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Welcome to our tournament page for the new and now Champions Tour Dick's Sporting Goods golf tournament page!  Formerly this was the site of the PGA Tour's Broome County Open golf tournament more commonly known as the B.C. Open!  The tournament was officially nixed from the PGA Tour's new FedExCup schedule of events and has been reborn as a new senior tour event here in 2008!

 Endicott N.Y. and the En-Joie golf club have hosted the B.C. Open as a 72 hole golf event on the PGA Tour since 1972.  In 2006 the tournament was moved due to flooding to the Turning Stone Resort and Atunyote G.C. outside Syracuse, N.Y. where it will be held in the 2007 PGA Tour's Fall Schedule of events. 

The passing of Johnny Hart in the early Spring of 2007 also ends the association of his name and comic strip character B.C. with this PGA Tour event.  However his legend lives on.  Year's ago Johnny commissioned the Professional Tour Caddies of America logo giving permission to use the B.C. golf character as their namesake which it remains today.

Mr. Hart's art and fame have been behind the tournament and his comic strip B.C. is all about the B.C. Open every year come tournament week.  Back in the late 1970' through the early 1990's top cartoonists would come for the Tuesday shootout and Wednesday Pro Am.  The B.C. Open was also the origin and host course for the annual Alex Alexander Caddy Classic played every Monday following the tournament for 20 plus years. 

There have been some regional and notable former champions of the B.C. Open including Hubert Green, Tom Kite, Calvin Peete, Mike Hulbert, Joey Sindelar, Fred Couples, and John Daly to name a notable few. 

The En-Joie golf club has gone through numerous changes over the years to try to compete with tournaments of larger venue.  Now with the Champions Tour picking it up it's a great mix for those players and caddies due to the hometown atmosphere there that's hard to find in the big city tournaments of today's tour.

R.W. Eaks won the inaugural Champions Tour Dick Sporting Goods Open in 2007 and will be defending here in 2008.

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