The U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour, which is established in 1940, and is played annually in July in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer, Wisconsin. The tournament is held at the Brown Deer Park Golf Course. and U.S. Bancorp is the main sponsor of the tournament. The tournament is run by Milwaukee Golf Charities, Inc., with proceeds from the tournament going to a variety of Wisconsin charities.
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Professional golf in Milwaukee started sporadically with events in 1940 and 1951 and a seven year run from 1955-1961, and in 1968, the tournament made a strong reappearance on the Tour as the Greater Milwaukee Open, competing against the British Open by offering a $200,000 purse with a $40,000 first prize, and the 1968 U.S. Open winner, Lee Trevino decided to play in the GMO instead of the British Open, in order to help the reborn tournament. U.S. Bank signed on as title sponsor in 2004, and in July 2006, U.S. Bank and Milwaukee Golf Charities Inc. announced that U.S. Bank will remain the sponsor for at least three more years. The tournament has been played at various golf courses in the Milwaukee area like in North Hills Country Club, Menomonee Falls in 1940, 1951, 1960-1961, in Blue Mound Golf Club, Wauwatosa in 1955, in Tripoli Country Club, Milwaukee in 1956-1969, 1971-1972, in North Shore Country Club, Mequon in 1968-70, Tuckaway Country Club, Franklin in 1973-93 and Brown Deer Park Golf Course, Brown Deer in 1994-present. Tiger Woods made his professional debut at the Milwaukee tournament on August 29, 1996, four days after winning his third consecutive U.S. Amateur title.