Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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.
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.
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
Men's professional senior golf is for players aged 50 and above. Golf differs from all other sports in having lucrative competitions for this age group. The leading senior tour is the U.S.-based PGA Tour Champions, which was established in 1980 (as the Senior PGA Tour).
The Tournament of Champions, currently titled as The Sentry, is the calendar-year opening tournament of golf's PGA Tour season, played in Hawaii on the island of Maui. [2] The tournament was founded in 1953; for most of its history the field was restricted to golfers who won a tournament on the tour during the previous calendar year, but ...
The Tradition (known as the Regions Tradition for sponsorship reasons) is an event on the PGA Tour Champions.First staged 36 years ago in 1989, the PGA Tour recognizes the event as one of the five senior major golf championships.
The 2024 PGA Tour Champions season was the 44th season of PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour), the main professional golf tour in the United States for men aged 50 and over.