The Boeing Classic is a professional golf tournament in Washington on the PGA Tour Champions , founded 19 years ago in 2005 . The 54-hole event is played annually in August in Snoqualmie , east of Seattle . It was titled the "Boeing Greater Seattle Classic" for its first two years and Boeing is the main sponsor.
21-637: The Seattle area's previous senior tour event, the GTE Northwest Classic , ran from 1986 through 1995 . The first edition was at Sahalee Country Club and the remainder were at Inglewood Golf Club in Kenmore . Since its inception in 2005, the Boeing Classic has been held at The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge , a private course designed by Jack Nicklaus which opened for play 25 years ago in 1999 as TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. The course
42-453: A 2011 post on his blog. Standard tour events—apart from invitationals and majors, which have their own entry criteria—have a field of 78 (currently 81). The first 60 places in the field are filled as follows: This leaves 18 places: The following players have won more than one money list title through 2023: The table shows the top ten career money leaders on PGA Tour Champions through the 2023 season. Source: The PGA Tour also publishes
63-580: A playoff place. The playoffs operate on a points system, with each qualifying player receiving a points total equal to the money earned on the season. Points during the first two playoff events, the QQQ Championship and Dominion Charity Classic, are also based on money earned, except that the winner of each of those events receives double points. The playoff field is cut to 54 for the Dominion Charity Classic, and finally to 36 for
84-422: Is $ 51.5 million over 26 tournaments, with a record average purse of $ 1.98 million per event; slightly higher than the 2008 prize money of $ 51.4 million over the same number of events. The total prize money and number of events, however, are down from previous years—for example, the 2007 tour offered a total of $ 55.2 million over 29 events. Most of the tournaments are played over three rounds (54 holes), which
105-636: Is 25 miles (40 km) east of Seattle at the foothills of the Cascade Range , and varies in elevation from 575 to 870 feet (175 to 265 m) above sea level , with the 18th green at 745 feet (227 m). From 2007 to 2010, the tournament was played the week following the JELD-WEN Tradition , a senior major championship played in Sunriver , Oregon . For its first two years, the tournament immediately preceded The Tradition, which
126-683: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sports in Washington state is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Senior PGA Tour PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour ) is a men's professional senior golf tour , open to golfers age 50 and over, administered as a branch of the PGA Tour . The Senior PGA Championship , founded in 1937,
147-600: Is one round fewer than regular professional stroke play tournaments on the PGA Tour. Because of this and having smaller fields (81 golfers), there are generally no "cuts" between any of the rounds. However, the five senior majors have a full 72 holes (four rounds) with a 36-hole cut. Until 2015, the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship , with a limited field of 36, was played over 72 holes with no cut. Since 2016, it has been played over 54 holes with no cut. A golfer's performances can be quite variable from one round to
168-686: The Charles Schwab Cup Championship. After the Dominion Charity Classic, the field's points are reset so that each of the remaining 36 players can theoretically win the Charles Schwab Cup, and that each of the top five players can clinch the Charles Schwab Cup by winning the final event. In 2006 , the Champions Tour Division Board of the PGA Tour organization voted to allow players the option to use golf carts during most events on
189-625: The PGA Tour Champions season. The top 72 players on the money list automatically qualify for the first playoff event, the PowerShares QQQ Championship. Additionally, if one or more golfers finish in the top 10 in the final non-playoff event, the SAS Championship, and are not in the top 72 on the money list entering the playoffs, the highest such finisher in the SAS Championship will also receive
210-451: The event. Kite won the tournament in 2006 in a one-hole playoff over Keith Fergus , and was the runner-up in 2005, finishing three strokes behind David Eger . The 2009 tournament was held on August 28–30 with a $ 1.8 million purse. Second-round co-leader Loren Roberts birdied the final two holes and outlasted Mark O'Meara by nearly matching his sterling tee shot at 17 and dribbled in a five-foot (1.5 m) birdie putt. Roberts birdied
231-519: The next, and playing an extra round increases the likelihood that the senior majors will be won by leading players. Through the 2015 season, the Charles Schwab Cup was a season-long points race. Points were given to players who finished in the top 10. One point was earned for each $ 1,000 won (i.e. $ 500,000 = 500 points) with majors counting double. From the Cup's inception in 1990 through 2015,
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#1732801367507252-851: The only playoff was in 1994, won by Simon Hobday with a birdie on the third extra hole to defeat Jim Albus . The purse for the final edition in 1995 was $ 600,000, with a winner's share of $ 90,000, which was at the low end of the scale. The sponsors opted not to renew for 1996 and the event was discontinued. The senior tour returned to the Seattle area in 2005 with the Boeing Classic at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge in Snoqualmie . Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records. Source: 47°45′00″N 122°15′18″W / 47.75°N 122.255°W / 47.75; -122.255 This article on an American golf tournament
273-419: The second playoff hole, a second replay of the par-5 18th hole. The purse for 2008 was $ 1.7 million, with a winner's share of $ 255,000. The par-72 course was set at 7,183 yards (6,568 m). Tom Kite shot a final round 66 to finish at 202 (−14), two strokes ahead of second round leader Scott Simpson . Kite was the only player in the field to break 70 in all three rounds and became the first repeat winner of
294-487: The top 30 players competed in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, which was contested over four rounds and where all contestants earned points. The top five finishers in the points race earned annuities. In 2016, the format of the Charles Schwab Cup was radically changed to a playoff-style format similar to that used for the FedEx Cup on the main PGA Tour. Qualification for the playoffs is now based on money earned during
315-399: The tour. The five major championships and certain other events, including pro-ams, are excluded. Current PGA Tour Champions competitor and TV golf analyst Bobby Clampett has called the process for determining the field in tour events "the most complicated system known to man," and added that "[n]ot a single player even understands it fully." Clampett attempted to explain the process in
336-399: The uphill par-5 final hole with a short pitch shot to 3 feet (0.9 m) and dropped the putt for his third victory of the season. Roberts shot a 7-under 65 in the final round and set a new tournament record at 198 (–18). In 2010 , the U.S. Senior Open was held at Sahalee Country Club in nearby Sammamish , and won by Bernhard Langer with a final score of 272 (−8). The Boeing Classic
357-617: Was a professional golf tournament in the Seattle area on the Senior PGA Tour . Played for ten seasons, from 1986 through 1995 , its inaugural event was at Sahalee Country Club (now in Sammamish ) and the last nine were at Inglewood Golf Club in Kenmore . The title sponsor was GTE Northwest , a local telephone operating company headquartered in Everett . Bruce Crampton was the only multiple winner, with victories at both venues;
378-548: Was for many years the only high-profile tournament for golfers over 50. The idea for a senior tour grew out of a highly successful event in 1978, the Legends of Golf at Onion Creek Club in Austin, Texas , which featured competition between two-member teams of some of the greatest older golfers of that day. The tour was formally established in 1980 and was originally known as the Senior PGA Tour until October 2002 . The tour
399-572: Was held four weeks after on August 27–29, also won by Langer by three strokes over Nick Price of Zimbabwe . Langer tied the record set the previous year by Roberts at 198. The purse was raised to an even two million dollars in 2011 , with a winner's share of $ 300,000. Half of the first twelve editions ended in playoffs. Three players have won this tournament more than once through 2024. 47°32′06″N 121°51′36″W / 47.535°N 121.860°W / 47.535; -121.860 GTE Northwest Classic The GTE Northwest Classic
420-471: Was then played at The Reserve near Portland . The Tradition moved to Alabama in 2011 and is played in May. The purse for the 2007 tournament was $ 1.6 million, with $ 240,000 to the champion, Denis Watson , the winner of a playoff. The seven-man, sudden death playoff was the largest in tour history, with the seven finishing the 54 holes at 207 (−9). The tournament concluded when Watson sunk an eagle putt on
441-798: Was then renamed the Champions Tour through the 2015 season , after which the current name of "PGA Tour Champions" was adopted. Of the 26 tournaments on the 2010 schedule, all were in the United States except for the Cap Cana Championship in the Dominican Republic , the Senior Open Championship in Scotland and tournaments in Canada and South Korea . The guaranteed minimum official prize money
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