Charles Schwab Cup Championship Explained

Charles Schwab Cup Championship
Location:Phoenix, Arizona
Establishment:1990
Course:Phoenix Country Club
Par:71
Tour:PGA Tour Champions
Format:Stroke play
Month Played:November
Aggregate:257 Pádraig Harrington (2022)
To-Par:−27 as above
Current Champion: Steven Alker
Map:USA#USA Arizona
Map Label:Phoenix CC
Map Relief:yes
Map Size:200
Coordinates:33.4816°N -112.0636°W

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.

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

YearsVenueCity
1990–1993 Hyatt Dorado Beach Dorado, Puerto Rico
1994–1999 The Dunes Golf and Beach Club Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
2000 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] Scottsdale, Arizona
2017–2023 Phoenix, Arizona

Winners

PGA Tour Champions (Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs) 2016–2019, 2021–
Champions Tour (Regular event/Regular season Tour Championship) 1990–2015, 2020
YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Charles Schwab Cup Championship
34th266 −18 1 stroke Mike Weir
Ernie Els
33rd257 −27 7 strokes Alex Čejka
32nd265 −19 1 stroke Steven Alker
31st Kevin Sutherland (2) 198 −15 Playoff Paul Broadhurst
30th263 −21 Playoff Retief Goosen
29th262 −22 4 strokes Tim Petrovic
28th198 −15 1 stroke Vijay Singh
27th195 −15 2 strokes Bernhard Langer
26th266 −14 Playoff Bernhard Langer
25th269 −11 Playoff Jay Haas
24th267 −17 6 strokes Bernhard Langer
Mark O'Meara
Peter Senior
23rd258 −22 6 strokes Jay Haas
22nd276 −8 2 strokes Michael Allen
Mark Calcavecchia
Jay Haas
Loren Roberts
21st John Cook (2) 267 −17 2 strokes Michael Allen
20th266 −22 5 strokes Russ Cochran
19th268 −20 9 strokes Gene Jones
18th Jim Thorpe (3) 268 −20 3 strokes Fred Funk
Denis Watson
17th Jim Thorpe (2) 271 −17 2 strokes Tom Kite
16th Tom Watson (3) 272 −16 1 stroke Jay Haas
15th277 −11 1 stroke Tom Kite
14th268 −20 3 strokes Tom Watson
Senior Tour Championship
13th Tom Watson (2) 274 −14 1 stroke Gil Morgan
12th277 −11 1 stroke Doug Tewell
IR Senior Tour Championship
11th270 −18 1 stroke John Jacobs
Ingersoll-Rand Senior Tour Championship
10th276 −12 1 stroke Bruce Fleisher
Larry Nelson
Energizer Senior Tour Championship
9th274 −14 5 strokes Gil Morgan
8th272 −16 2 strokes Hale Irwin
7th279 −9 2 strokes Kermit Zarley
6th282 −6 1 stroke Raymond Floyd
Golf Magazine Senior Tour Championship
5th Raymond Floyd (2) 273 −15 Playoff Jim Albus
Hyatt Senior Tour Championship
4th199 −17 2 strokes Raymond Floyd
Larry Gilbert
Senior Tour Championship
3rd197 −19 5 strokes George Archer
Dale Douglass
New York Life Champions
2nd Mike Hill (2) 202 −14 2 strokes Jim Colbert
1st201 −15 Playoff Dale Douglass
Lee Trevino

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Champions Tour announces 2016 schedule and format for inaugural Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs . PGA Tour . November 11, 2015 . April 23, 2016.
  2. Web site: Harding Park to host future Tour events . 2009-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604120112/http://www.pgatour.com/2007/r/02/27/harding_release/ . 2011-06-04 . dead .
  3. Historic Harding Park Golf Course joins TPC network . PGA Tour . November 3, 2010 . November 4, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101107181345/http://www.pgatour.com/2010/company/11/03/tpchardingpark/index.html . November 7, 2010 . dead .
  4. Schwab Cup C'ship moving to Desert Mountain in 2012 . PGA Tour . October 13, 2011 . July 15, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121018125737/http://www.pgatour.com/2011/s/10/13/schwabcup-desertmountain/index.html . October 18, 2012 . dead .