The Senior Players Championship, stylised by the

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as The SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, is one of the five major championships on

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. The inaugural event was played in

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and the age minimum is 50, the standard for men's senior professional golf tournaments. The winner gains entry into the following season's Players Championship on the PGA Tour. For sponsorship reasons, from 2023, the tournament will be titled as the Kaulig Companies Championship. Unlike the

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, the Senior PGA Championship, and the Senior Open Championship, it is not recognized as a major by the

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, and is not part of that tour's schedule. Since 2019, the Senior Players championship has been held at

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; it replaced the

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that had been held there before moving to

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Winners

Multiple winners

The following men had more than one win in the Senior Players Championship through 2022: *3 wins:

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(2014, 2015, 2016) *2 wins:

Arnold Palmer Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. Dating back to 1955, he won numerous ev ...

(1984, 1985),

Dave Stockton David Knapp Stockton (born November 2, 1941) is an American retired professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. Stockton was born in San Bernardino, California. He attended the University of Souther ...

(1992, 1994), Raymond Floyd (1996, 2000), Jerry Kelly (2020, 2022)

Winners of both The Players and the Senior Players

The following men have won both

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and the Senior Players Championship:

Notes

References

External links

Coverage on the PGA Tour Champions' official site
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