The PGA Tour’s annual trip to Colonial turns 80 this year.
No other host venue for a non-major has logged more years than Hogan’s Alley, where Ben Hogan won the first two Colonial National Invitations in 1946 and 1947 and five overall.
This is the second stop of the Tour’s Texas two-step in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the first being the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. It’s also in a bit of a soft spot on the schedule, with Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial Tournament (a signature event) coming next week with the U.S. Open two weeks after that…