Golf Betting - The Senior PGA Championship
History - Winners - Prizes
Founded in 1937, the first event was played at Augusta National Golf Club. In men’s golf it is one of the major championships and it is administered by the Professional Golfer’s Association of America. It is known as a major championship by both the Champions Tour and the European Seniors Tour. According to the history the tournament was played twice in 1979 and 1984, and there were no tournaments in 1939, 1943, 1944, 1983, and 1985.
The Championship had a highly growth of success because of the 1978 tournament, the Legends of Golf which featured competition between two-member teams of some of the greatest older golfers of that day. This tournament has its own policies; the lower age limit is 50, which is the standard on the men’s senior professional golf tournaments.
To compete in the Senior PGA tournament players need to be part of an eligibility process, which has to meet the following different requirements:
- A one-time exemption for those who have just turned 50 and have won a tour event in the last 5 years
- The top 30 on the Champions Tour career money list
- The top 15 finishers in the previous year's Senior PGA Championship
- The top 50 on the Champions Tour money list (previous year & current year)
- Any winner of a Champions Tour event between the span of the last Senior PGA Championship
- The top 35 finishers from the Callaway Golf PGA Senior Club Professional Championship
- Any winner of the previous 5 US Seniors Open
- Any past winner of the Senior PGA Championship
- Any past winner of a major championship
- Any past member of the United States Ryder Cup team
- The top eight players from the previous year's European Seniors Cup Order of Merit
- The top four players from the previous year's Japanese Seniors Tour Order of Merit
- A one-time exemption for former PGA Club Professional Champions turning 50
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