2008 Champions Tour


The 2008 Champions Tour was the 29th 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 29 official money events with purses totalling $55,625,000, including five majors. Bernhard Langer and Eduardo Romero won the most tournaments, three. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 2008 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 20MasterCard Championship at HualalaiHawaii1,800,000 Fred Funk 195 300,000
Jan 27Turtle Bay ChampionshipHawaii1,600,000 Jerry Pate 211 240,000
Feb 10Allianz ChampionshipFlorida1,650,000 Scott Hoch 202 247,500
Feb 17The ACE Group ClassicFlorida1,600,000 Scott Hoch 202 240,000
Mar 9Toshiba ClassicCalifornia1,700,000 Bernhard Langer 199 255,000
Mar 16AT&T Champions ClassicCalifornia1,600,000 Denis Watson 209 240,000
Mar 30Ginn Championship Hammock Beach ResortFlorida2,500,000 Bernhard Langer 204 375,000
Apr 6Cap Cana ChampionshipDominican Republic2,000,000 Mark Wiebe 202 300,000
Apr 20Outback Steakhouse Pro-AmFlorida1,700,000 Tom Watson 204 255,000
Apr 27Liberty Mutual Legends of GolfGeorgia2,600,000 Andy North &
Tom Watson 		185 225,000
May 4FedEx Kinko's ClassicTexas1,600,000 Denis Watson 206 240,000
May 18Regions Charity ClassicAlabama1,700,000 Andy Bean 203 255,000
May 25Senior PGA ChampionshipNew York2,000,000 Jay Haas 287 360,000
Jun 1The Principal Charity ClassicIowa1,725,000 Jay Haas 203 258,750
Jun 22Bank of America ChampionshipMassachusetts1,650,000 Jeff Sluman 199 247,500
Jun 29Commerce Bank ChampionshipNew York1,600,000 Loren Roberts 201 240,000
Jul 6Dick's Sporting Goods OpenNew York1,600,000 Eduardo Romero 199 240,000
Jul 203M ChampionshipMinnesota1,750,000 R.W. Eaks 193 262,500
Jul 27Senior British Open ChampionshipScotland2,000,000 Bruce Vaughan 278 315,600
Aug 3U.S. Senior OpenColorado2,600,000 Eduardo Romero 274 470,000
Aug 17JELD-WEN TraditionOregon2,600,000 Fred Funk 269 392,000
Aug 24Boeing ClassicWashington1,700,000 Tom Kite 202 255,000
Aug 31Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble BeachCalifornia2,100,000 Jeff Sluman 202 315,000
Sep 14Greater Hickory Classic at Rock BarnNorth Carolina1,700,000 R.W. Eaks 200 255,000
Sep 28SAS ChampionshipNorth Carolina2,100,000 Eduardo Romero 201 315,000
Oct 12Constellation Energy Senior Players ChampionshipMaryland2,600,000 D. A. Weibring 271 390,000
Oct 19Administaff Small Business ClassicTexas1,700,000 Bernhard Langer 204 255,000
Oct 26AT&T ChampionshipTexas1,650,000 John Cook 197 247,500
Nov 2Charles Schwab Cup ChampionshipCalifornia2,500,000 Andy Bean 268 442,000

Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Bernhard Langer69.65
2Jay Haas69.66
3Loren Roberts69.69
4Nick Price69.71
5Fred Funk69.73

Source:
Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Bernhard Langer2,035,073203
2Jay Haas1,991,726212
3Fred Funk1,825,931182
4Jeff Sluman1,728,443262
5John Cook1,721,038261

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarningsWins
1Hale Irwin24,920,66545
2Gil Morgan18,964,04025
3Dana Quigley14,406,26911
4Bruce Fleisher13,990,35618
5Larry Nelson13,262,80819

Source:

Awards