73RD SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Presented by Kitchenaid MAY 24 – 27, 2012 | HARBOR SHORES, BENTON HARBOR, MICH
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PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2012 73RD SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP presented by KitchenAid MAY 24 – 27, 2012 | HARBOR SHORES, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. Defending Champion: Tom Watson FACTS & FORMAT • The top 18 players from the 2011 European Seniors Tour Order of Merit • The top 2 players from the 2012 European Senior Tour Purse and Honors The 2012 Senior PGA Champion Order of Merit not otherwise exempt, provided they are will have his name engraved on the Alfred S. Bourne Trophy, in the top 20 of such Order of Merit as of May 14, 2012 donated to The PGA of America in 1937. The 2012 total purse • The top four players from the 2011 Japanese Seniors will be announced prior to the Championship. In 2011, the Tour Order of Merit Senior PGA Champion received $360,000 from a total purse • The winners of official PGA Tour, Japan PGA Tour or of $2 million. European Tour events in the preceding five calendar years Television (2007-2011) and during the current year up to the Senior Thursday, May 24 ................................................GOLF Channel PGA Championship – for 50-year-old players only Friday, May 25 .....................................................GOLF Channel (a one-time exemption) Saturday, May 26 ................................................................. NBC • The top 30 from the Champions Tour career money list Sunday, May 27 .................................................................... NBC as of May 7, 2012 • The top 30 from the All-Time Career Money List as of Method of Play Seventy-two holes of stroke play, four May 7, 2012 (combined PGA Tour, Champions Tour) rounds of 18 holes. Following the first 36 holes of play, the • Any former PGA Professional National Champion turning field of 156 players will be reduced to the low 70 scorers and 50 between the 2011 Senior PGA Championship and the ties. Those players will advance to complete the final two 2012 Senior PGA Championship (a one-time exemption) rounds. In the event of a tie for first place after 72 holes, there will be a hole-by-hole playoff beginning on the 18th hole. • In addition, The PGA reserves the right to invite additional If a tie remains, the rotation of holes is Nos. 16, 17 and 18 players not included in the categories listed above. repeated, if necessary. Openings caused by the withdrawal or non-entry of any of the 35 Senior PGA Professionals will be filled exclusively Rules and Regulations The Rules of Golf, which govern from an alternate list determined at the 2011 Senior PGA play, are determined by the United States Golf Association Professional Championship. All other openings in the field and applied by the PGA of America Board of Directors. The will be filled, in order, off the 2011 Champions Tour Championship is subject to the overall supervision of the PGA money list through May 7, 2012. Board of Directors and the PGA Rules Committee. Champions Benefits Eligibility Officers of The PGA of America have approved The 2012 Senior PGA Champion receives: the following list of players as eligible to compete in the • A lifetime exemption into the Senior PGA Championship 73rd Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid, • An exemption into the 2012 PGA Championship provided they are at least 50 years of age: • An exemption into the 2012 Senior British Open • All former Senior PGA Champions • An exemption into the 2012 U.S. Senior Open • All former PGA Champions • All former Masters Champions • All former U.S. Open Champions THE ALFRED S. BOURNE TROPHY • All former British Open Champions In 1937, Alfred Severin Bourne of • All former U.S. Ryder Cup Team members Washington, Conn., and Augusta, Ga., • The 15 low scorers and ties in the 2011 Senior PGA donated a check for $1,500, for the Championship presented by KitchenAid creation of a trophy and its endowment for • The top 50 money winners on the 2011 Champions Tour the Senior PGA Championship. Bourne was • The top 50 money leaders from the 2012 Champions Tour one of the original members of Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club and a longtime money list as of May 7, 2012 friend of PGA Professionals. Augusta • All “official” Champions Tour winners from the 2011 Senior National hosted the first two Senior PGA PGA Championship to the 2012 Senior PGA Championship Championships, in 1937-38. The Bourne • The top 35 finishers from the 2011 Southworth Senior Trophy, representing the most prestigious PGA Professional National Championship event in senior golf, stands 42 inches high, weighs 36 • Winners of the last five U.S. Senior Opens (2007-2011) pounds and is 18 inches wide. The Alfred S. Bourne Trophy, which has been presented to many of the legends • Winner of the last played Senior British Open (2011) of the game, is enshrined at the PGA Museum of Golf • Winner of the 2011 DeVere Collection PGA in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Seniors’ Championship PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2012 SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY Harbor Shores – Hole No. 15 Primose, Par 5 – Benton Harbor, Mich. HARBOR SHORES Opened for its first full season on April 29, 2010, Harbor Shores’ arrival on the national golf landscape resulted in Shores reflects the high standards of one of the world’s leading recognition from Links Magazine – “Class of 2010 – most design firms, Nicklaus Design. This 18-hole, daily-fee layout significant course openings.” The Harbor Shores Project is the only Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course designed for revitalization of a community was named a finalist as on the shores of Lake Michigan. While many courses are a Business Review Western Michigan Deal of the Year in becoming environmentally conscious, Harbor Shores goes a the Construction category. The Golf Course Superintendents step further by exhibiting a social consciousness as well. The Association of America (GCSAA) and Golf Digest honored property in Benton Harbor features three distinctive types Harbor Shores’ commitment to the environment with the of golf environment as holes are shaped among lakefront GCSAA/Golf Digest Environmental Leaders in Golf Award. dunes, Michigan hardwoods, and pristine wetlands. The social This prestigious honor recognizes golf course superintendents environment taps into the natural surroundings of Benton and their courses for overall course management excellence in Harbor with city life just blocks away and local workers the areas of resource conservation; water quality management; entrusted to establish a tradition of excellent service. Harbor integrated pest management; wildlife/habitat management and Shores serves as the host site for the 2012 and 2014 Senior education/outreach. PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid, and is the first The green of Harbor Shores extends past the fairways to the major championship conducted in Southwest Michigan. It reclamation of the land upon which Harbor Shores is built. runs over remarkably diverse terrain that challenges golfers After years of debris removal, soil remediation, and demolition, even as it offers a spectacular setting in which to play. Three Harbor Shores has reclaimed acres of fresh, useable, and living holes offer dramatic views of Lake Michigan. Eleven holes green space for the entire community to enjoy. Harbor Shores border the Paw Paw River, Ox Creek, and its wetlands. In is a cooperative effort made possible by a partnership between addition, four holes wind through rolling hills, ravines, and a the Whirlpool Foundation, The Consortium for Community hardwood forest. The result is a golf course unlike any other. Development, Cornerstone Alliance, the City of Benton In addition to the challenging design, the course has a strong Harbor, the City of St. Joseph, Benton Charter Township, connection to art and to the local community. Each hole Berrien County, the State of Michigan, and others. Whirlpool has been named after plants indigenous to the area. At each Corporation also has added support to Harbor Shores’ partner hole, a metal sculpture with at least one piece of hand-blown organizations. Whirlpool Corporation is a global manufacturer glass holds a plaque describing one of Jack Nicklaus’ major and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales championships. The metal sculptor, Josh Andres, and the of more than $18 billion, 73,000 employees, and nearly 70 glassblower, Jerry Catania, have studios in the Arts District manufacturing and technology centers around the globe. The in Benton Harbor. This project was a partnership between company’s world headquarters are in Benton Harbor, Mich., Harbor Shores and the Benton Harbor Arts District. Harbor just minutes away from Harbor Shores. 73rd Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid – Dimensions of Harbor Shores HOLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OUT 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In TOTAL PAR 4 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 5 36 5 3 4 3 4 5 4 3 4 35 71 YARDS 423 174 324 209 573 417 436 384 578 3,518 539 144 412 197 450 549 422 171 420 3,304 6,822 SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2012 THE STORY OF A MAJOR PLAYOFF RESULTS The oldest and most prestigious major championship in 1938 Fred McLeod def. Otto Hackbarth, 18 holes (80 to 82) senior golf, the Senior PGA Championship was born in 1937 1940 Otto Hackbarth def. Jock Hutchison (36 holes); both players tied at 74 after first 18 holes; Hackbarth had a on the grounds of another of golf’s majors at the invitation 74 to Hutchison’s 75 on the final 18 holes.<%0> of one of the game’s greatest players. At the suggestion of 1946 Eddie Williams def. Jock Hutchison renowned amateur Bobby Jones, the inaugural Senior PGA (18 holes, scores unavailable) Championship was played at Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club 1951 Al Watrous def. Jock Hutchison (18 holes, 75 to 81) three years after the first Masters Tournament was held there.