Wendy's Champions Skins Game Explained

The Wendy's Champions Skins Game was an unofficial golf tournament on the Champions Tour. It was played annually in January/February in Maui, Hawaii at Kaanapali Golf Resort (Royal Kaanapali Golf Course). Wendy's was the main sponsor of the tournament. Before that, from 2001 through 2007, it was played at the Wailea Golf Club in Maui on their Gold Course.[1]

The tournament was founded in 1988 as the Senior Skins Game. It was played in a skins game format where each hole, and the money or "skin" associated with it, was won by one player only if they win that hole outright. If no player won the hole, the "skin" carried over to the next hole. From 1988 to 2005, it was played as an individual event with four players (five in 1991). Beginning in 2006, it was played as an alternate-shot two-man team event with four teams.

The tournament was discontinued in December 2011.[2] The purse for the final tournament in 2011 was US$770,000.

Winners

Team event (2006–2011)
YearWinnersRunners-up
Wendy's Champions Skins Game
2011 Bernhard Langer and Mark O'Meara
2010 Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller
2009 Greg Norman and Jay Haas
2008 Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson
2007 Gary Player and Jay Haas
2006 Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson
Individual event (1988–2005)
Year Winner Country Runner-up
Wendy's Champions Skins Game
2005 Craig Stadler
2004 Arnold Palmer
ConAgra Foods Champions Skins Game
2003 Hale Irwin
Senior Skins Game
2002 Jack Nicklaus
2001 Jack Nicklaus
2000 Tom Watson
1999 Raymond Floyd
1998 Hale Irwin
1997 Jack Nicklaus
1996 Jim Colbert
1995 Jack Nicklaus
1994 Arnold Palmer
1993 Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1992 Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1991 Lee Trevino
1990 Jack Nicklaus
1989 Gary Player
1988 Gary Player

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Golf's Most Legendary Players . Wailea Golf Club . January 21, 2023.
  2. News: Kaanapali officials: Champions Skins Game off for 2012 . . December 6, 2011 . January 1, 2015.