Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, run by the PGA TOUR, hosts 30 events annually in the United States and Canada for golfers 50 and older.
Known as the Senior PGA TOUR until 2002, it offers approximately $50 million in annual prize money. Upon eligilibilty, some of the greatest names in golf history have participated in the tour.
The tour grew out of a highly successful event in 1978, the Legends of Golf, which featured competition between two-member teams of some of the greatest older golfers of that day.
Tour leading money winners:
- 1980 - Don January - $44,100
- 1981 - Miller Barber - $83,136
- 1982 - Miller Barber - $106,890
- 1983 - Don January - $237,571
- 1984 - Don January - $328,597
- 1985 - Peter Thomson - $386,724
- 1986 - Bruce Crampton - $454,299
- 1987 - Chi Chi Rodriguez - $509,145
- 1988 - Bob Charles - $533,929
- 1989 - Bob Charles - $725,887
- 1990 - Lee Trevino - $1,190,518
- 1991 - Mike Hill - $1,065,657
- 1992 - Lee Trevino - $1,027,002
- 1993 - Dave Stockton - $1,175,944
- 1994 - Dave Stockton - $1,402,519
- 1995 - Jim Colbert - $1,444,386
- 1996 - Jim Colbert - $1,627,890
- 1997 - Hale Irwin - $2,343,364
- 1998 - Hale Irwin - $2,861,945
- 1999 - Bruce Fleisher - $2,515,705
- 2000 - Larry Nelson - $2,708,005
- 2001 - Allen Doyle- $2,553,582
- 2002 - Hale Irwin - $3,028,304
- 2003 - Tom Watson - $1,853,108
