2003 Champions Tour


The 2003 Champions Tour was the 24th season for the golf tour now known as PGA Tour Champions. The tour, officially founded in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour, adopted the "Champions Tour" name starting with this season, and used that name through its 2015 season.
The 2003 season consisted of 31 official money events with purses totaling $53,600,000. For the first time, the Senior British Open was recognized as a Champions Tour major, bringing the list of senior majors to its current total of five. Craig Stadler won the most tournaments, three. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 2003 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.
DateTournamentLocationPurse WinnerScore1st prize
Feb 2MasterCard ChampionshipHawaii1,500,000 Dana Quigley 198 250,000
Feb 9Royal Caribbean Golf ClassicFlorida1,450,000 Dave Barr 207 217,500
Feb 16ACE Group ClassicFlorida1,600,000 Vicente Fernández 202 240,000
Feb 23Verizon ClassicFlorida1,600,000 Bruce Fleisher 205 240,000
Mar 9MasterCard ClassicMexico2,000,000 David Eger 204 300,000
Mar 16SBC ClassicCalifornia1,500,000 Tom Purtzer 135 225,000
Mar 23Toshiba Senior ClassicCalifornia1,550,000 Rodger Davis 197 232,500
Apr 20Emerald Coast ClassicFlorida1,450,000 Bob Gilder 193 217,500
Apr 27Liberty Mutual Legends of GolfGeorgia3,000,000 Bruce Lietzke 206 354,000
May 4Bruno's Memorial ClassicAlabama1,400,000 Tom Jenkins 200 210,000
May 11Kinko's Classic of AustinTexas1,600,000 Hale Irwin 208 240,000
May 18Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-AmMissouri1,600,000 Jay Sigel 205 240,000
May 25Columbus Southern OpenGeorgia1,500,000 Morris Hatalsky 198 225,000
Jun 1Music City Championship at Gaylord OprylandTennessee1,400,000 Jim Ahern 196 210,000
Jun 8Senior PGA ChampionshipPennsylvania2,000,000 John Jacobs 276 360,000
Jun 22Farmers Charity ClassicMichigan1,500,000 Doug Tewell 201 225,000
Jun 29U.S. Senior OpenOhio2,600,000 Bruce Lietzke 207 470,000
Jul 13Ford Senior Players ChampionshipMichigan2,500,000 Craig Stadler 271 375,000
Jul 27Senior British OpenScotland1,600,000 Tom Watson 263 255,730
Aug 3FleetBoston ClassicMassachusetts1,500,000 Allen Doyle 198 225,000
Aug 103M ChampionshipMinnesota1,750,000 Wayne Levi 205 262,500
Aug 17Long Island ClassicNew York1,500,000 Jim Thorpe 195 225,000
Aug 24Allianz ChampionshipIowa1,500,000 Don Pooley 200 225,000
Aug 31JELD-WEN TraditionOregon2,200,000 Tom Watson 273 330,000
Sep 7Kroger ClassicOhio1,500,000 Gil Morgan 200 225,000
Sep 14Constellation Energy ClassicMaryland1,500,000 Larry Nelson 207 225,000
Sep 21SAS ChampionshipNorth Carolina1,800,000 D. A. Weibring 203 270,000
Sep 28Greater Hickory Classic at Rock BarnNorth Carolina1,500,000 Craig Stadler 201 225,000
Oct 12Turtle Bay ChampionshipHawaii1,500,000 Hale Irwin 208 225,000
Oct 19SBC ChampionshipTexas1,500,000 Craig Stadler 198 225,000
Oct 26Charles Schwab Cup ChampionshipCalifornia2,500,000 Jim Thorpe 268 440,000

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Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Tom Watson68.81
2Craig Stadler69.38
3Hale Irwin69.59
4D. A. Weibring69.70
5Gil Morgan69.71

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Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Tom Watson1,853,108142
2Jim Thorpe1,830,306302
3Gil Morgan1,620,206251
4Bruce Lietzke1,610,826222
5Hale Irwin1,607,391222

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Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Hale Irwin18,557,56838
2Gil Morgan12,712,79922
3Jim Colbert11,184,38420
4Larry Nelson10,595,59517
5Bruce Fleisher10,467,77216

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Awards