Club: Colonial Country Club.

Location: Forth Worth, Texas.

Date: May 21-27, 2012

Golf Live Lines: The Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial is a PGA regular golf tournament. It has been played annually in May in Fort Worth, Texas on the course at the Colonial Country Club. It is one of four invitational tournaments held on the PGA Tour. This PGA tour is one the longest on the Tour.

This golf tournament is been played since in 1946 and founded as the Colonial National Invitation Tournament. The tournament honors the history of golf by using an official Scottish tartan plaid jacket.

This is a restricted PGA Tour event, because it only guarantees inviting the first 80 players on the previous year's money list. The event also has a selection tradition.

Champion's Choice tradition

known as the Champion's Choice invitation, each year a committee of former Colonial champions selects two deserving, and otherwise ineligible, young players to compete in the tournament.

Some pro golf players that made their first appearance at Colonial as a Champions choice were: Curtis Strange, Mark O'Meara, Paul Azinger, Al Geiberger, Tom Weiskopf, Craig Stadler.

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2011 Winner - Toms wins Colonial after heartbreaker

Five months ago, David Toms was playing in a golf outing at TPC Sawgrass when he got the phone call. His grandfather, Tom -- yes, Tom Toms -- had been rushed to the emergency room. A few days later, he passed away. David was crushed.

It was his grandfather who taught David to play golf, reading instruction books from Bob Toski and Jack Nicklaus. It was his grandfather who took David to the course at the nearby military base, shagging balls, encouraging the talent that existed within the youngster. But Tom Toms was much more than that.

So when David found himself leading THE PLAYERS Championship last week, on the verge of winning for the first time in five years, he felt it was destiny. TPC Sawgrass was now going to be the place for good news, not bad. He was sure of it, could feel the spirit of his grandfather guiding him along.

But destiny, just like golf itself, is not predictable. Destiny was not Toms' ally at TPC Sawgrass.

It just wanted him to wait one more excruciating week.

On a hot, humid Sunday that his grandfather surely would appreciate, Toms got the tap on the shoulder from the golf gods. On a course that he absolutely adores and in a tournament he's always wanted to win, Toms shot a 3-under 67 and climbed back into the winner's circle -- physically exhausted, mentally spent and emotionally drained; and enjoying every minute of it.

2010 Winner

Zach Johnson now has a plaid jacket to go besides the green one.

"I just remained patient," Johnson said. "Going in the back nine, my mind frame was, 'I don't care if I win this golf tournament, or I don't care if I lose it. I'm content with whatever happens. I'm going to go out fighting, and I'm going to go out aggressive.' Outside of missing a few fairways I played pretty solid on the back nine."

Johnson shot a closing 6-under 64 Sunday in the final round of the Colonial, winning at Hogan's Alley with a tournament-record score of 21-under 259.