The 2010 Champions Tour was the 31st season for the golf tour now known as
PGA Tour Champions
PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour) is a men's professional senior golf tour, administered as a branch of the PGA Tour.
History and format
The Senior PGA Championship, founded in 1937, was for many years ...
since it officially began in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour. The season consisted of 26 official money events with purses totalling
$51,475,000, including five
majors
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Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer (; born 27 August 1957) is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1986, he became the sport's first official number one ra ...
topped the end-of-season money list for an unprecedented third consecutive year, winning $2,648,939, and also won the most tournaments, five.
Fred Couples
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had a spectacularly successful rookie season. He finished second in the first tournament he entered, followed by wins in his next three events. Couples finished the season with four wins, was second to Langer on the money list, and set a tour record for lowest scoring average (67.96). The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.
Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 2010 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. No golfer won on his Champions Tour debut this season.
Leaders
Scoring Average leaders
Source:
Money List leaders
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Career Money List leaders
Source:
Awards
See also
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Champions Tour awards
Listed below are recipients of awards for various achievements on PGA Tour Champions, a circuit operated by the U.S.-based PGA Tour for men's golfers aged 50 and over. The tour began in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour, changed its name to the Champions ...
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Champions Tour records These are achievements of play on PGA Tour Champions.
Individual scoring records
Stroke totals
*72 holes
:257 – Pádraig Harrington, 2022 Charles Schwab Cup Championship
*54 holes
:191 – Bruce Fleisher, 2002 RJR Championship
:191 – Loren Rob ...
References
External links
PGA Tour Champions official site
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Champions Tour
PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour) is a men's professional senior golf tour, administered as a branch of the PGA Tour.
History and format
The Senior PGA Championship, founded in 1937, was for many years ...