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Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic
Tournament information
Location	Hallandale, Florida
Established	1969
Course(s)	Diplomat Presidential Country Club
Par	72
Length	6,964 yards (6,368 m)
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$125,000
Month played	December
Final year	1969
Tournament record score
Aggregate	270 Arnold Palmer (1969)
To par	−18 as above
Final champion
	Arnold Palmer
Location map
	Diplomat Presidential CC Location in the United States Diplomat Presidential CC Location in Florida

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,^[1] it had a $125,000 purse and a winner's share of $25,000.^[2] 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.^[1]^[2]^[3] 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.^[4]

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	Arnold Palmer	270	−18	2 strokes	Gay Brewer

References

^ ^a ^b "Arnie's charge carries away Diplomat's trophy". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). Associated Press. December 8, 1969. p. 1C.
^ ^a ^b "Arnie charges to victory". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. December 8, 1969. p. 18.
^ "tournament information from Arnold Palmer's website". Archived from the original on 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
^ "Comeback of the year: Palmer ends long slump". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). Associated Press. December 1, 1969. p. 1C.