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JOINED CHAMPIONS TOUR: 1993
CHAMPIONS TOUR VICTORIES (4): 1993
PGA Seniors’ Championship. 1994 Doug Sanders
Celebrity Classic. 1995 Dallas Reunion Pro-Am. 2000
LiquidGolf.com Invitational.
OTHER SENIOR VICTORIES (1): 1994 Senior
British Open.
2005 CHARLES SCHWAB CUP FINISH: 37th
- 276 points
GEORGIA-PACIFIC GRAND CHAMPIONS
VICTORIES (3): 2003 Toshiba Senior Classic,
Farmers Charity Classic. 2004 Allianz Championship.
BEST PGA TOUR CAREER FINISH: T28—1992
PGA Championship.
OTHER VICTORIES (3): 1990 Gateway PGA
Sectional Championship. 1991 PGA Club Professional
Winter Stroke Play Championship, Gateway PGA
Sectional Championship.
PGA TOUR CAREER EARNINGS: $16,058
BEST 2005 CHAMPIONS TOUR FINISHES:
T2—The ACE Group Classic; T4—Outback Steakhouse
Pro-Am, Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn.
2005 SEASON:
Bounced back from a sub-par 2004 season with his best
year since 2002…More than doubled his previous year's
earnings and had three top-10 finishes…Got out of the
gate quickly with two strong performances in his first two
starts in Florida…Eagle-birdie finish propelled him into an
eventual T2 with Hale Irwin at The ACE Group Classic, two
strokes back of Mark James. Performance in Naples was his
best on the Champions Tour since winning in Sarasota at the
2000 LiquidGolf.com Invitational…Finished T4 the following
week near Tampa at the weather-shortened Outback
Tom Wargo
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 30 on All-Time Money List
FULL NAME: Amos Tom Wargo
HEIGHT: 6-0
WEIGHT: 205
BIRTHDATE: September 16, 1942
BIRTHPLACE: Marlette, MI
RESIDENCE: Centralia, IL
CHAMPIONS TOUR CAREER SUMMARY PLAYOFF RECORD: 2-2
Year Events Played 1st 2nd 3rd Top 10 Top 25 Earnings Rank
1993 32 1 1 15 24 $557,270 16
1994 36 1 3 25 32 1,005,344 6
1995 33 1 2 2 14 24 844,687 9
1996 35 3 1 10 21 695,705 15
1997 33 1 8 15 567,419 24
1998 33 1 1 7 19 679,579 22
1999 32 5 13 498,621 40
2000 32 1 1 7 12 777,838 22
2001 23 1 10 314,188 54
2002 23 1 4 9 515,440 38
2003 23 1 7 277,301 53
2004 23 2 160,813 72
2005 20 1 3 5 413,782 40
Total 378 4 10 8 100 193 7,307,986
COMBINED ALL-TIME MONEY (3 TOURS): $7,327,102
Steakhouse Pro-Am. Made a late run during a rare
Monday finish, with birdies on four of his last six holes.
Performance at the TPC of Tampa Bay was his best there
since he was T4 in 1993…Added another T4 to his season
resume at the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn in
October, posting consecutive rounds in the 60s on the
weekend…Finished fifth on the Georgia-Pacific Grand
Champions money list, with $77,950, and finished T3 at
the year-end Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions
Championship near Atlanta.
CHAMPIONS TOUR CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
2004: Among the top 25 in just two events, both coming in
the middle third of the season…Closed with a 68 near
Birmingham to T20 at the Bruno's Memorial Classic and then
T22 at the Ford Senior Players Championship…Claimed his
third career Georgia-Pacific title at the Allianz event, defeating
Dave Eichelberger by a stroke. 2003: Lone top-10 finish
was T9 at rain-shortened SBC Classic in California. A
week later won his first Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions
title when he defeated Dave Stockton in two extra holes
at the Toshiba Senior Classic and also finished T13 overall…Claimed
his second Georgia-Pacific Grand
Champions title when he edged Stockton again by one
stroke at the Farmers Charity Classic…Was the leading
money-winner in the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions
competition, with $219,312, including $46,000 for his T2
finish at the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions
Championship in Sonoma, CA, at the end of the year. 2002:
Had his season cut short in mid-September when he suffered
a heart attack just prior to the start of the final round
at the RJR Championship. Underwent angioplasty shortly
after in Winston-Salem, NC, and did not play the remainder
of the year…Best showing came near Kansas City
where he vaulted from a T25 into a T3 at the rain-shortened
TD Waterhouse Championship…Had a rare feat at
the AT&T Canada Senior Open when he eagled the par-5
13th hole at Essex all three days. Was 6-under on that
hole, but played his other 51 holes for the week 1-over par.
PGATOUR.com Champions Tour 2006 Guide
FAMILY: Wife, Irene; Michelle (12/12/65); two
grandchildren
CLUB AFFILIATION: Greenview GC (Centralia, IL)
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Harley-Davidson motorcycles
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1976
Made his third hole-in-one on the Champions Tour (12th
overall) in the opening round of the Ford Senior Players
Championship. Aced the 192-yard fourth hole with a 5iron.
2001: Best finish a T6 at the Emerald Coast
Classic…Plagued much of the year with back problems.
2000: Ended a victory drought of nearly five years when he
defeated Gary McCord and J.C. Snead in a three-hole
playoff at the LiquidGolf.com Invitational, his first
Champions Tour title since the 1995 Dallas Reunion Pro-
Am (120 starts). Came from three strokes back of Bruce
Summerhays with a final-round 68 at The TPC at
Prestancia. 1998: Second by two strokes to Gil Morgan at
The Tradition. 1997: T3 at the U.S. Senior Open at Olympia
Fields CC near Chicago. Shared the first-round lead after
opening with a 69, and followed with rounds of 70-73-70
to finish two strokes behind Graham Marsh. 1996: Lost to
Dale Douglass on the third playoff hole for the Bell
Atlantic Classic title near Philadelphia. 1995: Easily won
the Dallas Reunion Pro-Am with the first of only two wireto-wire
performances on the circuit that year. His 54-hole
score of 13-under 197 was seven shots better than Dave
Stockton and Dave Eichelberger…Almost captured the
Emerald Coast Classic, but fell to Raymond Floyd in a playoff.
1994: Was the Champions Tour’s “ironman,” playing in
36 tournaments and 112 rounds…Defeated Bob Murphy at
the Doug Sanders Kingwood Celebrity Classic…Journeyed
across the pond and won the Senior British Open at Royal
Lytham & St. Annes in England. 1993: First Champions Tour
victory was memorable. Made a par on the second playoff
hole to defeat Bruce Crampton at the PGA Seniors’
Championship in just his sixth senior start. 1992: Initially
earned a conditional exemption with a 10th-place finish at
the Champions Tour National Qualifying Tournament. Shot
rounds of 69-66-77-74—286 and then made birdie on the
first playoff hole to earn his position.
OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Was the low club professional at the 1992 PGA
Championship at Bellerive CC (T28) and was the only sen-
CHAMPIONS TOUR MAJOR TOURNAMENT SUMMARY
Year 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05
Senior PGA Championship 1 T10 T30 T15 CUT T11 T39 74 T20 CUT T34 CUT CUT
Ford Senior Players T13 T10 T30 T16 T39 T41 T44 T12 T28 T12 T73 T22 T30
U.S. Senior Open T17 T4 T27 T35 T3 T43 6 T34 T59 T51 CUT CUT CUT
JELD-WEN Tradition T17 T9 T45 T37 T11 2 T28 T61 T19 T48 T42 T55 T65
CHAMPIONS TOUR YEAR-BY-YEAR STATISTICS (TOP 50 ON 2005 MONEY LIST)
Scoring Average Putting Average Greens in Regulation Driving Distance Driving Accuracy
1993 70.60 (11) 1.776 (9) 72.1 (8) 263.5 (13) 67.8 (T41)
1994 69.88 (5) 1.758 (9) 72.8 (T10) 263.9 (9) 71.9 (23)
1995 70.78 (14) 1.778 (12) 70.1 (17) 260.6 (22) 66.0 (55)
1996 71.48 (24) 1.795 (T18) 66.2 (32) 264.0 (36) 66.3 (T56)
1997 71.29 (T22) 1.808 (T44) 67.5 (19) 261.3 (44) 68.7 (38)
1998 71.55 (31) 1.788 (T25) 65.8 (T34) 260.4 (54) 69.1 (T44)
1999 71.44 (36) 1.786 (32) 65.3 (54) 269.6 (T24) 67.7 (T61)
2000 71.51 (T45) 1.785 (T35) 66.6 (T48) 266.8 (T41) 68.2 (59)
2001 72.12 (47) 1.807 (55) 64.1 (T55) 263.6 (T70) 69.1 (49)
2002 71.60 (T40) 1.763 (9) 65.3 (T53) 266.4 (52) 69.1 (40)
2003 71.60 (47) 1.787 (34) 65.4 (53) 271.0 (T46) 68.5 (42)
2004 72.70 (T62) 1.792 (33) 62.4 (65) 272.6 (37) 60.2 (73)
2005 71.92 (54) 1.800 (T44) 64.4 (62) 274.7 (40) 68.6 (T46)
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