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Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic

Golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour

Field	Value
name	Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic
location	Hallandale, Florida
establishment	1969
course	Diplomat Presidential Country Club
par	72
yardage	6964 yd
tour	PGA Tour
format	Stroke play
purse
month_played	December
final_year	1969
aggregate	270 Arnold Palmer (1969)
to-par	−18 as above
final_champion	USA Arnold Palmer
map	USA#USA Florida
map_relief	yes
map_label_position	top
map_label	Diplomat Presidential CC
map_caption	Location in the United States##Location in Florida
coordinates

| to-par = −18 as above The Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic was a golf tournament in south Florida on the PGA Tour that was played only once, in early December 1969. Held at Diplomat Presidential Country Club, between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, it had a $125,000 purse and a winner's share of $25,000. The last event of the year, it was played opposite a satellite event, the West End Classic in The Bahamas.

Six strokes back at the start of the final round, Arnold Palmer shot 65 (−7) and won by two strokes over runner-up Gay Brewer, the leader after each of the first three rounds. It was consecutive victories for the forty-year-old Palmer, who had broken a winless drought the previous week at the new Heritage Classic in southern South Carolina.

Although this tournament played for only one year, Danny Thomas continued to lend his name to a PGA Tour event for the next fifteen years (1970–84), at the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic in southwest Tennessee.

Winner

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of
victory	Runner-up
1969	USA Arnold Palmer	270	−18	2 strokes	USA Gay Brewer

References

(December 8, 1969). "Arnie's charge carries away Diplomat's trophy". St. Petersburg Times.
(December 8, 1969). "Arnie charges to victory". Spokane Daily Chronicle.
"tournament information from Arnold Palmer's website".
(December 1, 1969). "Comeback of the year: Palmer ends long slump". St. Petersburg Times.

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