MasterCard Classic (Champions Tour)
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The MasterCard Classic was a golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 tournament on the Champions Tour
Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...

 from 2000 to 2004. It was played in late February/early March in Mexico
Mexico
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, first in Puebla
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 for two years and then in the Mexico City
Mexico City
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 area. It was the first Champions Tour event in Mexico.

The purse for the 2004 tournament was US$2,000,000, with $300,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 2000 as the Audi Senior Classic.

Winners

  • 2004 Ed Fiori
    Ed Fiori
    Edward Ray Fiori is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour.Fiori was born in Lynwood, California. As a youth, Fiori would sneak through a barbed wire fence to a nine-hole course near his Downey, California home to practice his game. He attended the...

  • 2003 David Eger
    David Eger
    David Benjamin Eger is an American professional golfer on the Champions Tour.Eger was born in Fort Meade, Maryland. He attended the University of North Carolina, and later East Tennessee State University...



Audi Senior Classic
  • 2002 Bruce Lietzke
    Bruce Lietzke
    Bruce Alan Lietzke is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.Lietzke was born in Kansas City, Kansas...



Mexico Senior Classic
  • 2001 Mike McCullough


Audi Senior Classic
  • 2000 Hubert Green
    Hubert Green
    Hubert Myatt Green is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level....


See also

  • Puerto Vallarta Blue Agave Golf Classic
    Puerto Vallarta Blue Agave Golf Classic
    The Puerto Vallarta Blue Agave Golf Classic was a Champions Tour golf tournament played only in 2006. It was played at the Vista Vallarta Club de Golf in the resort of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico over a course which was designed by Jack Nicklaus. It was the only Champions Tour event in Mexico in 2006,...

     - the former Champions Tour event in Mexico
  • MasterCard Classic
    MasterCard Classic
    The MasterCard Classic Honoring Alejo Peralta was a golf tournament for professional female golfers, played on the LPGA Tour. It was played each year between 2005 and 2009 at Bosque Real Country Club in Mexico City, Mexico.-Winners:...

     - the LPGA Tour event in Mexico
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