2004 Champions Tour


The 2004 Champions Tour was the 25th season for the golf tour now known as PGA Tour Champions since it officially began in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour. The season consisted of 30 official money events with purses totalling $53,932,400, including five majors. Craig Stadler won the most tournaments, five. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 2004 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 Champions Tour debut are shown in italics.
DateTournamentLocationPurse WinnerScore1st prize
Jan 25MasterCard ChampionshipHawaii1,600,000 Fuzzy Zoeller 196 268,000
Feb 8Royal Caribbean Golf ClassicFlorida1,450,000 Bruce Fleisher 210 217,500
Feb 15The ACE Group ClassicFlorida1,600,000 Craig Stadler 206 240,000
Feb 22Outback Steakhouse Pro-AmFlorida1,600,000 Mark McNulty 200 241,000
Mar 7MasterCard ClassicMexico2,000,000 Ed Fiori 210 300,000
Mar 14SBC ClassicCalifornia1,500,000 Gil Morgan 202 225,000
Mar 21Toshiba Senior ClassicCalifornia1,600,000 Tom Purtzer 198 240,000
Apr 18Blue Angels ClassicFlorida1,500,000 Tom Jenkins 196 225,500
Apr 25Liberty Mutual Legends of GolfGeorgia3,100,000 Hale Irwin 205 364,000
May 2Bruno's Memorial ClassicAlabama1,500,000 Bruce Fleisher 200 225,000
May 9FedEx Kinko's ClassicTexas1,600,000 Larry Nelson 209 240,000
May 23Allianz ChampionshipIowa1,500,000 D. A. Weibring 204 225,000
May 31Senior PGA ChampionshipKentucky2,000,000 Hale Irwin 276 360,000
Jun 6Farmers Charity ClassicMichigan1,600,000 Jim Thorpe 203 240,000
Jun 13Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-AmMissouri1,650,000 Allen Doyle 131 247,500
Jun 27Bank of America ChampionshipMassachusetts1,550,000 Craig Stadler 201 232,500
Jul 4Commerce Bank Long Island ClassicNew York1,500,000 Jim Thorpe 201 225,000
Jul 11Ford Senior Players ChampionshipMichigan2,500,000 Mark James 275 375,000
Jul 25Senior British OpenNorthern Ireland1,832,400 Pete Oakley 284 289,153
Aug 1U.S. Senior OpenMissouri2,600,000 Peter Jacobsen 272 470,000
Aug 83M ChampionshipMinnesota1,750,000 Tom Kite 203 262,500
Aug 22Greater Hickory Classic at Rock BarnNorth Carolina1,600,000 Doug Tewell 202 240,000
Aug 29JELD-WEN TraditionOregon2,300,000 Craig Stadler 275 345,000
Sep 5The First Tee Open at Pebble BeachCalifornia2,000,000 Craig Stadler 201 300,000
Sep 12Kroger ClassicOhio1,500,000 Bruce Summerhays 201 225,000
Sep 26SAS ChampionshipNorth Carolina1,800,000 Craig Stadler 199 270,000
Oct 3Constellation Energy ClassicMaryland1,600,000 Wayne Levi 200 240,000
Oct 10Administaff Small Business ClassicTexas1,600,000 Larry Nelson 202 240,000
Oct 17SBC ChampionshipTexas1,500,000 Mark McNulty 195 240,000
Oct 24Charles Schwab Cup ChampionshipCalifornia2,500,000 Mark McNulty 277 440,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Craig Stadler69.30
2Hale Irwin69.58
3Gil Morgan69.76
4Tom Kite69.98
5Mark McNulty
70.03

Source:
Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Craig Stadler2,306,066215
2Hale Irwin2,035,397232
3Tom Kite1,831,211271
4Gil Morgan1,606,453261
5Bruce Fleisher1,537,571282

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Hale Irwin20,592,96540
2Gil Morgan14,319,25223
3Larry Nelson12,023,81919
4Bruce Fleisher12,005,34418
5Jim Colbert11,310,74020

Source:

Awards