Costa Rica Open

Costa Rica Open

Tournament information
Location	Costa Rica
Established	2002
Course(s)	Cariari Country Club
Tour(s)	Tour de las Americas Challenge Tour
Format	Stroke play
Final year	2007
Tournament record score
Aggregate	275 Miguel Rodríguez (2007)
To par	-9 (as above)
Final champion
Miguel Rodríguez

The Costa Rica Open is a men's professional golf tournament that was played annually in Costa Rica until 2007. It was an event on the Tour de las Americas from 2002 until its replacement by the Costa Rica Golf Classic in 2008, and was also co-sanctioned by the European Challenge Tour from 2003.

The tournament was held at the Cariari Country Club near San José every year except in 2004 when it was played over the Valle del Sol Golf Course near Santa Ana. The 2006 event was renamed in order to pay tribute to the tournaments founder and promoter, Kai Fieberg, who had been killed in a car accident earlier in the year.^[1]

In 1979 and 1980, Cariari hosted the PGA sponsored Friendship Cup, which is sometimes also referred to as the Costa Rica Open. These tournaments were won by Raymond Floyd and Larry Ziegler.

Winners

Year	Venue	Winner	Score
Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open
2007	Cariari Country Club	Miguel Rodríguez	275 (-9)
2006	Cariari Country Club	Johan Axgren	277 (-7)PO
Costa Rica Open 2005 American Express presented by BETonSPORTS.com
2005	Cariari Country Club	Kyle Dobbs	280 (-4)PO
Costa Rica Open
2004	Valle del Sol Golf Course	Alessandro Tadini	278 (-6)PO
Costa Rica Open presented by Credomatic MasterCard
2003	Cariari Country Club	Sebastián Fernández	278 (-6)PO
American Express Costa Rica Open
2002	Cariari Country Club	Rafael Gómez	289 (+5)PO

^PO - Won after play-off

References

1. ^ "Costa Rica Open 2006 Pays Posthumous Tribute to Kai Fieberg". insidecostarica.com. January 19, 2006. http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2006/january/19/nac04.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-09. 

External links

• Official coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site