• 1956:
Peter Thomson, a five-time winner of
The Open Championship shoots a final round 63, then makes birdie on the first two holes of sudden death to defeat
Gene Littler and
Cary Middlecoff. It was his one and only PGA Tour victory in the United States. • 1970:
Jack Nicklaus defeated
Arnold Palmer in a sudden-death playoff. • 1976:
Mark Hayes becomes the first wire-to-wire winner of the Nelson. • 1981:
Bruce Lietzke defeated
Tom Watson in a playoff spoiling Watson's bid for a fourth straight Nelson triumph. • 1985:
Bob Eastwood defeated
Payne Stewart in a playoff after coming to the 72nd hole trailing Stewart by three shots. Eastwood made birdie on the final hole while Stewart made double bogey. Stewart made yet another double bogey on the first hole of sudden death to give Eastwood the title. • 1994:
Neal Lancaster won the first ever six-player sudden death playoff in PGA Tour history. He made a birdie on the first playoff hole to defeat
Tom Byrum,
Mark Carnevale,
David Edwards,
Yoshi Mizumaki, and
David Ogrin. • 2005:
Tiger Woods' record streak of 142 cuts made came to an end at this tournament. • 2006: After graduating from Q school,
Brett Wetterich's win propels him to a surprise Ryder Cup appearance. • 2008: Australian
Adam Scott sank a putt on the third playoff hole to clinch victory over American
Ryan Moore. • 2010: At age 16,
Jordan Spieth (the defending
U.S. Junior Amateur champion, and a student at nearby
Jesuit College Preparatory School) became the youngest player to play in the tournament, courtesy of a sponsor's exemption (the first one granted since 1995). Spieth made the cut (becoming the sixth-youngest person in PGA Tour history to make a professional tour event cut) and finished in sixteenth place. (The next year, he was granted another sponsor's exemption, made the cut, and finished in 32nd place.) • 2013:
Keegan Bradley hits a course-record 60 (−10) in the first round, leads after each of the first three rounds, but
Bae Sang-moon earned the win. • 2018:
Aaron Wise sets the tournament record. • 2019:
Kang Sung-hoon won his first PGA Tour title in his 159th start.
Scott Piercy went bogey-free for the entire tournament, becoming the first to do so in a 72-hole PGA Tour event since
Charles Howell III at the 2010
Greenbrier Classic. ==Winners==