2009 Champions Tour


The 2009 Champions Tour was the 30th season for the golf tour now known as PGA Tour Champions since it 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.
DateTournamentLocationPurse WinnerScore1st prize
Jan 25Mitsubishi Electric Championship at HualalaiHawaii1,800,000 Bernhard Langer 198 315,000
Feb 15Allianz ChampionshipFlorida1,700,000 Mike Goodes 201 255,000
Feb 22The ACE Group ClassicFlorida1,600,000 Loren Roberts 209 240,000
Mar 8Toshiba ClassicCalifornia1,700,000 Eduardo Romero 202 255,000
Mar 15AT&T Champions ClassicCalifornia1,600,000 Dan Forsman 205 240,000
Mar 29Cap Cana ChampionshipDominican Republic2,100,000 Keith Fergus 203 315,000
Apr 19Outback Steakhouse Pro-AmFlorida1,700,000 Nick Price 204 255,000
Apr 26Liberty Mutual Legends of GolfGeorgia2,600,000 Bernhard Langer &
Tom Lehman
189 225,000
May 17Regions Charity ClassicAlabama1,700,000 Keith Fergus 132 255,000
May 24Senior PGA ChampionshipOhio2,000,000 Michael Allen 274 360,000
May 31Principal Charity ClassicIowa1,725,000 Mark McNulty 203 258,750
Jun 7Triton Financial ClassicTexas1,600,000 Bernhard Langer 201 240,000
Jun 28Dick's Sporting Goods OpenNew York1,650,000 Lonnie Nielsen 195 247,500
Jul 123M ChampionshipMinnesota1,750,000 Bernhard Langer 200 262,500
Jul 26Senior British OpenEngland2,000,000 Loren Roberts 268 315,600
Aug 2U.S. Senior OpenIndiana2,600,000 Fred Funk 268 470,000
Aug 23JELD-WEN TraditionOregon2,700,000 Mike Reid 272 392,000
Aug 30Boeing ClassicWashington1,800,000 Loren Roberts 198 270,000
Sep 6Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble BeachCalifornia2,100,000 Jeff Sluman 206 315,000
Sep 20Greater Hickory Classic at Rock BarnNorth Carolina1,750,000 Jay Haas 198 262,500
Sep 27SAS ChampionshipNorth Carolina2,100,000 Tom Pernice, Jr. 203 315,000
Oct 4Constellation Energy Senior Players ChampionshipMaryland2,700,000 Jay Haas 267 405,000
Oct 18Administaff Small Business ClassicTexas1,700,000 John Cook 205 255,000
Oct 25AT&T ChampionshipTexas1,700,000 Phil Blackmar 203 255,000
Nov 1Charles Schwab Cup ChampionshipCalifornia2,500,000 John Cook 266 442,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Bernhard Langer68.92
2Jay Haas69.25
3Loren Roberts69.65
4Mark O'Meara69.69
5Tom Watson69.69

Source:
Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Bernhard Langer2,139,451204
2Loren Roberts1,960,613223
3John Cook1,798,664232
4Jay Haas1,758,395212
5Fred Funk1,563,810211

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Hale Irwin25,217,82645
2Gil Morgan19,600,90425
3Dana Quigley14,634,84111
4Bruce Fleisher14,406,86218
5Tom Kite13,727,37310

Source:

Awards