# Senior Players Championship

The Senior Players Championship, stylised by the PGA Tour as The SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, is one of the five major championships on golf's PGA Tour Champions. The inaugural event was played 41 years ago in 1983 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 (although Retief Goosen, the 2019 winner, was not allowed to play in the official subsequent Players Championship). For sponsorship reasons in 2023, the tournament was titled as the Kaulig Companies Championship.
Unlike the U.S. Senior Open, the Senior PGA Championship, and the Senior Open Championship, it is not recognized as a major by the European Senior Tour, and is not part of that tour's schedule.
Since 2019, the Senior Players championship has been held at the South course of the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio; it replaced the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational that had been held there before moving to Memphis, Tennessee.

## Course layout

| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
| Yards | 399 | 526 | 420 | 450 | 200 | 460 | 219 | 470 | 461 | 3,605 | 410 | 418 | 180 | 450 | 460 | 221 | 640 | 400 | 464 | 3,643 | 7,248 |
| Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 70 |

## Early years

The first four editions were at Canterbury Golf Club near Cleveland; the inaugural in 1983 had fifty players, no cut, and a purse of $250,000; Miller Barber won the title and $40,000, sinking a ten-foot (3 m) birdie putt on the final hole to finish one stroke ahead of runner-up Gene Littler. Arnold Palmer was seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth.
Palmer won the next year by three strokes, and successfully defended the title in 1985, winning by eleven strokes. Heavy rains on Thursday afternoon reduced the tournament to 54 holes in 1986, and Chi-Chi Rodríguez gained the first of his 22 wins on the senior tour, two strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton.

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Winner's share ($) | Venue | Location |
| Kaulig Companies Championship |||||||||
| 2024 | Ernie Els | 270 | −10 | 1 stroke | Yang Yong-eun | 525,000 | Firestone (South Course) | Akron, Ohio |
| 2023 | Steve Stricker (2) | 269 | −11 | 3 strokes | David Toms | 525,000 | Firestone (South Course) | Akron, Ohio |
| Bridgestone Senior Players Championship |||||||||
| 2022 | Jerry Kelly (2) | 269 | −11 | 2 strokes | Steve Stricker | 450,000 | Firestone (South Course) | Akron, Ohio |
| 2021 | Steve Stricker | 273 | −7 | 6 strokes | Jerry Kelly | 420,000 | Firestone (South Course) | Akron, Ohio |
| 2020 | Jerry Kelly | 277 | −3 | 2 strokes | Scott Parel | 420,000 | Firestone (South Course) | Akron, Ohio |
| 2019 | Retief Goosen | 274 | −6 | 2 strokes | Jay Haas Tim Petrovic | 420,000 | Firestone (South Course) | Akron, Ohio |
| Constellation Senior Players Championship |||||||||
| 2018 | Vijay Singh | 268 | −20 | Playoff | Jeff Maggert | 420,000 | Exmoor | Highland Park, Illinois |
| 2017 | Scott McCarron | 270 | −18 | 1 stroke | Brandt Jobe Bernhard Langer | 420,000 | Caves Valley | Owings Mills, Maryland |
| 2016 | Bernhard Langer (3) | 281 | +1 | 1 stroke | Joe Durant Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 420,000 | Philadelphia (Wissahickon Course) | Flourtown, Pennsylvania |
| 2015 | Bernhard Langer (2) | 265 | −19 | 5 strokes | Kirk Triplett | 405,000 | Belmont | Belmont, Massachusetts |
| 2014 | Bernhard Langer | 265 | −15 | Playoff | Jeff Sluman | 405,000 | Fox Chapel | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 2013 | Kenny Perry | 261 | −19 | 5 strokes | Fred Funk | 405,000 | Fox Chapel | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 2012 | Joe Daley | 266 | −14 | 2 strokes | Tom Lehman | 405,000 | Fox Chapel | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship |||||||||
| 2011 | Fred Couples | 273 | −11 | Playoff | John Cook | 405,000 | Westchester | Harrison, New York |
| 2010 | Mark O'Meara | 273 | −7 | Playoff | Michael Allen | 405,000 | TPC Potomac | Potomac, Maryland |
| 2009 | Jay Haas | 267 | −13 | 1 stroke | Tom Watson | 405,000 | Baltimore (East Course) | Timonium, Maryland |
| 2008 | D. A. Weibring | 271 | −9 | 1 stroke | Fred Funk | 390,000 | Baltimore (East Course) | Timonium, Maryland |
| 2007 | Loren Roberts | 267 | −13 | 6 strokes | Tom Watson | 390,000 | Baltimore (East Course) | Timonium, Maryland |
| Ford Senior Players Championship |||||||||
| 2006 | Bobby Wadkins | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Jim Thorpe | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 2005 | Peter Jacobsen | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | Hale Irwin | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 2004 | Mark James | 275 | −13 | 1 stroke | José María Cañizares | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 2003 | Craig Stadler | 271 | −17 | 3 strokes | Tom Kite Jim Thorpe Tom Watson | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 2002 | Stewart Ginn | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Hubert Green Mike McCullough Jim Thorpe | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 2001 | Allen Doyle | 273 | −15 | Playoff | Doug Tewell | 375,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 2000 | Raymond Floyd (2) | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | Larry Nelson Dana Quigley | 345,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1999 | Hale Irwin | 267 | −21 | 7 strokes | Graham Marsh | 300,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1998 | Gil Morgan | 267 | −21 | 3 strokes | Hale Irwin | 300,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1997 | Larry Gilbert | 274 | −14 | 3 strokes | Isao Aoki Bob Dickson Jack Kiefer Dave Stockton | 270,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1996 | Raymond Floyd | 275 | −13 | 2 strokes | Hale Irwin | 225,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1995 | J. C. Snead | 272 | −16 | Playoff | Jack Nicklaus | 225,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1994 | Dave Stockton (2) | 271 | −17 | 6 strokes | Jim Albus | 210,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1993 | Jim Colbert | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Raymond Floyd | 180,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| The Senior Players Championship |||||||||
| 1992 | Dave Stockton | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | J. C. Snead Lee Trevino | 150,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1991 | Jim Albus | 279 | −9 | 3 strokes | Bob Charles Charles Coody Dave Hill | 150,000 | TPC of Michigan | Dearborn, Michigan |
| Mazda Senior Tournament Players Championship |||||||||
| 1990 | Jack Nicklaus | 261 | −27 | 6 strokes | Lee Trevino | 150,000 | Dearborn | Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1989 | Orville Moody | 271 | −17 | 2 strokes | Charles Coody | 105,000 | TPC at Sawgrass | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida |
| 1988 | Billy Casper | 278 | −10 | 2 strokes | Al Geiberger | 60,000 | TPC at Sawgrass | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida |
| 1987 | Gary Player | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | Bruce Crampton Chi-Chi Rodríguez | 60,000 | Sawgrass | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida |
| Senior Tournament Players Championship |||||||||
| 1986 | Chi-Chi Rodríguez | 206 | −10 | 2 strokes | Bruce Crampton | 45,000 | Canterbury | Beachwood, Ohio |
| 1985 | Arnold Palmer (2) | 274 | −14 | 11 strokes | Miller Barber Lee Elder Gene Littler Charles Owens | 36,000 | Canterbury | Beachwood, Ohio |
| 1984 | Arnold Palmer | 276 | −12 | 3 strokes | Peter Thomson | 36,000 | Canterbury | Beachwood, Ohio |
| 1983 | Miller Barber | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Gene Littler | 40,000 | Canterbury | Beachwood, Ohio |

## Multiple winners

Through 2023, six players had multiple wins in the Senior Players Championship:
* 3 wins: Bernhard Langer (2014, 2015, 2016)
* 2 wins: Arnold Palmer (1984, 1985), Dave Stockton (1992, 1994), Raymond Floyd (1996, 2000), Jerry Kelly (2020, 2022), Steve Stricker (2021, 2023)

## Winners of both The Players and the Senior Players

Three have won both The Players Championship and the Senior Players Championship:
| Player | The Players Championship | Senior Players Championship |
| Jack Nicklaus | 1974, 1976, 1978 | 1990 |
| Raymond Floyd | 1981 | 1996, 2000 |
| Fred Couples | 1984, 1996 | 2011 |