Charles Schwab Cup Championship

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The Charles Schwab Cup Championship is the final event of the season on the U.S.-based PGA Tour Champions, the world's leading golf tour for male professionals aged 50 and above. Played in late October or early November each year, it is PGA Tour Champions' equivalent of the PGA Tour's Tour Championship, and was formerly known as the Senior Tour Championship. Like the Tour Championship, it has a small field (30 from 1990 through 2015, and 36 from 2016 forward) and no half-way cut.

Charles Schwab Cup Championship
Tournament information
LocationPhoenix, Arizona
Established1990
Course(s)Phoenix Country Club
Par71
Length6,763 yards (6,184 m)
Tour(s)PGA Tour Champions
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$3,000,000
Month playedNovember
Tournament record score
Aggregate257 Pádraig Harrington (2022)
To par−27 as above
Current champion
New Zealand Steven Alker
Location map
Phoenix CC is located in the United States
Phoenix CC
Phoenix CC
Location in the United States
Phoenix CC is located in Arizona
Phoenix CC
Phoenix CC
Location in Arizona

Through 2015, the top 30 money winners made up the field. Since 2016, 36 golfers have competed, and the event is the final stage of a three-tournament playoff similar to that used by the regular PGA Tour for its FedEx Cup.[1] Through 2015, the tournament had another distinction that made it unique on PGA Tour Champions – it was the only event, other than the tour's five majors, contested over four rounds. In 2016 and 2017, it returned to being held over three rounds. In 2018, it returns to being held over four rounds. Since 2013, the purse has been $2,500,000, with $440,000 going to the winner.

Tournament hosts

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Years Venue City
1990–1993 Hyatt Dorado Beach Dorado, Puerto Rico
1994–1999 The Dunes Golf and Beach Club Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
2000 TPC of Myrtle Beach Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
2001–2002 Gaillardia Golf and Country Club Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2003–2009 Sonoma Golf Club Sonoma, California
2010–2011, 2013 TPC Harding Park[2][3] San Francisco, California
2012, 2014–2016 Desert Mountain Club (Cochise Course)[4][1] Scottsdale, Arizona
2017–2023 Phoenix Country Club Phoenix, Arizona

Winners

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PGA Tour Champions (Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs) 2016–2019, 2021–
Champions Tour (Regular event/Regular season Tour Championship) 1990–2015, 2020
# Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Charles Schwab Cup Championship
34th 2023   Steven Alker 266 −18 1 stroke   Mike Weir
  Ernie Els
33rd 2022   Pádraig Harrington 257 −27 7 strokes   Alex Čejka
32nd 2021   Phil Mickelson 265 −19 1 stroke   Steven Alker
31st 2021   Kevin Sutherland (2) 198 −15 Playoff   Paul Broadhurst
30th 2019   Jeff Maggert 263 −21 Playoff   Retief Goosen
29th 2018   Vijay Singh 262 −22 4 strokes   Tim Petrovic
28th 2017   Kevin Sutherland 198 −15 1 stroke   Vijay Singh
27th 2016   Paul Goydos 195 −15 2 strokes   Bernhard Langer
26th 2015   Billy Andrade 266 −14 Playoff   Bernhard Langer
25th 2014   Tom Pernice Jr. 269 −11 Playoff   Jay Haas
24th 2013   Fred Couples 267 −17 6 strokes   Bernhard Langer
  Mark O'Meara
  Peter Senior
23rd 2012   Tom Lehman 258 −22 6 strokes   Jay Haas
22nd 2011   Jay Don Blake 276 −8 2 strokes   Michael Allen
  Mark Calcavecchia
  Jay Haas
  Loren Roberts
21st 2010   John Cook (2) 267 −17 2 strokes   Michael Allen
20th 2009   John Cook 266 −22 5 strokes   Russ Cochran
19th 2008   Andy Bean 268 −20 9 strokes   Gene Jones
18th 2007   Jim Thorpe (3) 268 −20 3 strokes   Fred Funk
  Denis Watson
17th 2006   Jim Thorpe (2) 271 −17 2 strokes   Tom Kite
16th 2005   Tom Watson (3) 272 −16 1 stroke   Jay Haas
15th 2004   Mark McNulty 277 −11 1 stroke   Tom Kite
14th 2003   Jim Thorpe 268 −20 3 strokes   Tom Watson
Senior Tour Championship
13th 2002   Tom Watson (2) 274 −14 1 stroke   Gil Morgan
12th 2001   Bob Gilder 277 −11 1 stroke   Doug Tewell
IR Senior Tour Championship
11th 2000   Tom Watson 270 −18 1 stroke   John Jacobs
Ingersoll-Rand Senior Tour Championship
10th 1999   Gary McCord 276 −12 1 stroke   Bruce Fleisher
  Larry Nelson
Energizer Senior Tour Championship
9th 1998   Hale Irwin 274 −14 5 strokes   Gil Morgan
8th 1997   Gil Morgan 272 −16 2 strokes   Hale Irwin
7th 1996   Jay Sigel 279 −9 2 strokes   Kermit Zarley
6th 1995   Jim Colbert 282 −6 1 stroke   Raymond Floyd
Golf Magazine Senior Tour Championship
5th 1994   Raymond Floyd (2) 273 −15 Playoff   Jim Albus
Hyatt Senior Tour Championship
4th 1993   Simon Hobday 199 −17 2 strokes   Raymond Floyd
  Larry Gilbert
Senior Tour Championship
3rd 1992   Raymond Floyd 197 −19 5 strokes   George Archer
  Dale Douglass
New York Life Champions
2nd 1991   Mike Hill (2) 202 −14 2 strokes   Jim Colbert
1st 1990   Mike Hill 201 −15 Playoff   Dale Douglass
  Lee Trevino

References

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  1. ^ a b "Champions Tour announces 2016 schedule and format for inaugural Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs" (Press release). PGA Tour. November 11, 2015. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  2. ^ "Harding Park to host future Tour events". Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
  3. ^ "Historic Harding Park Golf Course joins TPC network" (Press release). PGA Tour. November 3, 2010. Archived from the original on November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  4. ^ "Schwab Cup C'ship moving to Desert Mountain in 2012" (Press release). PGA Tour. October 13, 2011. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
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