Team Titleist Invitational through the years

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By Gary B

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  1. Gary B

    Gary B
    Jacksonville, NC

    Getting my gear ready for Pinehurst next week stirred my Team Titleist nostalgia. I know this isn’t a Team Titleist Invitational, but I was curious on the history. From what I gather, it was originally a true invitation tournament. Looks like there were local invitationals beginning around 2012. I was lucky to be invited to one in 2015. I believe in 2016 it became available to the first to sign up on the announcement date, and the early events filled in minutes. Here is the list of venues beginning in 2016:

    2016 - Pinehurst Resort 2017 - TPC Sawgrass 2018 - Kiawah Island Resort 2019 - Kohler Resort (Whistling Straits) 2020 - Bandon Dunes 2021 - Pinehurst Resort 2022 - Streamsong Resort 2023 - TPC Scottsdale 2024 - Omni PGA Frisco 2025 - Sand Valley

    I was fortunate to attend 2016 - 2019, registered for Bandon, but Covid had other plans, and 2021 - 2023.

    I have made so many lifelong friends through Team Titleist, too many to name, but you all know who you are. I’m looking forward to next Sunday to reconnect with my TT friends, both old and any new.

    Here are the event T- shirts collected along the way. Any I have missed, I would love to see the designs.

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  2. Chuck Z

    Chuck Z
    Mt Pleasant, SC

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    Did you forget the first event we went to at Pine Needles Lodge Golf Course, Southern Pines, NC., with Mike D. That is where our friendship began. Also where is go lost. ha...ha... Think that was the first TT event, forgot the year, but it was a lot of fun. Did both of the Pinehurst events (my favorite resort), passed on Kiawah (have played those courses so many times, kinda like my home courses), made the Players, Streamsong and Scotsdale. Passed on the others, they were walking courses. Signed up for Ireland, but caught COVID three days before I was to leave. Remember us playing the Pete Dye course in Myrtle Beach. Life has treated us well Gary. Love those Titleist and TT shirts. Wear them with pride. Nice memories. Thank you.
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  3. Gary B

    Gary B
    Jacksonville, NC

    Yes, I remember the Pine Needles/Mid Pines, and I thought that was what started TTI, but now I believe it was considered a local event. Perhaps Lisa can dig up more history. Thanks for sharing the group photo.
  4. Don O

    Don O
    Madison, WI

    This event was a limited invitational. I was at the Southern Pines event, as well as a west coast event at, I think, Grand Del Mar, or somewhere in San Diego county. I’m not sure which event was first, but I still have the stand bag Mike gave to all participants at the SD event. Gary did allude to earlier, more regional events. Living in “fly over country” I suppose I got invited to both coasts.

    I missed only the TPC Sawgrass when I was turned down at work for a vacation day. I wasn’t prepared to retire when that edict came down. If they tried that again, I was prepared to leave. Fortunately never came down to that.

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