The Transitions Championship is a men's professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, and is played annually at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor, Florida.

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History

The tournament was founded in 2000 as the Tampa Bay Classic . It was originally an alternate event played the same week as the Presidents Cup in 2000, and the same week as the WGC-American Express Championship in 2002. It was supposed to be played the same week as the WGC-American Express Championship on September 13-16, 2001. However, the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 forced the cancellations of both tournaments.

From 2003 to 2006, the Tampa Bay event had a slot in the schedule to itself as the last full-field event before the Tour Championship. The Chrysler Corporation was the title sponsor.

Since 2007, the Tampa Bay event has been played in March. For a time the tournament was without a title sponsor, leading to speculation on its fate beyond 2007. Then, on January 24, 2007, tournament officials and the PGA Tour announced a six-year sponsorship agreement with the PODS Group of Clearwater, Florida. ^[1] However, the company chose to exercise an option to withdraw as title sponsor after the 2008 event, and tournament officials searched to find a replacement. ^[2] On June 4, 2008, Transitions Optical, Inc. was announced as the new title sponsor. ^[3]

The players with the most wins in the event are Retief Goosen (2003 and 2009), and K.J. Choi (2002 and 2006).

The tournament record was set by Vijay Singh in 2004 with a -18 winning total of 266.

Winners

Date	Winner	Country	Score	1st Prize ($)	Purse ($)
Transitions Championship
Mar 22, 2009	Retief Goosen		276 (-8)	972,000	5,400,000
PODS Championship
Mar 9, 2008	Sean O'Hair		280 (-4)	954,000	5,300,000
Mar 11, 2007	Mark Calcavecchia		274 (-10)	954,000	5,300,000
Chrysler Championship
Oct 29, 2006	K. J. Choi		271 (-13)	954,000	5,300,000
Oct 30, 2005	Carl Pettersson		275 (-9)	954,000	5,300,000
Oct 31, 2004	Vijay Singh		266 (-18)	900,000	5,000,000
Nov 2, 2003	Retief Goosen		272 (-12)	864,000	4,800,000
Tampa Bay Classic presented by Buick
Sep 22, 2002	K. J. Choi		267 (-17)	468,000	2,600,000
Tampa Bay Classic
Sep 16, 2001	Cancelled due to the terrorist attacks on September 11
Oct 22, 2000	John Huston		271 (-13)	432,000	2,400,000

Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.

References

1. Tampa Event Named PODS Championship
2. Finding sponsor top priority
3. Transitions Optical preserves Tampa leg of Florida swing