2009 Champions Tour

The 2009 Champions Tour was the 30th season since the Champions Tour officially began in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour. The season consisted of 25 official money events with purses totalling $48,875,000, including five majors. Bernhard Langer won the most tournaments, four. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 2009 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold. Golfers winning on their Champions Tour debut are shown in italics.

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse ($)	Winner	Score	1st prize ($)
Jan 25	Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai	Hawaii	1,800,000	Bernhard Langer (5)	198 (−18)	315,000
Feb 15	Allianz Championship	Florida	1,700,000	Mike Goodes (1)	201 (−15)	255,000
Feb 22	The ACE Group Classic	Florida	1,600,000	Loren Roberts (9)	209 (−7)	240,000
Mar 8	Toshiba Classic	California	1,700,000	Eduardo Romero (5)	202 (−11)	255,000
Mar 15	AT&T Champions Classic	California	1,600,000	Dan Forsman (1)	205 (−11)	240,000
Mar 29	Cap Cana Championship	Dominican Republic	2,100,000	Keith Fergus (2)	203 (−13)	315,000
Apr 19	Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am	Florida	1,700,000	Nick Price (1)	204 (−9)	255,000
Apr 26	Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf	Georgia	2,600,000	Bernhard Langer (6) & Tom Lehman (1)	189 (−27)	225,000 (each)
May 17	Regions Charity Classic	Alabama	1,700,000	Keith Fergus (3)	132 (−12)	255,000
May 24	Senior PGA Championship	Ohio	2,000,000	Michael Allen (1)	274 (−6)	360,000
May 31	Principal Charity Classic	Iowa	1,725,000	Mark McNulty (7)	203 (−10)	258,750
Jun 7	Triton Financial Classic	Texas	1,600,000	Bernhard Langer (7)	201 (−15)	240,000
Jun 28	Dick's Sporting Goods Open	New York	1,650,000	Lonnie Nielsen (2)	195 (−21)	247,500
Jul 12	3M Championship	Minnesota	1,750,000	Bernhard Langer (8)	200 (−16)	262,500
Jul 26	Senior British Open	England	2,000,000	Loren Roberts (10)	268 (−12)	315,600
Aug 2	U.S. Senior Open	Indiana	2,600,000	Fred Funk (5)	268 (−20)	470,000
Aug 23	JELD-WEN Tradition	Oregon	2,700,000	Mike Reid (2)	272 (−16)	392,000
Aug 30	Boeing Classic	Washington	1,800,000	Loren Roberts (11)	198 (−18)	270,000
Sep 6	Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach	California	2,100,000	Jeff Sluman (3)	206 (−10)	315,000
Sep 20	Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn	North Carolina	1,750,000	Jay Haas (13)	198 (−18)	262,500
Sep 27	SAS Championship	North Carolina	2,100,000	Tom Pernice, Jr. (1)	203 (−13)	315,000
Oct 4	Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship	Maryland	2,700,000	Jay Haas (14)	267 (−13)	405,000
Oct 18	Administaff Small Business Classic	Texas	1,700,000	John Cook (3)	205 (−11)	255,000
Oct 25	AT&T Championship	Texas	1,700,000	Phil Blackmar (1)	203 (−10)	255,000
Nov 1	Charles Schwab Cup Championship	California	2,500,000	John Cook (4)	266 (−22)	442,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Average
1	Bernhard Langer	Germany	68.92
2	Jay Haas	United States	69.25
3	Loren Roberts	United States	69.65
4	Mark O'Meara	United States	69.69
5	Tom Watson	United States	69.69

Source:^[1]

Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Events	Wins
1	Bernhard Langer	Germany	2,139,451	20	4
2	Loren Roberts	United States	1,960,613	22	3
3	John Cook	United States	1,798,664	23	2
4	Jay Haas	United States	1,758,395	21	2
5	Fred Funk	United States	1,563,810	21	1

Source:^[2]

Career Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Wins
1	Hale Irwin	United States	25,217,826	45
2	Gil Morgan	United States	19,600,904	25
3	Dana Quigley	United States	14,634,841	11
4	Bruce Fleisher	United States	14,406,862	18
5	Tom Kite	United States	13,727,373	10

Source:^[3]

Awards

Award	Winner	Country
Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Trophy)	Bernhard Langer	Germany
Money winner (Arnold Palmer Award)	Bernhard Langer	Germany
Charles Schwab Cup	Loren Roberts	United States
Scoring leader (Byron Nelson Award)	Bernhard Langer	Germany
Rookie of the Year	Russ Cochran	United States

References

↑ "Scoring Average – 2009 Champions Tour". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
↑ "Money Leaders – 2009 Champions Tour". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
↑ "Career Money Leaders – 2009 Champions Tour". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 1, 2014.

External links

Champions Tour official site

PGA Tour Champions seasons

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