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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. There is a complete list of results in the senior majors article. [1] The list is up to date through the 2024 season.
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).
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.
Most Champions Tour major victories; 12 – Bernhard Langer, 2010-2023. Most Senior PGA Championship major victories; 4 – Hale Irwin, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004. Most Senior Players Championship major victories; 3 – Bernhard Langer, 2014, 2015, 2016. Most Senior British Open major victories; 4 – Bernhard Langer, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2019
Golfers who have won a senior major golf championship as defined by the PGA Tour Champions. Through the 2024 season, there are 101 of them. Through the 2024 season, there are 101 of them. Pages in category "Winners of senior major golf championships"
Since 1975, only four players have won PGA Tour events after their 50th birthday, the age at which golfers become eligible to compete on PGA Tour Champions: Craig Stadler won in 2003 at age 50, Fred Funk won in 2007 at age 50, Davis Love III won in 2015 at age 51, and Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championship in 2021 at age 50, becoming the ...
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]
In 1996, Nicklaus was the first person to win the same Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) event four times, when he captured The Tradition tournament. Nicklaus is the only person in the history of the PGA to win all of the major championships on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.