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SENIOR presented by presented PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PGA ROGER CHAPMAN 2012 Senior PGA Champion Harbor Shores | Benton Harbor, Mich. 74TH SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP presented by KitchenAid May 23 – 26, 2013 Bellerive Country Club St. Louis, Mo. 75TH SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP presented by KitchenAid May 22 – 25, 2014 Harbor Shores Benton Harbor, Mich. SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2013 | 245 74TH SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP presented by KitchenAid MAY 23 – 26, 2013 | Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis, Mo. Defending Champion: Roger Chapman FacTS AND FORMAT • The top 18 players from the 2012 European Seniors Tour Order of Merit Purse and Honors The 2013 Senior PGA Champion will • The top 2 players from the 2013 European Senior Tour Order have his name engraved on the Alfred S. Bourne Trophy, of Merit not otherwise exempt, provided they are in the top 20 donated to The PGA of America in 1937. The 2013 total purse of such Order of Merit as of May 13, 2013. will be announced prior to the Championship. In 2012, the • The top four players from the 2012 Japanese Seniors Tour Senior PGA Champion received $378,000 from a total purse Order of Merit CH SENIOR PGA of $2.1 million. • The winners of official PGA Tour, Japan PGA Tour or European Television (All Times Eastern) Tour events in the preceding five calendar years (2008-2012) and during the current year up to the Senior PGA Championship Thursday, May 23 ..............GOLF Channel / 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. – for 50-year-old players only (a one-time exemption) Friday, May 24 ..................GOLF Channel / 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. • The top 30 from the Champions Tour career money list as of May 6, 2013 Saturday, May 25: ............................... NBC / 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. • The top 30 from the All-Time Career Money List as of May 6, Sunday, May 26 .................................. NBC / 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. 2013 (combined PGA Tour, Champions Tour) Method of Play Seventy-two holes of stroke play, four • Any former PGA Professional National Champion turning 50 A rounds of 18 holes. Following the first 36 holes of play, the between the 2012 Senior PGA Championship and the 2013 M Senior PGA Championship (a one-time exemption) P field of 156 players will be reduced to the low 70 scorers and I ties. Those players will advance to complete the final two • In addition, The PGA reserves the right to invite additional ON rounds. In the event of a tie for first place after 72 holes, there players not included in the categories listed above. • Openings caused by the withdrawal or non-entry of any of S will be a hole-by-hole playoff beginning on the 18th hole. H the 35 Senior PGA Professionals will be filled exclusively If a tie remains, the rotation of holes is Nos. 16, 17 and 18 I from an alternate list determined at the 2012 Senior PGA P repeated, if necessary. Professional Championship. All other openings in the field Rules and Regulations The Rules of Golf, which govern will be filled, in order, off the 2012 Champions Tour money play, are determined by the United States Golf Association list through May 6, 2013. and applied by the PGA of America Board of Directors. The Champion Benefits Championship is subject to the overall supervision of the Board and the PGA Rules Committee. The 2013 Senior PGA Champion receives: • A lifetime exemption into the Senior PGA Championship Eligibility Officers of The PGA of America have approved • An exemption into the 2013 PGA Championship the following list of players as eligible to compete in the 74th Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid, • An exemption into the 2013 Senior British Open provided they are at least 50 years of age: • An exemption into the 2013 U.S. Senior Open • All former Senior PGA Champions • All former PGA Champions THE ALFRED S. BOURNE TROPHY • All former Masters Champions • All former U.S. Open Champions In 1937, Alfred Severin Bourne of • All former Open Champions Washington, Conn., and Augusta, Ga., • All former U.S. Ryder Cup Team members donated a check for $1,500, for the • The 15 low scorers and ties in the 2012 Senior PGA creation of a trophy and its endowment for Championship presented by KitchenAid the Senior PGA Championship. Bourne was one of the original members of Augusta • The top 50 money winners on the 2012 Champions Tour (Ga.) National Golf Club and a longtime • The top 50 money leaders from the 2013 Champions Tour friend of PGA Professionals. Augusta money list as of May 6, 2013 National hosted the first two Senior PGA • All “official” ChampionsTour winners from the 2012 Senior Championships, in 1937-38. The Bourne PGA Championship to the 2013 Senior PGA Championship Trophy, representing the most prestigious • The top 35 finishers from the 2012 Southworth Senior PGA event in senior golf, stands 42 inches high, weighs 36 Professional National Championship pounds and is 18 inches wide. The Alfred S. Bourne • Winners of the last five U.S. Senior Opens (2008-2012) Trophy, which has been presented to many of the legends of the game, is enshrined at the PGA Museum of Golf • Winner of the last played Senior British Open (2012) in Port St. Lucie, Fla. • Winner of the 2012 DeVere Collection PGA Seniors’ Championship 246 | PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2013 SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY Bellerive Country Club – Hole No. 11 BELLERIVE COUNTRY CLUB The history of Bellerive County Club has been written across County area. Robert Trent Jones Sr. was enlisted to chart a 115 years, at three different locations, with the extraordinary new course, Jones chose a prime farm location, and the “Green effort of members who have called the club their home. It is a Monster of Ladue Road” opened on Memorial Day 1960. much celebrated history; one that brings pride not just to the In 1965, Bellerive became the “youngest” course to ever membership, but also to the St. Louis community as a whole. host the U.S. Open. Gary Player captured the Championship, As one of America’s most storied venues, Bellerive Country completing his career Grand Slam, by defeating Kel Nagle Club serves as the site of the 74th Senior PGA Championship in a playoff after the two had tied at 2-over par. Player then presented by KitchenAid. With this Championship, Bellerive donated his winning check to cancer research and junior golf. becomes only the third course to host all four of the Nick Price, the most prolific performer of the 1990s, won country’s rotating major championships – the Senior PGA his first major at the Green Monster in 1992 by winning the Championship, PGA Championship, U.S. Open and the U.S. PGA Championship. The 2001 American Express World Golf Senior Open. Championship, scheduled for the club in September of that Founded in 1897 in North St. Louis, the membership year, was cancelled due to the tragic events of September 11. incorporated as Bellerive Country Club in 1910, taking its Major championship golf returned to Bellerive in 2004, as name after Louis St. Ange De Bellerive, the last French club members and the city of St. Louis played host to the U.S. Commander in North America. Senior Open. Peter Jacobsen won his first major by besting a When the club leadership made the decision to move from stellar field of competition. its sporty 9-hole course that same year, and to create a Bellerive, a par-71, 7,547-yard layout, then underwent a year- course that would be regarded as the area’s premier layout, long renovation guided by Rees Jones, son of the late original they reached out to the one man in the Midwest capable architect, and was reopened in 2006. of providing such a facility; Robert Foulis knew the area, knew golf, and had grown up in the shadows of St. Andrews Bellerive has also hosted the inaugural U.S. Mid-Amateur itself, he would devote 32 years of his life to Bellerive as he Championship in 1981 and the 2008 BMW Championship, nurtured the land to provide the membership with a course to the third event in the FedEx Cup playoffs. meet, and exceed, their expectations. Looking ahead, Bellerive will host the 100th PGA Fifty years later, another group of members with vision and Championship in 2018, as the strongest field in golf returns to foresight made the fortuitous decision to move to the far West St. Louis to contend for the Wanamaker Trophy. 74th Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid – Dimensions of Bellerive Country Club HOLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OUT 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In TOTAL PAR 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 5 4 36 4 4 4 3 4 4 3 5 4 35 71 YARDS 420 375 149 522 468 209 373 555 435 3,586 477 330 417 180 381 449 232 531 456 3,453 6,959 SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2013 | 247 SENIOR GOLF’S STORIED MAJOR PLAYOFF RESULTS The most historic and prestigious major championship in 1938 Fred McLeod def. Otto Hackbarth, 18 holes (80 to 82) 1940 Otto Hackbarth def. Jock Hutchison (36 holes); both senior golf, the Senior PGA Championship was born in 1937 players tied at 74 after first 18 holes; on the grounds of another of golf’s majors at the invitation Hackbarth had a 74 to Hutchison’s 75 on the final 18 holes. of one of the game’s greatest players. At the suggestion of 1946 Eddie Williams def.