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Historical Highlights of the Champions Tour (cont.)
European-born player to win a Champions Tour major championship after his
victory at the Ford Senior Players Championship. June 27 — Craig Stadler
claims the Bank of America Championship and a short time later, his son
Kevin wins the Lake Erie Charity Classic. They become the second father-son
duo to win PGA TOUR events the same day. Bob Duval and David Duval were
the first in 1999. July 24 — Graham Marsh becomes the first Champions
Tour player to make two holes-in-one on the same hole in the same
tournament when he aces No. 11 in the third round at the Royal Portrush
Golf Club in the Senior British Open. Marsh also does so in the opening
round. July 25 — Pete Oakley becomes the first open qualifier since Don
Pooley at the 2001 U.S. Senior Open to win a Champions Tour event and the
10th overall open qualifier to win in the history of the circuit when he wins
Senior British Open. July 29 — Three players—John Aubrey, Mike
McCullough and Pat Tallent—all make a hole-in-one in the same round, the
most in one round on the Champions Tour. September 27 — The
Champions Tour commemorates its 25th season with a one-day pro-am at
the site of its inaugural event at the Atlantic City Country Club. October 24
— Hale Irwin wins his second Charles Schwab Cup and the $1-million
annuity in the closest race in the four-year history of the competition. Irwin
defeats Craig Stadler by 39 points.
2005
January 30 — Hale Irwin becomes the first player in professional golf to
win the same event five straight years and the same tournament six times
overall when he cruises to a five-stroke victory over Dana Quigley at the
Turtle Bay Championship in Hawaii. February 28 — Hale Irwin wins the
rain-shortened Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am near Tampa and extends to 11,
his record streak of years with multiple victories. The event is pushed into a
Monday finish by heavy rain on the weekend and Irwin overtakes Morris
Hatalsky and defending champion Mark McNulty to become the oldest
winner of multiple events in the same season. May 14 — Craig Stadler ties
the Champions Tour all-time scoring record by shooting a 10-under 60 at The
Moors during the second round of the Blue Angels Classic. May 15 —
Champions Tour players set an all-time record for lowest scoring average at
an event, 68.175, on the par-70 Moors layout at the Blue Angels Classic.
May 20 — Dana Quigley’s makes eight birdies in a row en route to an
opening-round 65 at the Bruno’s Memorial Classic. He equals the all-time
best birdie streak in Champions Tour history and becomes the first player
since Jim Colbert (2000 TD Waterhouse Championship) to record eight
straight birdies in a round. May 26 — J.C. Snead makes his 1,000th
combined-career start, becoming just the seventh player to have competed
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in at least 1,000 official Tour events. May 29 — Mike Reid posts four
consecutive rounds of 70 and wins his first major title at the Senior PGA
Championship in a playoff with Dana Quigley and Jerry Pate. Reid becomes
the first player since Miller Barber at the 1982 Suntree Classic (66-66-66-66)
to win after shooting the same score each day over 72 holes. June 3 —
Dale Douglass makes his 1,000th combined-career start, becoming just the
eighth player to have competed in at least 1,000 official Tour events. July 3
— Ron Streck holds off Jim Ahern to win the Commerce Bank Championship
on Long Island. Streck, a two-time champion on the PGA TOUR and winner
of the 1993 Yuma Open on the Nationwide Tour, becomes the first player to
claim a title on all three Tours. July 10 — Peter Jacobsen, the 2004 U.S.
Senior Open champion, collects his second win on the Champions Tour at
the Ford Senior Players Championship, outlasting Hale Irwin by one stroke.
Jacobsen joins Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus as the third player whose
first two victories came in senior majors. July 19 — Citing a sore right hip
and travel complications, Dana Quigley withdraws from the Senior British
Open, ending his all-time record streaks of consecutive events played at 264
straight and consecutive events played that he was eligible for at 278 in a
row. July 24 — World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman debuts on the
Champions Tour at the Senior British Open and finishes third at Royal
Aberdeen in Scotland. July 31 — Allen Doyle shoots a final-round 63 and
comes from nine strokes back to win the U.S. Senior Open. Doyle’s
comeback was the largest in a senior major championship. October 2 —
Two weeks after claiming the Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach,
Hale Irwin surges to victory at the SAS Championship and becomes the first
player to claim multiple titles in a season after turning 60. The win near
Raleigh is Irwin’s fourth of the year and his 44th career title on the
Champions Tour. October 23 — Two weeks after ending a long victory
drought at the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn, Jay Haas outduels Dana
Quigley for the SBC Championship title in San Antonio. A two-time winner
on the PGA TOUR at Oak Hills Country Club, Haas becomes the 12th
different player (13th time) to claim PGA TOUR/Champions Tour titles at the
same venue. October 30 — Tom Watson uses a final-round 8-under 64 to
come from six strokes back and overtake Jay Haas for the Charles Schwab
Cup Championship. Watson’s victory earns him 1,320 Charles Schwab Cup
points and allows him to jump over four players, including pre-tourney
leader Dana Quigley, and earn his second Charles Schwab Cup in three
years. December 6 — Dana Quigley is voted the Champions Tour’s Player
of the Year. The 58 year-old Quigley becomes the oldest ever to earn the
Jack Nicklaus Trophy, signifying the circuit’s top player.
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