2005 Champions Tour


The 2005 Champions Tour was the 26th 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 28 official money events with purses totalling $51,200,000, including five majors. Hale Irwin won the most tournaments, four. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 2005 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.
DateTournamentLocationPurse WinnerScore1st prize
Jan 23MasterCard ChampionshipHawaii1,600,000 Dana Quigley 198 272,000
Jan 30Turtle Bay ChampionshipHawaii1,500,000 Hale Irwin 200 225,000
Feb 20The ACE Group ClassicFlorida1,600,000 Mark James 203 240,000
Feb 28Outback Steakhouse Pro-AmFlorida1,600,000 Hale Irwin 134 240,000
Mar 13SBC ClassicCalifornia1,550,000 Des Smyth 211 232,500
Mar 20Toshiba Senior ClassicCalifornia1,650,000 Mark Johnson 200 247,500
Apr 24Liberty Mutual Legends of GolfGeorgia2,250,000 Des Smyth 208 382,000
May 1FedEx Kinko's ClassicTexas1,650,000 Jim Thorpe 206 247,500
May 16Blue Angels ClassicFlorida1,500,000 Jim Thorpe 194 225,000
May 22Bruno's Memorial ClassicAlabama1,500,000 D. A. Weibring 201 225,000
May 29Senior PGA ChampionshipPennsylvania2,000,000 Mike Reid 280 360,000
Jun 5Allianz ChampionshipIowa1,500,000 Tom Jenkins 204 225,000
Jun 13Bayer Advantage ClassicKansas1,650,000 Dana Quigley 133 248,000
Jun 26Bank of America ChampionshipMassachusetts1,600,000 Mark McNulty 204 240,000
Jul 3Commerce Bank ChampionshipNew York1,500,000 Ron Streck 197 225,000
Jul 10Ford Senior Players ChampionshipMichigan2,500,000 Peter Jacobsen 273 375,000
Jul 24Senior British OpenScotland1,800,000 Tom Watson 280 274,099
Jul 31U.S. Senior OpenOhio2,600,000 Allen Doyle 274 470,000
Aug 73M ChampionshipMinnesota1,750,000 Tom Purtzer 201 262,500
Aug 21Boeing Greater Seattle ClassicWashington1,600,000 David Eger 199 240,000
Aug 28JELD-WEN TraditionOregon2,500,000 Loren Roberts 273 375,000
Sep 4Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble BeachCalifornia2,000,000 Hale Irwin 203 300,000
Sep 18Constellation Energy ClassicMaryland1,700,000 Bob Gilder 198 255,000
Oct 2SAS ChampionshipNorth Carolina1,900,000 Hale Irwin 203 285,000
Oct 9Greater Hickory Classic at Rock BarnNorth Carolina1,600,000 Jay Haas 200 240,000
Oct 16Administaff Small Business ClassicTexas1,600,000 Mark McNulty 200 240,000
Oct 23SBC ChampionshipTexas1,550,000 Jay Haas 199 232,500
Oct 30Charles Schwab Cup ChampionshipCalifornia2,500,000 Tom Watson 272 440,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Mark McNulty
69.41
2Dana Quigley69.64
3Craig Stadler69.65
4Morris Hatalsky69.68
5D. A. Weibring69.84

Source:
Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Dana Quigley2,170,258272
2Hale Irwin1,983,596224
3Mark McNulty
1,791,452232
4D. A. Weibring1,550,030251
5Tom Watson1,532,482132

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Hale Irwin22,576,56144
2Gil Morgan15,683,42223
3Bruce Fleisher12,825,90918
4Larry Nelson12,373,80519
5Dana Quigley12,333,49110

Source:

Awards