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The Senior PGA Championship, founded in 1937, was for many years the only high-profile tournament for golfers over 50.The idea for a senior tour grew out of a highly successful event in 1978, the Legends of Golf at Onion Creek Club in Austin, Texas, which featured competition between two-member teams of some of the greatest older golfers of that day. [1]
This article lists all the men who have won senior golf's major championships. The tallies do not include wins in the Senior PGA Championship and the Senior British Open before they became senior majors. The five majors are shown in the order in which they are currently played each year.
This is a list of all the golfers who have won ten or more official events on the U.S.-based PGA Tour Champions (known as the Senior PGA Tour from 1980–2002 and Champions Tour from 2003–2015), the leading golf tour in the world for men aged 50 and above. The list is up to date as of October 13, 2024.
4,370 – Tom Watson, 2003 (n.b. system changed in 2018 to make the points equal to money earned on tour that year) Most Charles Schwab Cup money earned, career; $8,200,000 – Bernhard Langer, 2008–2021. Most Champions Tour Comeback Player of the Year Awards; 2 – Hubert Green, 2002, 2004. Most Byron Nelson Awards
Golfers who have been members of PGA Tour Champions for male golfers aged 50 and over. Based in the United States, the tour was originally known as the Senior PGA Tour (1980–2002) and later as the Champions Tour (2003–2015).
Additionally, a "wild card" playoff berth will be awarded to a golfer who finishes in the top 10 of the last regular-season event, the SAS Championship, and is not within the top 72 after the tournament. (If more than one player outside the top 72 finishes in the top 10 at the SAS Championship, the highest finisher among these players will ...
PGA Tour Champions, originally known as the Senior PGA Tour and later as the Champions Tour, is a professional golf tour for men aged 50 and above based in the United States. It is the richest senior golf tour in the world and one of the top five golf tours overall by prize money.
The Hoag Classic (formerly the Toshiba Classic) is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour Champions. The Hoag Classic is played annually in March in Newport Beach, California at the Newport Beach Country Club. Newport Beach Country Club was designed by William Francis Bell in 1954. The tournament was founded in 1995 as the Toshiba Senior Classic.