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Senior Players Championship
Major championship on golf's PGA Tour Champions
Major championship on golf's PGA Tour Champions
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Kaulig Companies Championship |
| location | Akron, Ohio |
| establishment | 1983 |
| course | Firestone Country Club |
| (South Course) | |
| par | 70 |
| yardage | 7248 yd |
| tour | PGA Tour Champions |
| format | Stroke play |
| purse | |
| month_played | July |
| final_year | |
| aggregate | 261 Jack Nicklaus (1990) |
| 261 Kenny Perry (2013) | |
| score | −27 Jack Nicklaus (1990) |
| current_champion | ESP Miguel Ángel Jiménez |
| map | USA#USA Ohio |
| map_label | Firestone CC |
| map_caption | Location in the United States##Location in Ohio |
| map_relief | yes |
| map_size | 240 |
| coordinates |
(South Course) 261 Kenny Perry (2013) The Kaulig Companies Championship, formerly known as the Senior Players Championship, stylised by the PGA Tour as The SENIOR PLAYERS, is one of the five major championships on golf's PGA Tour Champions. The inaugural event was played in 1983 and the age minimum is 50, the standard for men's senior professional golf tournaments.
The winner gains entry into the following season's Players Championship on the PGA Tour (although Retief Goosen, the 2019 winner, was not allowed to play in the official subsequent Players Championship). In 2022, businessman Matt Kaulig, whose enterprises include LeafFilter and a NASCAR team, took over title sponsorship of the event, renaming it the Kaulig Companies Championship.
Unlike the U.S. Senior Open, the Senior PGA Championship, and the Senior Open Championship, it is not recognized as a major by the European Senior Tour, and is not part of that tour's schedule.
Since 2019, the Senior Players championship has been held at the South course of the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio; it replaced the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational that had been held there before moving to Memphis, Tennessee.
Course layout
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yards | 399 | 526 | 420 | 450 | 200 | 460 | 219 | 470 | 461 | 3,605 | 410 | 418 | 180 | 450 | 460 | 221 | 640 | 400 | 464 | 3,643 | 7,248 |
| Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 70 |
Early years
The first four editions were at Canterbury Golf Club near Cleveland; the inaugural in 1983 had fifty players, no cut, and a purse of $250,000; Miller Barber won the title and $40,000, sinking a 10 ft birdie putt on the final hole to finish one stroke ahead of runner-up Gene Littler. Arnold Palmer was seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth.
Palmer won the next year by three strokes, and successfully defended the title in 1985, winning by eleven strokes. Heavy rains on Thursday afternoon reduced the tournament to 54 holes in 1986, and Chi-Chi Rodríguez gained the first of his 22 wins on the senior tour, two strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| victory | Runner(s)-up | Winner's | ||||||||||||||
| share ($) | Venue | Location | Kaulig Companies Championship | Bridgestone Senior Players Championship | Constellation Senior Players Championship | Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship | Ford Senior Players Championship | The Senior Players Championship | Mazda Senior Tournament Players Championship | Senior Tournament Players Championship | ||||||
| 2025 | ESP Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 270 | −10 | Playoff | NZL Steven Alker | 525,000 | Firestone | |||||||||
| (South Course) | Akron, Ohio | |||||||||||||||
| 2024 | ZAF Ernie Els | 270 | −10 | 1 stroke | KOR Yang Yong-eun | 525,000 | Firestone | |||||||||
| (South Course) | Akron, Ohio | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | USA Steve Stricker (2) | 269 | −11 | 3 strokes | USA David Toms | 525,000 | Firestone | |||||||||
| (South Course) | Akron, Ohio | |||||||||||||||
| 2022 | USA Jerry Kelly (2) | 269 | −11 | 2 strokes | USA Steve Stricker | 450,000 | Firestone | |||||||||
| (South Course) | Akron, Ohio | |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | USA Steve Stricker | 273 | −7 | 6 strokes | USA Jerry Kelly | 420,000 | Firestone | |||||||||
| (South Course) | Akron, Ohio | |||||||||||||||
| 2020 | USA Jerry Kelly | 277 | −3 | 2 strokes | USA Scott Parel | 420,000 | Firestone | |||||||||
| (South Course) | Akron, Ohio | |||||||||||||||
| 2019 | ZAF Retief Goosen | 274 | −6 | 2 strokes | USA Jay Haas | |||||||||||
| USA Tim Petrovic | 420,000 | Firestone | ||||||||||||||
| (South Course) | Akron, Ohio | |||||||||||||||
| 2018 | FIJ Vijay Singh | 268 | −20 | Playoff | USA Jeff Maggert | 420,000 | Exmoor | Highland Park, Illinois | ||||||||
| 2017 | USA Scott McCarron | 270 | −18 | 1 stroke | USA Brandt Jobe | |||||||||||
| GER Bernhard Langer | 420,000 | Caves Valley | Owings Mills, Maryland | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | GER Bernhard Langer (3) | 281 | +1 | 1 stroke | USA Joe Durant | |||||||||||
| ESP Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 420,000 | Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||
| (Wissahickon Course) | Flourtown, Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | GER Bernhard Langer (2) | 265 | −19 | 5 strokes | USA Kirk Triplett | 405,000 | Belmont | Belmont, Massachusetts | ||||||||
| 2014 | GER Bernhard Langer | 265 | −15 | Playoff | USA Jeff Sluman | 405,000 | Fox Chapel | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||||||
| 2013 | USA Kenny Perry | 261 | −19 | 5 strokes | USA Fred Funk | 405,000 | Fox Chapel | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||||||
| 2012 | USA Joe Daley | 266 | −14 | 2 strokes | USA Tom Lehman | 405,000 | Fox Chapel | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||||||
| 2011 | USA Fred Couples | 273 | −11 | Playoff | USA John Cook | 405,000 | Westchester | Harrison, New York | ||||||||
| 2010 | USA Mark O'Meara | 273 | −7 | Playoff | USA Michael Allen | 405,000 | TPC Potomac | Potomac, Maryland | ||||||||
| 2009 | USA Jay Haas | 267 | −13 | 1 stroke | USA Tom Watson | 405,000 | Baltimore | |||||||||
| (East Course) | Timonium, Maryland | |||||||||||||||
| 2008 | USA D. A. Weibring | 271 | −9 | 1 stroke | USA Fred Funk | 390,000 | Baltimore | |||||||||
| (East Course) | Timonium, Maryland | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | USA Loren Roberts | 267 | −13 | 6 strokes | USA Tom Watson | 390,000 | Baltimore | |||||||||
| (East Course) | Timonium, Maryland | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 | USA Bobby Wadkins | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | USA Jim Thorpe | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 2005 | USA Peter Jacobsen | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | USA Hale Irwin | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 2004 | ENG Mark James | 275 | −13 | 1 stroke | ESP José María Cañizares | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 2003 | USA Craig Stadler | 271 | −17 | 3 strokes | USA Tom Kite | |||||||||||
| USA Jim Thorpe | ||||||||||||||||
| USA Tom Watson | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | |||||||||||||
| 2002 | AUS Stewart Ginn | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | USA Hubert Green | |||||||||||
| USA Mike McCullough | ||||||||||||||||
| USA Jim Thorpe | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | |||||||||||||
| 2001 | USA Allen Doyle | 273 | −15 | Playoff | USA Doug Tewell | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 2000 | USA Raymond Floyd (2) | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | USA Larry Nelson | |||||||||||
| USA Dana Quigley | 345,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | USA Hale Irwin | 267 | −21 | 7 strokes | AUS Graham Marsh | 300,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 1998 | USA Gil Morgan | 267 | −21 | 3 strokes | USA Hale Irwin | 300,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 1997 | USA Larry Gilbert | 274 | −14 | 3 strokes | JPN Isao Aoki | |||||||||||
| USA Bob Dickson | ||||||||||||||||
| USA Jack Kiefer | ||||||||||||||||
| USA Dave Stockton | 270,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | |||||||||||||
| 1996 | USA Raymond Floyd | 275 | −13 | 2 strokes | USA Hale Irwin | 225,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 1995 | USA J. C. Snead | 272 | −16 | Playoff | USA Jack Nicklaus | 225,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 1994 | USA Dave Stockton (2) | 271 | −17 | 6 strokes | USA Jim Albus | 210,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 1993 | USA Jim Colbert | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | USA Raymond Floyd | 180,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 1992 | USA Dave Stockton | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | USA J. C. Snead | |||||||||||
| USA Lee Trevino | 150,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | |||||||||||||
| 1991 | USA Jim Albus | 279 | −9 | 3 strokes | NZL Bob Charles | |||||||||||
| USA Charles Coody | ||||||||||||||||
| USA Dave Hill | 150,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan | |||||||||||||
| 1990 | USA Jack Nicklaus | 261 | −27 | 6 strokes | USA Lee Trevino | 150,000 | Dearborn | Dearborn, Michigan | ||||||||
| 1989 | USA Orville Moody | 271 | −17 | 2 strokes | USA Charles Coody | 105,000 | TPC at Sawgrass | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida | ||||||||
| 1988 | USA Billy Casper | 278 | −10 | 2 strokes | USA Al Geiberger | 60,000 | TPC at Sawgrass | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida | ||||||||
| 1987 | ZAF Gary Player | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | AUS Bruce Crampton | |||||||||||
| USA Chi-Chi Rodríguez | 60,000 | Sawgrass | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida | |||||||||||||
| 1986 | USA Chi-Chi Rodríguez | 206 | −10 | 2 strokes | AUS Bruce Crampton | 45,000 | Canterbury | Beachwood, Ohio | ||||||||
| 1985 | USA Arnold Palmer (2) | 274 | −14 | 11 strokes | USA Miller Barber | |||||||||||
| USA Lee Elder | ||||||||||||||||
| USA Gene Littler | ||||||||||||||||
| USA Charles Owens | 36,000 | Canterbury | Beachwood, Ohio | |||||||||||||
| 1984 | USA Arnold Palmer | 276 | −12 | 3 strokes | AUS Peter Thomson | 36,000 | Canterbury | Beachwood, Ohio | ||||||||
| 1983 | USA Miller Barber | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | USA Gene Littler | 40,000 | Canterbury | Beachwood, Ohio |
Multiple winners
Through 2023, six players had multiple wins in the Senior Players Championship:
- 3 wins: Bernhard Langer (2014, 2015, 2016)
- 2 wins: Arnold Palmer (1984, 1985), Dave Stockton (1992, 1994), Raymond Floyd (1996, 2000), Jerry Kelly (2020, 2022), Steve Stricker (2021, 2023)
Winners of both The Players and the Senior Players
Three have won both The Players Championship and the Senior Players Championship:
| Player | The Players Championship | Senior Players Championship |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Nicklaus | 1974, 1976, 1978 | 1990 |
| Raymond Floyd | 1981 | 1996, 2000 |
| Fred Couples | 1984, 1996 | 2011 |
| Year | Venue | Location | Dates | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
Notes
References
References
- (June 10, 1983). "Snead takes aim". Youngstown Vindicator.
- (June 11, 1983). "Miller Barber, Littler lead". Youngstown Vindicator.
- (June 13, 1983). "Barber wins seniors title". Youngstown Vindicator.
- Ridenour, Maria. (June 15, 2022). "Kaulig Companies to become title sponsor for Senior Players Championship, which will stay at Firestone Country Club".
- Wright, Branson. (April 12, 2018). "WGC-Bridgestone Invitational will leave Firestone in 2019 (photos)".
- (June 25, 1984). "Rested Palmer decides it helps to be inspired". Eugene Register-Guard.
- (June 24, 1985). "Refreshed Palmer sets senior mark". Eugene Register-Guard.
- (June 20, 1986). "Rain stops seniors". Toledo Blade.
- (June 24, 1985). "Rodriguez wins Senior TPC crown". Eugene Register-Guard.
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