2016 PGA Tour Champions season


The 2016 PGA Tour Champions was the 37th season of PGA Tour Champions, a golf tour operated by the PGA Tour for men's golfers age 50 and over. The tour officially began in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour, and was known by that name through 2002. It then was known as the Champions Tour from 2003 through 2015, after which it was rebranded as "PGA Tour Champions".
This season was the first for a playoff system to determine the winner of the Charles Schwab Cup as season champion. The playoff, similar to that used by the regular PGA Tour for the FedEx Cup, consists of three events and ends with the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Tournament results

The following table shows the official money events for the 2016 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they will have on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold.
DateTournamentLocationPurse WinnerScoreWinner's
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Jan 23Mitsubishi Electric Championship at HualalaiHawaii1,800,000 Duffy Waldorf 198 309,000
Feb 7Allianz ChampionshipFlorida1,750,000 Esteban Toledo 205 262,500
Feb 14Chubb ClassicFlorida1,600,000 Bernhard Langer 201 240,000
Mar 20Tucson Conquistadores ClassicArizona1,700,000 Woody Austin 200 255,000
Apr 3Mississippi Gulf Resort ClassicMississippi1,600,000 Miguel Ángel Jiménez 202 240,000
Apr 17Mitsubishi Electric ClassicGeorgia1,800,000 Woody Austin 205 270,000
Apr 24Bass Pro Shops Legends of GolfMissouri2,400,000 Michael Allen &
Woody Austin 		156 230,000
each
May 8Insperity InvitationalTexas2,100,000 Jesper Parnevik 204 315,000
May 22Regions TraditionAlabama2,300,000 Bernhard Langer 271 345,000
May 29Senior PGA ChampionshipMichigan2,800,000 Rocco Mediate 265 504,000
Jun 5Principal Charity ClassicIowa1,750,000 Scott McCarron 201 262,500
Jun 12Constellation Senior Players ChampionshipPennsylvania2,800,000 Bernhard Langer 281 420,000
Jun 26American Family Insurance ChampionshipWisconsin2,000,000 Kirk Triplett 199 300,000
Jul 10Dick's Sporting Goods OpenNew York2,000,000 Paul Goydos 202 300,000
Jul 24Senior Open ChampionshipScotland2,100,000 Paul Broadhurst 277 319,090
Aug 73M ChampionshipMinnesota1,750,000 Joe Durant 197 262,500
Aug 14U.S. Senior OpenOhio3,750,000 Gene Sauers 277 675,000
Aug 28Boeing ClassicWashington2,000,000 Bernhard Langer 203 300,000
Sep 4Shaw Charity ClassicAlberta, Canada2,350,000 Carlos Franco 192 352,500
Sep 18Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble BeachCalifornia2,000,000 Paul Broadhurst 204 300,000
Sep 25Pacific Links Bear Mountain ChampionshipBritish Columbia, Canada2,500,000 Colin Montgomerie 198 375,000
Oct 9Toshiba ClassicCalifornia1,800,000 Jay Haas 197 270,000
Oct 16SAS ChampionshipNorth Carolina2,100,000 Doug Garwood 200 319,090
Oct 30PowerShares QQQ ChampionshipCalifornia2,000,000 Tom Pernice, Jr. 203 300,000
Nov 6Dominion Charity ClassicVirginia2,000,000 Scott McCarron 203 300,000
Nov 13Charles Schwab Cup ChampionshipArizona2,000,000 Paul Goydos 195 300,000

Leaders

Scoring average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Bernhard Langer68.31
2Miguel Ángel Jiménez68.90
3Kevin Sutherland69.51
4Joe Durant69.65
5Colin Montgomerie69.85

Source:
Money list leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Bernhard Langer3,016,959214
2Colin Montgomerie1,723,318221
3Joe Durant1,635,147251
4Miguel Ángel Jiménez1,613,820131
5Scott McCarron1,613,820242

Source:
Career money list leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Hale Irwin27,040,19945
2Bernhard Langer20,921,99129
3Gil Morgan20,607,41825
4Jay Haas17,310,77618
5Tom Kite16,154,45310

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Awards