The DFW Double: Who'll be next to join the list?

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Rory Sabbatini is the 14th member of the DFW Double club, having won in Fort Worth in '07 (left) and in Dallas last week (right).

This week at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, four players in the field will have a chance to achieve what Rory Sabbatini just accomplished on Sunday at the HP Byron Nelson Championship -- complete both legs of the DFW Double.

Sabbatini became the 14th player in PGA TOUR history to claim victories at the TOUR stops in Dallas and Fort Worth, the two North Texas cities separated by just 30 miles. The list of DFW Double winners includes some of golf's biggest names -- legends such as Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson, and current starts such as Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia.

Only one player has ever won both events in the same year -- Hogan, who won the inaugural event at Colonial along with the Dallas Open in 1946. Sabbatini will try to join Hogan this week.

But a few names not on DFW Double list jump out at you immediately -- Arnold Palmer, a winner at Colonial in 1962 but 0 for 17 in Dallas; Byron Nelson, who won the first Dallas Open (before it became his namesake event) but never won in 18 starts in Fort Worth; and Tiger Woods, likewise a Dallas winner but who hasn't played Colonial since his lone start in 1997 when he finished tied for fourth.

Of the 124 players in the Crown Plaza Invitational field this week, just four have won the Dallas stage of the DFW Double -- Adam Scott, Vijay Singh, Scott Verplank and Ted Purdy. Will one of those four join the 14 names below?

Doing the DFW Double

Players who have won the PGA TOUR stops in Dallas and Fort Worth

Player Year(s) won Year(s) won Julius Boros 1959 1960, 1963 Ben Crenshaw 1983 1977, 1990 Roberto De Vicenzo 1966 1957 Bruce Devlin 1969 1966 Ben Hogan 1946 1946, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1959 Sergio Garcia 2004 2001 Bruce Lietzke 1981, 1988 1980, 1992 Phil Mickelson 1996 2000, 2008 Jack Nicklaus 1970, 1971 1982 Nick Price 1991 1994, 2002 Rory Sabbatini 2009 2007 Sam Snead 1945, 1957, 1958 1950 Lanny Wadkins 1973 1988 Tom Watson 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980 1998