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The schedule Tickets WednesDAY the gate. Regions employ- $15 each day CGI Wednesday Pro-Am, ees get free admission by Kids 15 and under get in showing employee id. 6:50 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. free with a ticketed adult ThursDAY SunDAY Tickets are available at the Championship round, 7 gate, or go online to www. CGI Thursday Pro-Am, a.m. – 4:30 p.m. regionscharityclassic.com. 6:50 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Bernard Langer Discounted tickets avail- Coaches Putting Chal- Television able at CVS stores in lenge, 9:30 a.m. The Players Who to watch for : 6:30–8:30 the metro area. $1 from FriDAY p.m. Friday and Saturday; Frank Shikle every ticket purchased at 7–9:30 p.m. Sunday. (Tape CVS will go to Children’s First round tournament Michael Allan Chien Soon Lu delayed all three days.) Hospital. play, 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. John Cook . Morgan Keegan Free Blaine McCallister Fore Forty+: Free admis- FYI Parking sion for those 40 and . Lawn chairs, umbrellas Ronnie Black Mike McCullough All public parking is free at permitted. older if you register with Regions Park. Morgan Keegan at the . No cameras during Oline Browne Thursday–Sunday, shuttles gate. tournament play. Rick Smallridge R.W. Eaks will run from Regions Park . Autographs lmited to Mike Smith to the tournament en- SaturDAY after players complete trance throughout the day. Second round tourna- their rounds. Jack Ferenz ment play, 7 a.m. – 4:30 On Wednesday only, park- p.m. Steve Haskins Joe Ozaki ing will be at Ross Bridge. . Military Appreciation Kirk Henefield Corey Pavin No parking passes needed. Leonard Thompson Day: Active and retired Fred Holton Daid Peoples members of the military get free admission with a valid identification card. Defending Peter Jacobsen champion . Regions Bank Cus- Keith Fergus tomer and Employee Ap- Gene Jones John Ross preciation Day: Regions Bank customers get free Jim Roy admission by showing your Regions CheckCard, credit card or a check at Fuzzy Zeoller The Course Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge 7,525 yards, 72 (36-36)

Newcomers players making Regions debut Corey Pavin John Cook Peter Jacobsen He joined the Champi- He had 11 wins on the PGA He has been plagued by ons Tour this season and Tour, winning more than various injuries since join- already has a second-place $12.5 million. He has four ing the Champions Tour in finish. He will captain the wins on the Champions 2004 and, for that reason, U.S. team in the biannual Tour, including the season- is new to the Regions this matches, to ending Charles Schwab year. He has won twice on be played at Celtic Manor Cup Championship in the Champions Tour: the 2009. He finished third on 2004 U.S. Senior Open in Wales in September. the final money list last and the 2005 Ford Senior Pavin took home 15 titles year. This year, he has two Players Championship. He over his PGA career and losses. has earned $2.7 million in more than $15 million. The 69 Champions Tour starts, highlight of his career is Bill Glasson added to $7.8 million and the 1995 U.S. Open at Shin- His 50th birthday was April seven wins on the regular necock Hills, which is re- 29, and he’s returning to tour. membered for his 4-wood competition for the first approach on the final hole time since 2007 when his Bobby Clampett that set up his win. PGA Tour career was wind- He is known mostly for ing down. He won seven his commentary work for David Frost times on the regular tour CBS Sports, for which he He won 10 times in his during an injury-blighted has worked since 1991. He PGA Tour career, bank- career, banking nearly $7 turned 50 in April and the ing more than $9.1 million. million. Regions will be just his sec- ond start on the Champi- His biggest win came at the 1989 World Series ons Tour. He won once on He still plays mostly the of Golf. He also won 12 the regular tour and was a PGA Tour, and has made three-time All-American times internationally as he just six Champions Tour at BYU. played his native South starts since turning 50 last African Tour, as well as the year. However, he already Keith Clearwater European Tour. He’s yet to has a win, the 2009 Senior He was on the same 1981 break through for a win on PGA Championship. He has NCAA-winning BYU team the Champions Tour, but also won on the European as Clampett, and won has won almost $500,000 and Nationwide tours, but twice on the PGA Tour, in 12 starts. never on the PGA Tour. both coming in 1987.

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