Longest and Oldest Tournaments (including 2009) Oldest Tournaments on the Champions Tour
Longest Span in One Metropolitan Area
Senior PGA Championship (70 years – since 1937 with five years “No Event Played”) Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (32 years – since 1978) U.S. Senior Open (30 years – since 1980) Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship (27 years – since 1983) Mitsubishi Electric Championship (26 years – since 1984) AT&T Championship (25 years – since 1985) Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am (22 years – since 1988) The ACE Group Classic (22 years – since 1988)
San Antonio, TX (AT&T Championship, 25 years – since 1985) Naples, FL (The ACE Group Classic), 22 years – since 1988) Tampa, FL (Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, 22 years – since 1988) Los Angeles, CA (AT&T Champions Classic, 20 years – since 1990) Birmingham AL (Regions Charity Classic, 18 years – since 1992) Minneapolis, MN (3M Championship, 17 years – since 1993)
Longest-Running Sponsors on the Champions Tour Liberty Mutual Group (Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, 30 years – since 1980) AT&T (AT&T Championship, 15 years – since 1995) Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba Classic, 15 years – since 1995)
Longest Span at One Club TPC Tampa Bay, Lutz, FL (Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, 18 years – since 1992) Newport Beach Country Club, Newport Beach, CA (Toshiba Classic, 14 years – since 1996) Hualalai Golf Club, Ka’upulehu-Kona, HI (Mitsubishi Electric Classic, 13 years – since 1997)
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Event Winner Defender/Score/2008 Finish MasterCard Championship at Hualalai Fred Funk Hale Irwin/210 (-6)/T30th Turtle Bay Championship Jerry Pate Fred Funk/221 (+5)/T32nd Allianz Championship Scott Hoch Mark James/210 (-6)/T18 The ACE Group Classic Scott Hoch* Bobby Wadkins/207 (-9)/T16 Toshiba Classic Bernhard Langer* Jay Haas/199 (-12)/2* AT&T Champions Classic Denis Watson* Tom Purtzer/213 (-3)/10 The Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach Bernhard Langer Keith Fergus/221 (+5)/T31 The Cap Cana Championship Mark Wiebe new event Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am Tom Watson Tom Watson/204 (-9)/1st Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Andy North/Tom Watson Jay Haas (with Curtis Strange)/200 (-16)/T23 FedEx Kinko’s Classic Denis Watson Scott Hoch/207 (-9)/T2 Regions Charity Classic Andy Bean Brad Bryant/209 (-7)/T11 Senior PGA Championship Jay Haas Denis Watson/296 (+16)/T26 The Principal Charity Classic Jay Haas Jay Haas/203 (-10)/1st Bank of America Championship Jeff Sluman Jay Haas/215 (+3)/T45 Commerce Bank Championship Loren Roberts Lonnie Nielsen/202 (-11)/T2 Dick’s Sporting Goods Open Eduardo Romero R.W. Eaks/213 (-3)/T46 3M Championship R.W. Eaks D.A. Weibring/205 (-11)/T13 Senior British Open Bruce Vaughan Tom Watson/282 (-2)/T5 U.S. Senior Open Eduardo Romero Brad Bryant/285 (+1)/T14 JELD-WEN Tradition Fred Funk Mark McNulty/281 (-7)/T25 Boeing Classic Tom Kite Denis Watson/207 (-7)/T5 Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach Jeff Sluman Gil Morgan/213 (-3)/T21 Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn R.W. Eaks R.W. Eaks/200 (-16)/1st SAS Championship Eduardo Romero Mark Wiebe/210 (-6)/T17 Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship D.A. Weibring Loren Roberts/280 (E)/T21 Administaff Small Business Classic Bernhard Langer Bernhard Langer/204 (-12)/1st AT&T Championship John Cook John Cook/197 (-16)/1st Charles Schwab Cup Championship Andy Bean Jim Thorpe (DNP)
All-Time Records
How the Defending Champions Fared in 2008
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Champions Tour 2009 Guide
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