2013 Champions Tour


The 2013 Champions Tour was the 34th 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 26 official money events with purses totaling $50,750,000, including five majors. Bernhard Langer topped the end-of-season money list, winning $2,448,428. This was his second straight money title and fifth overall. Kenny Perry won the most tournaments, three. Fred Couples led the tour in scoring average for the second straight year and third time overall. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 2013 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 WinnerScoreWinner's
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Jan 20Mitsubishi Electric Championship at HualalaiHawaii1,800,000 John Cook 199 309,000
Feb 10Allianz ChampionshipFlorida1,800,000 Rocco Mediate 199 270,000
Feb 17ACE Group ClassicFlorida1,600,000 Bernhard Langer 204 240,000
Mar 17Toshiba ClassicCalifornia1,750,000 David Frost 194 262,500
Mar 24Mississippi Gulf Resort ClassicMississippi1,600,000 Michael Allen 205 240,000
Apr 21Greater Gwinnett ChampionshipGeorgia1,800,000 Bernhard Langer 206 270,000
Apr 28Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of GolfGeorgia2,700,000 Brad Faxon &
Jeff Sluman
193 230,000
each
May 5Insperity ChampionshipTexas1,800,000 Esteban Toledo 210 270,000
May 26Senior PGA ChampionshipMissouri2,100,000 Kōki Idoki 273 378,000
Jun 2Principal Charity ClassicIowa1,750,000 Russ Cochran 205 262,500
Jun 9Regions TraditionAlabama2,200,000 David Frost 272 335,000
Jun 23Encompass ChampionshipIllinois1,800,000 Craig Stadler 203 270,000
Jun 30Constellation Senior Players ChampionshipPennsylvania2,700,000 Kenny Perry 261 405,000
Jul 14U.S. Senior OpenNebraska2,750,000 Kenny Perry 267 500,000
Jul 29The Senior Open ChampionshipEngland2,000,000 Mark Wiebe 271 392,000
Aug 43M ChampionshipMinnesota1,750,000 Tom Pernice, Jr. 199 262,500
Aug 18Dick's Sporting Goods OpenNew York1,800,000 Bart Bryant 200 270,000
Aug 25Boeing ClassicWashington2,000,000 John Riegger 201 300,000
Sep 1Shaw Charity ClassicAlberta, Canada2,000,000 Rocco Mediate 191 300,000
Sep 8Montreal ChampionshipQuebec, Canada1,600,000 Esteban Toledo 211 240,000
Sep 22Pacific Links Hawai'i ChampionshipHawaii1,800,000 Mark Wiebe 205 270,000
Sep 29Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble BeachCalifornia1,800,000 Kirk Triplett 205 270,000
Oct 13SAS ChampionshipNorth Carolina2,100,000 Russ Cochran 199 315,000
Oct 20Greater Hickory Kia Classic at Rock BarnNorth Carolina1,600,000 Michael Allen 197 240,000
Oct 27AT&T ChampionshipTexas1,900,000 Kenny Perry 203 285,000
Nov 3Charles Schwab Cup ChampionshipCalifornia2,500,000 Fred Couples 267 440,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Fred Couples68.64
2Bernhard Langer68.92
3Kenny Perry69.21
4David Frost69.49
5Tom Lehman69.58

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Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Bernhard Langer2,448,428242
2Kenny Perry2,241,188203
3David Frost1,817,234252
4Fred Couples1,706,812151
5Russ Cochran1,458,583232

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Hale Irwin26,751,03645
2Gil Morgan20,375,20425
3Tom Kite15,836,65110
4Dana Quigley14,847,28611
5Bruce Fleisher14,836,38618

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Awards