Seiko-Tucson Senior Match Play Championship
Encyclopedia
The Seiko-Tucson Match Play Championship was a golf
tournament on the Champions Tour
from 1984 to 1986. It was played in Tucson, Arizona
at the Randolph Park Municipal Golf Club. It was played using a match play
format instead of the more common stroke play
. A PGA Tour
event (Seiko-Tucson Match Play Championship) was played concurrently at the same location.
The purse for the 1986 tournament was US$300,000, with $75,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1984 as the Seiko-Tucson Senior Match Play Championship.
Seiko-Tucson Senior Match Play Championship
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 1984 to 1986. It was played in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
at the Randolph Park Municipal Golf Club. It was played using a match play
Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
format instead of the more common stroke play
Stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf. It involves counting the total number of strokes taken on each hole during a given round, or series of rounds...
. A PGA Tour
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
event (Seiko-Tucson Match Play Championship) was played concurrently at the same location.
The purse for the 1986 tournament was US$300,000, with $75,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1984 as the Seiko-Tucson Senior Match Play Championship.
Winners
Seiko-Tucson Match Play Championship- 1986 Don JanuaryDon JanuaryDonald Ray January is an American professional golfer.January was born in Plainview, Texas, and graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas...
Seiko-Tucson Senior Match Play Championship
- 1985 Harold HenningHarold HenningHarold Henning was a South African professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour....
- 1984 Gene LittlerGene LittlerGene Alec Littler is an American professional golfer. Known for a solid temperament and nicknamed "Gene the Machine" for his smooth rhythmical swing, he once said that, "Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the best misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes."-Early years...