at the Red Course at Eisenhower Park. Commerce Bancorp is the main sponsor of the tournament.
The purse for the 2007 tournament was US$1,500,000, with $225,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1988 as the Northville Long Island Classic.
[edit] Winners
- 2007 Lonnie Nielsen
- 2006 John Harris
- 2005 Ron Streck
Commerce Bank Long Island Classic
- 2004 Jim Thorpe
Long Island Classic
- 2003 Jim Thorpe
Lightpath Long Island Classic
- 2002 Hubert Green
- 2001 Bobby Wadkins
- 2000 Bruce Fleisher
- 1999 Bruce Fleisher
Northville Long Island Classic
- 1998 Gary Player
- 1997 Dana Quigley
- 1996 John Bland
- 1995 Lee Trevino
- 1994 Lee Trevino
- 1993 Raymond Floyd
- 1992 George Archer
- 1991 George Archer
- 1990 George Archer
- 1989 Butch Baird
- 1988 Don Bies
