79TH KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 MEDIA GUIDE BERNHARD LANGER Champion PGA Senior KitchenAid 2017 Va. Falls, | Potomac D.C. - Washington, Golf National Club Trump 79TH KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 22-27 2018 Harbor Shores Benton Harbor, Michigan 80TH KITCHENAID SENIOR 81ST KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 21-26, 2019 2020 Oak Hill Country Club Harbor Shores Pittsford, New York Benton Harbor, Michigan 82ND KITCHENAID SENIOR 83RD KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 2021 2022 Southern Hills Country Club Harbor Shores Tulsa, Oklahoma Benton Harbor, Michigan KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2018 | 1 79TH KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP May 24-27, 2018 – Harbor Shores Benton Harbor, Michigan Defending Champion: Bernhard Langer FACTS AND FORMAT Purse and Honors The 2018 KitchenAid Senior PGA 11. The top 35 finishers from the 2017 Senior PGA Champion will have his name engraved on the Alfred S. Professional Championship. Bourne Trophy, donated to the PGA of America in 1937. 12. Winners of the last five United States Senior Open The total purse for 2018 will be announced prior to the Championships (2013-2017). Championship. In 2017, the KitchenAid Senior PGA 13. Winners of the last five Senior Open Championships Champion received $540,000 from a total purse of $3 million. (2013-2017). 14. The top 20 finishers from the 2017 European SeniorTour Television Order of Merit. (All Times Subject to Change - Eastern) 15. The top 4 finishers on the 2017 Japanese SeniorTour Order of Merit. First Round, Thursday, May 24 16. Winners of Official PGA Tour, JPGA Tour, and European Tour GOLF Channel: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. events in the preceding five calendar years (2013-2017) and Second Round, Friday, May 25 during the current year up to the KitchenAid Senior PGA GOLF Channel: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Championship – for 50-year-olds only (a one-time exemption). 17. The top 30 from the PGA Tour Champions Career Money List Third Round, Saturday, May 26 as of April 24, 2018. NBC: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 18. The top 30 from the All-Time Career Money List as of April Fourth Round, Sunday, May 27 24, 2018. (combined PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions) NBC: 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. 19. Any former PGA Professional Championship champion turning 50 between the 2017 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship Method of Play Seventy-two holes of stroke play, four and the 2018 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship (a one- rounds of 18 holes. Following the first 36 holes of play, the time exemption). field of 156 players will be reduced to the low 70 scorers and 20. The PGA reserves the right to invite additional players not ties. Those players will advance to complete the final two included in the categories listed above. rounds. In the event of a tie for first place after 72 holes, there The total field will be a maximum of 156 players. Openings caused will be a hole-by-hole playoff beginning on the 18th hole. by the withdrawal or non-entry of any of the 35 club professionals (see item 11 above) will be filled exclusively from an alternate list If a tie remains, the rotation of holes is Nos. 16, 17 and 18 determined at the 2017 Senior PGA Professional Championship. repeated, if necessary. All other openings in the field will be filled, in order, off of the 2018 Rules and Regulations The Rules of Golf, which govern PGA Tour Champions Money List through April 24, 2018, through play, are determined by the United States Golf Association position 99. If, and when, the next opening occurs, position 100 and forward will be filled by alternating between the 2017 Senior PGA and applied by the PGA of America Board of Directors. The Professional Championship Alternate List and the 2018 PGA Tour Championship is subject to the overall supervision of the Champions Money List. Board and the PGA Rules Committee. Champion Benefits Eligibility All contestants in the 79th KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship (except international players) MUST BE The 2018 KitchenAid Senior PGA Champion receives: A PGA OF AMERICA MEMBER in good standing, 50 years • A lifetime exemption into the KitchenAid Senior PGA of age or older on the Opening Day of the Championship, May Championship 24, 2018, and subject to the eligibility requirements. • An exemption into the 2018 PGA Championship 1. All former winners of The KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship. • An exemption into the 2018 Senior British Open 2. All former winners of The PGA Championship. • An exemption into the 2018 U.S. Senior Open 3. All former winners of The Masters. 4. All former winners of The United States Open. 5. All former winners of The Open Championship. 6. All former United States Ryder Cup Team members. 7. The top 15 finishers and ties from the 2017 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship. 8. The top 50 finishers on the 2017 PGA Tour Champions Money List. 9. The top 50 finishers on the 2018 PGA Tour Champions Money List as of April 24, 2018. 10. All “Official” PGA Tour Champions Tournament winners from the 2017 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship to the 2018 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship. KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2018 | 2 Harbor Shores, Benton Harbor, Michigan which wind through rolling hills, ravines and hardwood THE ALFRED S. BOURNE TROPHY forest. The finishing holes 14-18 are placed in a River terrain which border the Paw Paw River, Ox Creek and In 1937, Alfred Severin Bourne of its wetlands. The result is a golf course unlike any other, Washington, Conn., and Augusta, Ga., donated a check for $1,500, for the allowing you to experience all the different courses you creation of a trophy and its endowment can play in Michigan, all in one course. Amazing terrain. for the Senior PGA Championship. A dramatic design. Bourne was one of the original members of Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club and The KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship made its a longtime friend of PGA Professionals. first appearance in Michigan in 2012 at Harbor Shores, a Augusta National hosted the first two Senior PGA Championships, in 1937-38. proud part of the revitalization of the Benton Harbor and The Bourne Trophy, representing the St. Joseph communities, which is quickly becoming one most prestigious event in senior golf, stands 42 inches of the premier golf destinations in the Midwest. high, weighs 36 pounds and is 18 inches wide. The Alfred S. Bourne Trophy, which has been presented to many of "With Harbor Shores, we set out really to change a the legends of the game, is enshrined at the PGA Gallery at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla. community," Nicklaus said. "This wasn't just about a golf course. This was a non-profit project. That's the HARBOR SHORES important part of it. When we started, we had a factory BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN where the first tee is. We had to remove toxic waste and buildings. But in the end, the whole course looks Harbor Shores is the first beach, golf, and residential beautiful and we hope is enjoyable to play." waterfront community in Michigan’s Great Southwest Harbor Shores was ranked No. 3 on the 2010 Best New and the only Jack Nicklaus Signature Course on Lake Courses You Can Play list compiled by GOLF Magazine. Michigan. Just 90 minutes from Chicago, this 18-hole, In describing the course, GOLF Magazine said, "One public Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course reflects of the year's feel-good stories is this short but stern the high standards of the world’s leading design Jack Nicklaus Signature design that weaves through firm, Nicklaus Design. After successfully hosting hardwoods, marshland and the massive white sand dunes the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship in 2012, that edge Lake Michigan on holes 7, 8 and 9." 2014 and 2016, Harbor Shores will again play host in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024. The course runs over four remarkably diverse terrains that challenge golfers even as it offers a spectacular setting in which to play. The beginning holes, 1-6, are in the Inland terrain. Holes 7, 8, and 9 are in a Dunes terrain with dramatic views of Lake Michigan. Holes 10-13 are in our Woodlands terrains, 79th KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship – Dimensions of Harbor Shores, Benton Harbor, Michigan 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 3,518 539 144 412 197 450 549 422 201 420 3,334 6,852 KITCHENAID SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY PGA MEDIA GUIDE 2018 | 3 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 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship players tied at 74 after first 18 holes; celebrates its 79th edition in 2018. The Championship was Hackbarth had a 74 to Hutchison’s 75 on the final 18 holes. born in 1937 on the grounds of another of golf’s majors, 1946 Eddie Williams def. Jock Hutchison (18 holes, scores at the invitation of one of the game’s greatest players. At unavailable) the suggestion of renowned amateur Bobby Jones, the 1951 Al Watrous def. Jock Hutchison (18 holes, 75 to 81) inaugural Senior PGA Championship was played at Augusta 1957 Al Watrous def.