The FHP Health Care Classic was a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament on the
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 ...
from 1987 to 1996. It was played in
Simi Valley, California at the Wood Ranch Golf Club (1987–1988) and in
Ojai, California
Ojai ( ; Chumash: ''’Awhaỳ'') is a city in Ventura County, California. Located in the Ojai Valley, it is northwest of Los Angeles and east of Santa Barbara. The valley is part of the east–west trending Western Transverse Ranges and is ...
at the Ojai Valley Inn and Country Club (1989–1996)
The purse for the 1996 tournament was US$800,000, with $120,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1987 as the GTE Classic.
Winners
FHP Health Care Classic
*1996
Walter Morgan
*1995
Bruce Devlin
GTE West Classic
*1994
Jay Sigel
*1993
Al Geiberger
Allen Lee Geiberger Sr. (born September 1, 1937) is an American former professional golfer.
Professional career
Geiberger turned pro in 1959 and joined the PGA Tour in 1960. Geiberger won 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour, the first being the 1962 ...
*1992
Bruce Crampton
*1991
Chi-Chi Rodríguez
Juan Antonio "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez (born October 23, 1935) is a Puerto Rican professional golfer. The winner of eight PGA Tour events, he was the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Early years
Rodríguez was bor ...
*1989
Walt Zembriski
GTE Classic
*1988
Harold Henning
Harold Henning (3 October 1934 – 1 January 2004) was a South African professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.
Early life
Henning was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. His brothers Allan, Brian, and Graham ...
*1987
Bob Charles
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References
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Former PGA Tour Champions events
Golf in California
Recurring sporting events established in 1987
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1996
1987 establishments in California
1996 disestablishments in California