Category: PGA Tour Champions

Doug Barron, Scott Parel emerge as Chubb Classic leaders

Doug Barron and Scott Parel are two of the relative unknowns on the PGA Tour Champions. 

Doug Barron and Scott Parel are two of the relative unknowns on the PGA Tour Champions.

Neither had much of a career on the regular tour. Parel didn’t have one and didn’t even play college golf while attending the University of Georgia.

That hasn’t stopped either from finding success on the Champions Tour.

Both shot rounds of 7-under 64 on Friday to share the first-round lead at the Chubb Classic at The Classics at Lely Resort. Three-time winner Bernhard Langer, Fred Funk, Ken Tanigawa and Stephen Leaney are tied for second at 6 under.

Before turning 50 last year, Barron had played seven seasons on the PGA Tour with a best finish of third in 237 starts, and hadn’t played tour golf since the Korn Ferry Tour in 2012.

In his Champions Tour debut last July, he tied for fifth at the Senior British Open. Then he went all the way through prequalifying and qualifying to get into the DICK’S Sporting Goods Open. He shot a 6-under 66 to beat Fred Couples by two strokes. It was the first time in tour history a winner went through both rounds of qualifying.

It was his first career victory in 377 events across three sanctioned tours.

On Friday, Barron left an 8-footer for birdie on No. 18 one revolution short, but otherwise was more than solid. He made four birdies on the front nine, then holed out for eagle on the par-5 11th from 30 yards before adding another birdie on No. 17.

“I played really good,” Barron said. “I drove it great today. And I didn’t do anything special. I missed a couple short putts, as a matter of fact. I made two good pars all day, but I hit it really nice. I didn’t really have to struggle for pars. I had a lot of good looks all day, so it was an easy 7 under, if there’s such a thing.”

Parel, 54, worked as a computer programmer and database administrator for 10 years after college, and didn’t turn pro until he was 31. He hasn’t won yet on the tour but was second three times and had 10 top-10 finishes last year on his way to finishing eighth on the Charles Schwab Cup points list.

Friday, he had eight birdies, including a pair of three straight – Nos. 2, 3, 4, and Nos. 10, 11, 12 – but it was a bogey at No. 7 that stood out to him.

“I lost the ball in a palm tree,” he said. “Hit a good tee shot, hit it in front, and chipped in for a 5, so that was a huge momentum. Even though it was a bogey, it could be six or seven easily. And I wasn’t that concerned.”

Langer closed with a 12-foot birdie on No. 9. Langer, who is going for his 41st Champions Tour victory, has gotten off to another good start. He tied that into making Florida his home years ago.

“I noticed it early in my career, when I lived in Germany, I always had a slow start to every season and it took me to May or June to get my stride,” he said. “And when I moved to Florida, I was ready to go from the get-go. So that helps. That’s probably the main thing.”

Barron has made himself home all week. On Tuesday, he spoke at the Men’s Golf Fellowship at Pelican Bay.

“Me and Larry Mize and Larry Moody, our Tour chaplain,” Barron said. “And they do that every year. So we had a good time. I like to tell it like it is, so I like to entertain the guys and be real. I think everyone had a good time, so it was cool.”

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Fred Couples knows the obstacles facing the Premier Golf League

Fred Couples spoke about the Premier Golf League concept at Thursday’s Chubb Classic on the PGA Tour Champions.

Fred Couples has an idea of how this feels.

Back in 2002, Couples was among those involved with what was going to become the Majors Champions Tour. They had talked a TV contract with Fox and were pushing forward with the idea of creating a tour for pros ages 37 to 55 who had won major championships.

Then it never got off the ground.

Now there’s discussion of another new tour, the Premier Golf League, with a team concept and millions of dollars in purses, and with Phil Mickelson talking about it publicly and even playing with some of its backers.

After the tour’s stop at Torrey Pines in San Diego, Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, sent a memo to players that was obtained by The Associated Press. In the memo, Monahan talked of the Tour’s strength, reminded players of the releases needed to play other tours and also noted that the tour would not be working with the Premier Golf League.

“If the Team Golf Concept or another iteration of this structure becomes a reality in 2022 or at any time before or after, our members will have to decide whether they want to continue to be a member of the PGA Tour or play on a new series,” the memo read, according to The AP.

And that’s all it took for Couples to share his thoughts on the chances of the Premier Golf League coming into existence.

“I saw Jay Monahan’s quote. That’s how long I follow it,” Couples said Thursday from The Classics at Lely Resort, where the two-time Chubb Classic champion was practicing for this week.

“You play there, you don’t play on the Tour,” he said in summarizing Monahan’s sentiments. “Your choice. You want to win one of these things or you want to win the L.A. Open?

“So that’s what I was reading.”

With the discussion of the Premier Golf League, Greg Norman’s idea for a world tour that was also, according to Norman, derailed by the tour in 1994 (only for the World Golf Championships to come into being a few years later) has been brought up.

The Majors Champions Tour also got close to becoming reality. At least it had something close to a TV contract, as compared to the Premier Golf League at this stage.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Couples had talked to Terry Jastrow, who had been a senior producer of golf at ABC for 20 years, about drawing up a proposal and also trying to get a TV deal. Jastrow met with Fox, which termed the proposal “interesting.”

The tour was slated to play traditional courses such as Merion, Winged Foot and Oakmont, with a guarantee per player of $500,000 – again, this was in 2002.

At that time, players who would’ve been eligible included names like Couples, Norman, Bernhard Langer, Nick Price, Nick Faldo, Curtis Strange, Mark O’Meara, Tom Lehman, Corey Pavin and Paul Azinger.

“I was talking to them,” Langer said Tuesday. “Again, it’s in competition with the existing tour. Those guys, so if you take top 50 in the world or whatever, 10 might fall out because they want to have the young talent come up. So where do those 10 go? You’re not exempt anywhere, so where do you go? You’re done. The tours didn’t like it basically, I think. You’re dealing in direct competition unless they’re involved.”

“I just don’t think it’s viable,” said Jack Nicklaus, whom Jastrow contacted, back in 2002. “I just don’t think financially they can make it. I don’t think they’ll ever get the golf courses. I don’t think the tour would ever let it happen. I don’t think the guys would leave. There’s just so many things that have to happen, I just don’t think it’s possible.”

On Thursday, the other part of the equation Couples and Lehman pointed to regarding why the Premier Golf League will have a hard time is the health of the current Tour, which has a $9.3 million purse this week in Los Angeles and is on the verge of a new TV deal with a reported 60-percent increase over the previous one, according to Sports Business Journal.

“I really don’t know very much about it,” Lehman said Thursday of the Premier Golf League. “I think professional golf has a good thing going, so I would hate to see something come along that just ruins it. And I’m not saying that something new would ruin it, I’m just saying be careful.”

“So, what are these guys going to pay?” Couples said, referring to the Premier Golf League, which has a reported Saudi Arabian financial backing. “Who cares? … These guys are making a bundle. If they make another million and a half or two, God bless them. But when you cannot play the PGA Tour, but play that?

“… The PGA Tour ain’t going away, last I checked on it.”

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Tim Herron ready to make debut on ‘casual’ PGA Tour Champions

Tim Herron will make his senior circuit debut at the Chubb Classic in Naples, Florida, this week.

NAPLES, Fla. — Tim Herron can’t wait to take some new lumps after joining the PGA Tour Champions.

And Herron, who turned 50 on Feb. 6, is absolutely fine with that. He is nicknamed “Lumpy” after all.

“It’s still somewhat casual out here and I’m going to kind of take that and not get too intense with it,” Herron said Wednesday at the Chubb Classic, where he’ll make his tour debut at The Classics at Lely Resort this week. “I know these guys can still play and there’s a lot of guys that take it serious.

“It’s a time in life to play some serious golf but also have some fun. That’s what I’m looking forward to do. I think it’s a perfect fit for me.”

It pretty much encompasses Herron, who won four times on the PGA Tour, has embraced the nickname, and is more than ready to do some damage on the 50-and-over tour. He even made a hype video on YouTube, featuring Herron hitting a tee shot and then putting on glasses to try to track the ball.

“He’s got a great personality,” Champions Tour player John Daly said. “He’s great with people. He’s going to fit this tour just perfect.”

Herron has not shied away from the nickname he got from a job he had in Wayzata, Minnesota, as a kid.

In fact, he’s marketed it, well, to a T (or tee).

“The nickname is a brand, so we’re going to keep it like that,” Herron said.
Herron was working at a golf pro shop when his fellow workers asked if he had a nickname. He said no, then went to pick balls at the driving range. He had one when he came back.

“I came up after picking the range, and they said ‘Lumpy, how are you doing? Do you like your nickname?’ I said ‘No,'” Herron said. “Because I said ‘No’ I learned from right there that it was probably going to stick. It stuck all the way through all of the years.”

And Herron has taken it all the way to the bank.

LumpCo.com has everything from apparel to a best-of awards (and that includes snacks and even his favorite ATM at a tour stop) and has an advice section. His last piece of advice was from November, and concerned the easily-tied-into-golf subject of romance.

“DEAR LUMPY: My dad golfs. Anyway, I’m a seventh grader at Cedar Creek Middle School. ThereTim H’s a super cute boy named Josh in my science class that I like, but I don’t even think he knows I exist. What should I do?

DEAR BEAKERS & BOYS: Take him to Arby’s and make him a Justin Bieber mix. My World and Believe; JB’s strongest records, display his vocal range and passion for going steady, while 2010’s, My World 2.0 left me feeling empty inside.”

Gold for sure.

The site also has a “Masters” link, and it does concern that Masters, the major championship golf tournament played each April, but not exactly.

As Herron describes in the section, he dropped some marinara sauce on the practice green in 1998 and hasn’t been invited back. So while some apparel-driven golfers may post what their outfits are going to be during certain tournaments, like majors, Herron does the same.

Last year? A green body suit for getting body-mapped for “Full Shoulder Turn 2020” on Thursday, a full coat with a hood for cleaning his garage on Friday, a full swim suit, floppy hat and flip flops after getting a Groupon for the water park Saturday, and an old-age European-looking green outfit complete with tights to hand out samples at his friend’s wife’s cheese shop on Sunday.

Herron also is active on Twitter, and has more than 11,000 followers. Of course, he had to have fun with his Twitter profile too. “Led the tour in backspin and follow-through in 2008. Once ate a whole Bloomin’ Onion,” it says in part.

Last year, he tweeted at Lakers star LeBron James that he would teach James to get out of a bunker, if James could teach the 5-foot-10, 250-pound Herron how to windmill dunk. And he did it on a Tuesday, so he had to play into James’ creation of Taco Tuesday by placing a taco — after taking a bite out of it — next to a ball on a tee and hitting both.

“I didn’t get anything back (from James) I don’t think,” he said. “I showed him how to hit a shot off a taco, so …”

Now Herron has the perfect pairing for tacos — his own beer, called Lumpy’s Lager from Bauhaus Brew Labs in Minneapolis. Herron said the beer is “course tested” and recently debuted a commercial on social media.

All kidding aside, Herron has kept himself ready, playing on both the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour. He missed the cut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am last week.

“I played anywhere from 12 to 18 events out on the tour (the past few years),” he said. “I felt that was probably good enough.”

In addition to spreading the Lumpy name, he also got some quality family time with the more abbreviated schedule.

“I really got to know my kids (Carson, Mick and Patrick) in the last six years, so that’s been good. I think they’re ready for me to be on the road a little bit. My goal is to get every kid out, just one-on-one and have them come out every so often.”

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Phil Mickelson takes shots at USGA and R&A over distance report and more

Phil Mickelson questioned whether the USGA and R&A were qualified to make equipment rulings that could effect the professional game

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Phil Mickelson read the USGA and R&A’s distance report that was released Tuesday and took his share of jabs at golf’s governing bodies during his pre-tournament press conference on the eve of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Mickelson’s biggest beef with the report, which expressed concern for distance gains becoming “unsustainable,“ was his opposition to what he perceives as punishing athletes for getting better.

“I don’t think that we have had massive equipment changes. We have just had athletes that have been able to take advantage of the equipment more so than in the past. And I hate to see that discouraged,” Mickelson said. “You look at what Bryson (DeChambeau) has done getting in the gym, getting after it, lifting weights, and hitting bombs, and now he’s – now you’re talking about trying to roll it back because he’s made himself a better athlete. So, I don’t know if I agree with that. But I also don’t really understand the whole scope of how it affects the game and how it affects agronomy and golf courses and so forth, so I’m not sure I’m the best one to really comment on it. I just know from the small little bubble of the PGA Tour, I hate seeing the athletes be punished or discouraged from continuing to work and get better.”

Mickelson also questioned whether the USGA and R&A were qualified to be making decisions that would shape the future of professional golf.

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“I struggle with some of our governing bodies,” Mickelson said. “I struggle with it because we’re the only sport, we’re the only professional sport in the world that is governed by a group of amateurs, and that leads to some questionable directions that we go down. I wish that we had people that are involved in the sport professionally to be in charge a little bit more.”

Mickelson slinged his last arrow directly at the USGA and its U.S. Senior Open, which will be held at Newport (R.I.) Country Club, June 25-28. It would be the first PGA Tour Champions event that he is eligible for after turning 50 on June 16. It is scheduled the week after the U.S. Open at Winged Foot Golf Club, where Mickelson has one of his six runner-up finishes.

When asked if he had any interest in playing the U.S. Senior Open and if winning the title would bring a certain level of satisfaction to him, Mickelson answered, “None whatsoever. No.”

For playing it or satisfaction, he was asked.

“Both,” Mickelson said.

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Brett Quigley, winless in 408 PGA Tour starts, wins Morocco Champions

Brett Quigley never won in 408 tries on the PGA Tour. On Saturday, he won his 2nd start on the PGA Tour Champions at the Morocco Champions.

Brett Quigley never won in 408 tries on the PGA Tour.

On Saturday, he won his second start on the PGA Tour Champions at the Morocco Champions.

Quigley last won a tournament at the 2001 Arkansas Classic on the now Korn Ferry Tour.

“It’s been so long since I won a tournament,” Quigley told pgatour.com. “Just incredible. It’s weird, I had a peace all week, I was pretty comfortable all week. I wouldn’t say I was nervous until the last hole here on my second putt, but just felt comfortable and just felt comfortable here in Marrakesh.”

Quigley did finish second five times in those 408 starts and has earned more than $11 million in his playing career.

Morocco Champions: Leaderboard

But he finally won another tournament after rallying from a three-stroke deficit to start the final round.

Stephen Ames entered the day with the lead but Quigley shot a second straight 66 to finish at 15 under. Ames shot a 70 to finish a shot back. Doug Barron and Scott Parol were T-3 at 11 under.

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19th hole: Senior tour’s problem is one Phil is unlikely to address

Phil Mickelson turns 50 this year, but there’s little chance he’ll be showing up on the senior circuit any time soon.

This ought to have been an outstanding week for Miller Brady. The PGA Tour Champions, of which Brady is president, began its season in Hawaii with more fanfare than usual thanks to the debut of Hall of Famer Ernie Els. Nor is Els the only major winner who will slather on the Bengay and saddle up for the senior circuit in 2020. Jim Furyk and Mike Weir both turn 50 on May 12, with Rich Beem following in August.

Yet for all the promise this year holds for Brady, it presents a problem too: Phil Mickelson.

Mickelson turns 50 on June 16. That’s Tuesday of U.S. Open week at Winged Foot, a tournament he may need — and would almost certainly receive — an exemption into. The first old guys event for which he’s eligible is the U.S. Senior Open, held one week later at Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. Since Mickelson remains focused on completing the career grand slam at the U.S. Open, what are the chances he’s going to pitch up at the geriatric version of the event?

Slim and none, and slim just left town, as Curtis Strange used to say.

“I haven’t thought too much about it and I won’t until I see how the first six months of this year go,” Mickelson said earlier this week while hosting The American Express stop on the PGA Tour. “It’s nice to have the option to move over to another Tour, but it’s also nice to have the challenge of competing out here.”

“When I stop hitting bombs I’ll play the Champions Tour, but I’m hitting some crazy bombs right now,” he added with an impish grin. “No, I still have speed. There’s no reason I couldn’t play out here. I hit the ball every bit as far.”

Mickelson’s comments can’t have been comforting for Brady, who may find himself running a 50s-and-over Tour that the world’s best 50-year-old considers beneath his competitive level. When I asked his reaction to Mickelson’s breezy dismissal of senior golf, Brady remained typically upbeat.

“Phil has been one of the biggest stars in all of sports for nearly three decades, and it has been amazing to see how competitive he’s remained in his late 40s. When he’s ready to compete on the PGA Tour Champions, I think he will enjoy the competition and camaraderie while playing alongside the guys he grew up with,” he replied. “If that’s this year, next year or further down the line, his presence will create a tremendous level of excitement for our fans.”

Except Mickelson doesn’t seem too excited at the prospect of playing alongside guys he grew up with. He’d rather be schooling the kids. He wants to trash talk with guys like Justin Thomas, not compare orthopedic inserts with Colin Montgomerie. And his likely absence can’t help but weaken the PGA Tour Champions. Sure, Els might play well consistently and elevate the circuit’s profile, but senior events are often glorified pitch and putt contests, and Ernie’s putter left him years ago. Brady is staring at another year of trying to build a compelling product around the Scott McCarrons of the world.

On the face of it, the PGA Tour Champions is robust. There are 27 stops on the ‘20 schedule with a total prize fund nearing $60 million. Viewership on Golf Channel averages 133,000, equal to LPGA events and better than the Korn Ferry Tour (figures are skewed since Champions events are usually measured over three days versus four for other Tours). But 40 years after it was founded, the PGA Tour Champions has long since ceased being a showcase for fading legends and is instead an annuity for journeymen who couldn’t draw a crowd if they were playing in thongs amid the many vigorous widows at The Villages.

This won’t present as a problem to players currently reaping the benefits of the Tour — and there are surely some who will be happy not to have greater competition at the trough — but Mickelson matters simply because there aren’t any more with his star power waiting in the wings. This is where we see the trickle-down effect of Tiger Woods having impoverished the trophy cases of a generation. Every Tour needs its superstar, and Mickelson is the last undisputed legend the PGA Tour Champions will see this side of Woods getting his AARP card six years hence. And a man with young kids and a broken body who doesn’t need the money probably isn’t a great bet to play either.

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Miguel Angel Jimenez beats Ernie Els, Fred Couples in playoff, wins PGA Tour Champions’ opener

Miguel Angel Jimenez won a playoff against Ernie Els and Fred Couples to claim the PGA Tour Champions’ opener in Hawaii.

What’s better than a victory cigar in Hawaii?

Miguel Angel Jimenez made a clutch 12-foot birdie putt on a second playoff hole Saturday night, taking down Ernie Els to win the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualala, the season opener for the PGA TOUR Champions.

Fred Couples made bogey and lost in the first playoff hole.

“I said to my caddie, `The winning score is going to be 15-under par and we need to hurry up and make birdie,'” said Jimenez, who went on to make clutch birdies on holes 13-15 to get into contention.

The 56-year-old now has won in each of his seven seasons on the senior tour, with nine victories total, including a previous win at Hualalai in 2015.

Leaderboard: Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai

“Played well every year here and it’s nice to have a second win,” Jimenez said.

“Disappointing, obviously,” Els said of his debut on the senior circuit. “I would have loved to got it through, but I had a couple of chances, didn’t quite get the right speed or the right line, but all good. Congrats to Miguel.”

The PGA Tour Champions tee off again Jan. 30-Feb. 1 at the Morocco Champions at Samanah Golf Club in Marrakech, Morocco.

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Scott McCarron named PGA Tour Champions Player of the Year 2019

Scott McCarron was named PGA Tour Champions Player of the Year while Retief Goosen took home PGA Tour Champions Rookie of the Year honors.

Scott McCarron was named PGA Tour Champions Player of the Year while Retief Goosen took home PGA Tour Champions Rookie of the Year honors for the 2019 season.

The two awards were announced on Tuesday, two days before the tour’s 2020 season-opener, the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai Golf Club in Hawaii.

Last season, McCarron won three times, was runner-up three times and posted 14 top-10s while taking home the Charles Schwab Cup. He won more than $2.5 million in prize money along the way.

McCarron edged out Jerry Kelly, who also had three wins, as well as Steve Stricker, Bernhard Langer, Kevin Sutherland, Kirk Triplett and Miguel Ángel Jiménez, who all won twice.

Goosen won the Rookie of the Year award over Doug Barron. Goosen had the lowest scoring average (69.14) of the season.

In other PGA Tour Champions news, 2019 Presidents Cup captain Ernie Els will play on the circuit for the first time this week at the Mitsubishi, a 54-hole event that will be played Thursday-Saturday.

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2020 PGA Tour Champions schedule, results

Here is the upcoming schedule and the results for the 2020 PGA Tour Champions season.

Here is the 2020 PGA Tour Champions schedule, with each of the 29 events listed with its date, name, course, location, purse and, once determined, winner.

Date Tournament Course Location Purse Winner
Jan. 16-18 Mitsubishi Electric Championship Hualalai GC Ka’upulehu-Kona, Hawaii $1.8 million TBD
Jan. 30-Feb. 1 Morocco Champions Samanah GC Marrakech, Morocco $2 million TBD
Feb. 14-16 Chubb Classic The Classics at Lely Resort Naples, Florida $1.6 million TBD
Feb. 28-March 1 Cologuard Classic Omni Tucson National Tucson, Arizona $1.7 million TBD
March 6-8 Hoag Classic Newport Beach CC Newport Beach, California $1.8 million TBD
March 27-29 Rapiscan Systems Classic Fallen Oak Biloxi, Mississippi $1.6 million TBD
April 17-19 Mitsubishi Electric Classic TPC Sugarloaf Duluth, Georgia $1.8 million TBD
May 1-3 Insperity Invitational The Woodlands CC The Woodlands, Texas $2.25 million TBD
May 7-10 Regios Tradition Greystone Golf & CC Birningham, Alabama $2.4 million
May 21-24 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship Harbor Shores Benton Harbor, Michigan $3.25 million TBD
May 29-31 Principal Charity Classic Wakonda Club Des Moines, Iowa $1.85 million TBD
June 5-7 American Family Insurance Championship University Ridge GC Madison, Wisconsin $2.4 million TBD
June 12-14 Mastercard Japan Championship Narita GC Narita-shi, Chiba, Japan $2.5 million TBD
June 25-28 U.S. Senior Open Newport CC Newport, Rhode Island $4 million TBD
July 9-12 Bridgestone Senior Players Championship Firestone CC Akron, Ohio $2.8 million TBD
July 23-26 The Senior Open Championship Sunningdale GC Bershire, England $2 million TBD
July 31-Aug. 2 The Ally Challenge Warwick Hills Grand Blanc, Michigan $2 million TBD
Aug. 14-16 DICK’S Sporting Goods Open En-Joie GC Endicott, New York $2.05 million TBD
Aug. 21-23 Boeing Classic The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge Snoqualmie, Washington $2.1 million TBD
Aug. 28-30 Shaw Charity Classic Canyon Meadows Calgary, Alberta, Canada $2.35 million TBD
Sept. 11-13 Sanford International Minnehaha CC Sioux Falls, South Dakota $1.8 million TBD
Sept. 18-20 PURE Insurance Championship Pebble Beach Monterey Peninsula, California $2.2 million TBD
Oct. 2-4 Ascension Charity Classic Norwood Hills CC St. Louis, Missouri $2 million TBD
Oct. 9-11 SAS Championship Prestonwood CC Cary, North Carolina $2.1 million TBD
Oct. 16-18 Dominion Energy Charity Classic Country Club of Virginia Richmond, Virginia $2 million TBD
Oct. 30-Nov. 1 Boca Raton Championship The Old Course at Broken Sound Boca Raton, Florida $2 million TBD
Nov. 5-8 Charles Schwab Cup Championship Phoenix Country Club Phoenix, Arizona $2.5 million TBD
Nov. 17-20 2021 PGA Tour Champions Qualifying-Final Stage TPC Tampa Bay Lutz, Florida $2 million TBD
Dec. 17-20 PNC Father Son Challenge Ritz-Carlton GC Orlando, Florida $1.085 million TBD

 

Nominees announced for PGA Tour Champions player, rookie of the year honors

Check out who’s in the running for the PGA Tour Champions end of the year awards.

As the only players in 2019 to win multiple times, seven players have been nominated for the PGA Tour Champions Player of the Year award.

Miguel Angel Jimenez, Jerry Kelly, Bernhard Langer, Scott McCarron, Steve Stricker, Kevin Sutherland and Kirk Triplett are all vying for the honor. Five of the seven nominees finished inside the top 10 in the race for the Charles Schwab Cup, won by McCarron, who ended Langer’s seven-year run atop the tour’s money list.

The favorite to win, McCarron won the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, Insperity Invitational and Mastercard Japan Championship and finished runner-up at the Senior PGA Championship, Cologuard Classic and Shaw Charity Classic. He sat atop the Charles Schwab Cup standings for the last 21 weeks of the season.

As for the Rookie of the Year award, Retief Goosen and Doug Barron were nominated. Both awards will be presented next month at the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai in Hawaii.

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