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The Ally Challenge Returns to Warwick Hills August 21-27
Like every other stop on the PGA Tour Champions, Steve Stricker won the 2022 Ally Challenge at Warwick Hills Golf Club. Stricker posted a winning score of 15-under par to best Brett Quigley by a single stroke last year. This will be the sixth time the tournament has been played in Gran Blanc with past […]
Ally Challenge Generates Millions for Flint-Area Charities
On August 22-28 historic Warwick Hills Golf Club in Grand Blanc will once again come alive with the roars from golf fans as the PGA TOUR Champions will compete in the 5th Ally Challenge presented by McLaren. In all 78 professionals will compete for a piece of the $2 million purse. The event benefits local […]
Michigan to Host 7 Professional Golf Tournaments This Year
It was just a few years ago that none of the professional golf tours made stops in Michigan. With the announcement that Travis Pointe in Ann Arbor would host an Epson Tour event, June 16-18, it will bring the total number of professional tournaments held in Michigan to seven. In addition to Ann Arbor, the […]
Ally Challenge Announced 2020 charitable donation of $800,000
GRAND BLANC, Mich. – Tournament Officials announced that the 2020 Ally Challenge presented by McLaren, raised $801,563 for charitable organizations in southeastern Michigan and beyond. The amount continues the impressive giving legacy in the event’s short 3-year history. Since its inception in 2018, The Ally Challenge has donated a total of nearly $3.2 million in support of local charities […]
Ally Challenge Updates
Volunteer registration for the Ally Challenge presented by McLaren, July 27-Aug. 2 at Warwick Hills, is now open to the public at www.theallychallenge.com/volunteers. All volunteers receive a golf shirt (and visor or cap), a commemorative pin, meals for each day they work, an official tournament credential and one weekly grounds ticket. In addition, all volunteers are […]
PGA Tour Champions Ally Challenge Names 2019 Dates
The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren will return to Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club with an elite field of 78 PGA TOUR Champions professionals, September 9-15, 2019. “The first Ally Challenge was by all measures a great success and we can’t wait to repeat that success next year,” said Andrea Brimmer, Ally’s chief marketing and public relations officer. “We were so gratified […]
Ally Challenge Brings Energy Back to Warwick Hills
The PGA Tour Champions brought so much more than a nostalgic return to Warwick Hills, once the proud host of the Buick Open for many decades. Great golf was contested in Grand Blanc the third weekend of September by many of the great names who played there for so many years in their younger prime. Yet even with age there was […]
Rocco Mediate Q&A
PGA Tour Champions member Rocco Mediate was in Grand Blanc on August 20 to participate in media day for the Ally Challenge, presented by McLaren. Mediate won the Buick Open in 2000, never having led the tournament until the final hole. All the big names on the PGA Tour Champions circuit have committed to play at […]
Ally Challenge Brings Pro Golf Back to Warwick Hills
The stage is being set – literally – for the return of PGA Tour-level golf when the PGA Tour Champions Ally Challenge presented by McLaren commences September 10-16 at the famed Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in Grand Blanc. A major fan highlight will be the Friday evening concert, starring Grammy Award-winning country music duo Big & Rich, at the course directly following the first round […]