The Azalea Open Invitational was a golf tournament in North Carolina on the PGA Tour, held at Cape Fear Country Club in Wilmington.

The Heritage in South Carolina debuted in 1969 and soon displaced it on the schedule.

Cape Fear was designed by noted course architect Donald Ross.

[3] From 1950 through 1965, the Azalea Open was a tune-up event for the first major of the year, The Masters in Augusta, Georgia.

Jerry Barber, the winner of the PGA Championship in 1961, won the Wilmington event three times (1953, 1961, 1963).