1999 Senior PGA Tour


The 1999 Senior PGA Tour was the 20th season since the Senior PGA Tour, now known as PGA Tour Champions, officially began in 1980. The season consisted of 38 official money events with purses totalling $48,900,000, including four majors. Bruce Fleisher won the most tournaments, seven. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1999 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 Senior PGA Tour debut are shown in italics.
DateTournamentLocationPurse WinnerScore1st prize
Jan 24MasterCard ChampionshipHawaii1,100,000 John Jacobs 203 185,000
Feb 7Royal Caribbean ClassicFlorida1,000,000 Bruce Fleisher 205 150,000
Feb 14American Express InvitationalFlorida1,200,000 Bruce Fleisher 203 180,000
Feb 21GTE ClassicFlorida1,200,000 Larry Nelson 205 180,000
Feb 28The ACE Group ClassicFlorida1,200,000 Allen Doyle 203 180,000
Mar 14Toshiba Senior ClassicCalifornia1,200,000 Gary McCord 204 180,000
Mar 28Emerald Coast ClassicFlorida1,100,000 Bob Duval 200 165,000
Apr 4The TraditionArizona1,500,000 Graham Marsh 136 225,000
Apr 18PGA Seniors' ChampionshipFlorida1,750,000 Allen Doyle 274 315,000
Apr 25The Home Depot InvitationalNorth Carolina1,200,000 Bruce Fleisher 205 180,000
May 2Bruno's Memorial ClassicAlabama1,200,000 Larry Nelson 205 180,000
May 9Nationwide ChampionshipGeorgia1,400,000 Hale Irwin 206 210,000
May 16Las Vegas Senior ClassicNevada1,400,000 Vicente Fernández 274 210,000
May 23Bell Atlantic ClassicPennsylvania1,100,000 Tom Jenkins 206 165,000
May 30Boone Valley ClassicMissouri1,400,000 Hale Irwin 203 210,000
Jun 6Cadillac NFL Golf ClassicNew Jersey1,100,000 Allen Doyle 202 165,000
Jun 13BellSouth Senior Classic at OprylandTennessee1,400,000 Bruce Fleisher 200 210,000
Jun 20Southwestern Bell DominionTexas1,100,000 John Mahaffey 204 165,000
Jun 27Ford Senior Players ChampionshipMichigan2,000,000 Hale Irwin 267 300,000
Jul 4State Farm Senior ClassicMaryland1,300,000 Christy O'Connor Jnr 198 195,000
Jul 11U.S. Senior OpenIowa1,500,000 Dave Eichelberger 281 315,000
Jul 18Ameritech Senior OpenIllinois1,300,000 Hale Irwin 206 195,000
Jul 25Coldwell Banker Burnet ClassicMinnesota1,500,000 Hale Irwin 201 225,000
Aug 1Novell Utah ShowdownUtah1,350,000 Dave Eichelberger 197 202,500
Aug 8Lightpath Long Island ClassicNew York1,200,000 Bruce Fleisher 206 180,000
Aug 15Foremost Insurance ChampionshipMichigan1,000,000 Christy O'Connor Jnr 205 150,000
Aug 22BankBoston ClassicMassachusetts1,200,000 Tom McGinnis 205 180,000
Aug 29AT&T Canada Senior Open ChampionshipCanada1,350,000 Jim Ahern 272 202,500
Sep 5TD Waterhouse ChampionshipMissouri1,200,000 Allen Doyle 198 180,000
Sep 12Comfort ClassicIndiana1,200,000 Gil Morgan 201 180,000
Sep 19Bank One ChampionshipTexas1,300,000 Tom Watson 196 195,000
Sep 26Kroger Senior ClassicOhio1,400,000 Gil Morgan 198 210,000
Oct 3Vantage ChampionshipNorth Carolina1,500,000 Fred Gibson 195 225,000
Oct 10The TransamericaCalifornia1,100,000 Bruce Fleisher 199 165,000
Oct 17Raley's Gold Rush ClassicCalifornia1,000,000 David Graham 199 150,000
Oct 24EMC Kaanapali ClassicHawaii1,000,000 Bruce Fleisher 199 150,000
Oct 31Pacific Bell Senior ClassicCalifornia1,200,000 Joe Inman 199 180,000
Nov 7Ingersoll-Rand Senior Tour ChampionshipSouth Carolina2,000,000 Gary McCord 276 347,000

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Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Bruce Fleisher69.19
2Hale Irwin69.58
3Gil Morgan69.69
4Tom Jenkins69.90
5Allen Doyle70.02

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Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Bruce Fleisher2,515,705327
2Hale Irwin2,025,232265
3Allen Doyle1,911,640314
4Larry Nelson1,513,524282
5Gil Morgan1,493,282272

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarningsWins
1Hale Irwin9,645,48525
2Jim Colbert8,887,83119
3Lee Trevino8,666,03028
4Dave Stockton8,104,78614
5Bob Charles8,001,71023

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Awards