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CHAMPIONS TOUR NOTES•No player has defended his title so far this year. The best finish by a defending champion thus far is a T8 by BruceVaughan (Senior British Open).•With his victory at the Triton Financial Classic, Bernhard Langer is the only player to go wire-to-wire in a ChampionsTour event in 2009. There were two wire-to-wire winners in the first 16 events in 2008. Mark Wiebe went wire-to-wireat the inaugural Cap Cana Championship and then Tom Watson/Andy North led start to finish at the Liberty MutualLegends of Golf.•Gary Player, Jim Colbert and Bob Charles are the only three players to match or better their age in 2009. The 73-year-old Player has bettered his age five times and matched it once, while Colbert has bettered his age once andmatched it once. Charles bettered his age in the opening round of the Senior British Open. Player earned thedistinction of doing it in all three rounds at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.•R.W. Eaks and Jay Haas have both recorded double eagles this year. Eaks had his in the opening round of theMitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai (driver, 5-wood), 246 yards, No. 7), while Haas accomplished the feat inthe second round of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, using a driver, 3-wood from 272 yards on No. 11 at theWestin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa. In 2008, both John Cook and Bobby Wadkins had double-eagles in thefirst half of the year.•In the final round of the Senior British Open at Sunningdale, Curt Byrum made three eagles. It marked only the fifthtime in Champions Tour history that a player recorded three eagles in a round and was the first time since BruceLietzke at the 2003 MasterCard Championship at Hualalai..•Four of 16 events have been decided by playoffs. At the AT&T Champions Classic, Dan Forsman defeated Don Pooleywith the birdie-4 on the first extra hole, while at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, Bernhard Langer and TomLehman defeated Jeff Sluman and Craig Stadler with a par-4 on the second extra hole. The third playoff was in Iowaat The Principal Charity Classic. Mark McNulty defeated Fred Funk with birdie-3 on the fourth extra hole after NickPrice was eliminated on second extra hole with a par. At the Senior British Open, Loren Roberts defeated MarkMcNulty with a par on the third extra hole after Fred Funk was eliminated on the first extra hole.•Bob Gilder and Bernhard Langer both set new course records this year. Gilder fired a third-round 63 at the TPCTreviso Bay, site of The ACE Group Classic, and Langer’s final-round 64 at the Punta Espada Golf Club at The CapCana Championship set a new mark.•So far in 2009, four players all survived a double-bogey or more but still claimed their titles. Nick Price’s final-roundscorecard included three double-bogeys, but the World Golf Hall of Fame member survived those and another bogeyto win the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am for his first career win on the Champions Tour. Dan Forsman, Keith Fergusand Lonnie Nielsen also had a double-bogey on their scorecards but went on to win the AT&T Champions Classic. TheCap Cana Championship and the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, respectively.•Lonnie Nielsen’s 24 birdies at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open are the most by a player this year in a 54-hole event.Bernhard Langer had 23 at the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.Fred Funk’s 24 birdies atthe U.S. Senior Open at Crooked Stick were the most in a 72-hole event on the 2009 Champions Tour.•Tom Kite made birdie or better (nine birdies, one eagle) on 10 straight par-5s at the Mitsubishi Electric Championshipat Hualalai in January.•Five players (Don Pooley, Michael Turner, Roger Cameron, Chip Beck, Kirk Hanefeld) have all made holes-in-one sofar this year on the Champions Tour. Beck’s ace at the Senior PGA Championship made him one of just three players(Jim Thorpe, Dave Barr) to have recorded an ace on all three Tours.54
CHAMPIONS TOUR NOTES•The longest birdie streak so far in 2009 has been six straight by Mark James in the opening round of the AllianzChampionship. Lonnie Nielsen opened the final round of the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open with a two birdies, an eagleand two more birdies, the best birdie-eagle streak on the Champions Tour in 2009.•Gene Jones and Keith Fergus both have eight eagles this year, the most on the 2009 Champions Tour. Jay Haas isthe current leader in birdies with 194, 10 more than Andy Bean.•Six players have played in all 16 events so far this season. The group includes Denis Watson, Mark Wiebe, Tom Kite,Jeff Sluman, Lonnie Nielsen and Tom Purtzer.•Michael Allen made the biggest move of any of the 16 tournament winners this year. During the Senior PGAChampionship, Allen was T73 after the opening round, eight strokes behind the leaders. Allen jumped to T11 after thesecond round and eventually seized the lead after 54 holes and went on to a two-stroke win at Canterbury nearCleveland.•Although Bob Gilder was ineligible for the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai ending hisstring of consecutive starts at 122, he still owns the longest current streak for consecutive starts for which he waseligible at 137.•A number of Champions Tour players and future players have fared well when testing their game in PGATOUR/European Tour events. Tom Watson lost in a playoff to Stewart Cink at the British Open and Jeff Sluman wasT18 at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. At the Masters, Sandy Lyle was T20 and Larry Mize finished T30 atthe event. Tom Lehman, who teamed with Bernhard Langer to win at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, was the 54-hole leader at the Transitions Championship before finishing T8. Fred Couples, who will join the Champions Tour laterthis year when he turns 50, owns three top-10 finishes, including T3s at the Northern Trust Open and the ShellHouston Open. Bernhard Langer was the 54-hole leader at the BMW International in Munich and eventually finishedT9.•Among the former PGA TOUR winners that made their Champions Tour debuts this year are Russ Cochran, Jay DonBlake, Tom Lehman, Bob Tway and Olin Browne. Among those eligible later in the year are Tom Pernice, Jr. (Sept. 5),Tommy Armour III (Oct. 8), David Frost (Sept. 11) and Fred Couples (Oct. 3).•Champions Tour pro-am fields this year have included a number of well-known sports and entertainment celebrities.Among those competitors were Michael J. Fox,, Bo Jackson, Cornelius Bennett, Phil Niekro , Emmitt Smith, MarkWahlberg, Steve Spurrier, Nick Saban, Bill Murray, Jeff Fisher, Vinny Testaverde, Jeff Lebo, George Lopez, StonePhillips, Bart Starr, Joe Theisman, Vince Gill, Reuben Studdard, Al Del Greco, Jesse Ventura, Neal Broten, Paul Molitor,Taylor Hicks, Pat Sullivan, Bobby Johnson, Charles Barkley as well as former Heisman Trophy winners George Rogers,Mike Rozier, Doug Flutie, Andre Ware, Ty Detmer, Gino Torretta, Chris Weinke, Eric Crouch and Tim Brown.55
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