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Dates: Friday, May 18th through Sunday, May 20th
Site: Tiffany Greens Golf Club, Kansas City, Missouri
Course Architect: Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (1997)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,820
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 5 510 Yds 10 - Par 3 180 Yds
2 - Par 4 385 Yds 11 - Par 5 530 Yds
3 - Par 4 410 Yds 12 - Par 4 410 Yds
4 - Par 3 190 Yds 13 - Par 4 400 Yds
5 - Par 4 370 Yds 14 - Par 4 370 Yds
6 - Par 3 210 Yds 15 - Par 3 165 Yds
7 - Par 4 410 Yds 16 - Par 5 505 Yds
8 - Par 4 410 Yds 17 - Par 4 395 Yds
9 - Par 5 550 Yds 18 - Par 4 420 Yds
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36 3,445 Yds 36 3,375 Yds
Annual: 15th
Defending Champion: Dana Quigley
Runner-Up: Tom Watson
Tournament Record: 193 (Gibby Gilbert, 1992)
36-Hole Record: 127 (Gibby Gilbert, 1992)
Course Record: 61 (Jim Colbert, 2000)
9-Hole Record: 28 (Jim Colbert, 2000)
Total Purse: $1,500,000
Shares: 1st Place - $225,000; 2nd Place - 132,000; 3rd Place - 108,000
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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Dana Quigley 198 Jim Thorpe 205
Tom Watson 199 Tom McGinnis 206
Jim Colbert 201 Jim Albus 206
David Lundstrom 202 Mike McCullough 206
Bruce Summerhays 203 Fred Gibson 206
Past TD Waterhouse Championship Winners and Runners-up
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2000 -- Dana Quigley (198) -- Tom Watson
1999 -- Allen Doyle (198) -- Ed Dougherty
1998 -- Larry Ziegler (208) -- Tom Shaw
1997 -- *Bruce Summerhays (199) -- Hugh Baiocchi
1996 -- Dave Eichelberger (200) -- Jim Colbert
1995 -- Bob Murphy (195) -- Jim Colbert
1994 -- Jim Colbert (196) -- Isao Aoki
1993 -- Dave Stockton (204) -- Larry Mowry, Walter Zembriski
1992 -- Gibby Gilbert (193) -- Jim Colbert
1991 -- Jim Colbert (201) -- Al Geiberger, Larry Laoretti
1990 -- Jimmy Powell (208) -- Jim Dent, Terry Dill, Mike Hill, Rives McBee
1989 -- *Bobby Nichols (209) -- Orville Moody
1988 -- *Gary Player (203) -- Harold Henning
1987 -- Chi Chi Rodriguez (200) -- Bruce Crampton
* - Won in Playoff.
Note: Formerly called Silver Pages Classic (1987), Southwestern Bell
Classic (1988-94), VFW Senior Championship (1995-96), Saint
Luke's Classic (1997-98).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Dana Quigley - Defending champion, 14th on money list, 4 top-10's
Jose M. Canizares - Has posted eight top-10 finishes in 13 events, 1 win
Jim Colbert - 8th on money list with a win, a second and a third
Allen Doyle - Leads Senior PGA Tour with 11 top-10's in 13 events
Vicente Fernandez - Lost in finals of last week's Match Play Championship
Hale Irwin - Finished 3rd at last week's event, 2 wins in 2001
Gil Morgan - Has finished in the top-10 in 7 of 10 events, 1 win
Andy North - Former U.S. Open champion has only 2 top-10's this year
Doug Tewell - 10th on money list with a win and four top-10 finishes
Lee Trevino - 2nd on the all-time Senior wins list, always a contender
Tom Watson - Lost in quarterfinals last week, 2nd last year
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Hale Irwin
Darkhorse - Stewart Ginn
Last week's Pick to Win (Tom Watson) - Finished tied for 9th
Last week's Darkhorse (John Mahaffey) - Finished tied for 36th
NOTES:
Two shots back of second-round leader Jim Colbert heading into last
year's final round, Dana Quigley carded a six-under 66 to post his fourth
career Senior Tour win, defeating the hard-charging Tom Watson by one shot.
Colbert, who opened with a course-record 61, could do no better than 71 on
Sunday and finished third. Watson started the day six shots back, but
fashioned a nine-under 63 to finish alone in second. Colbert saw his
advantage slip away with a double-bogey on the par-three 13th. Colbert is
the only two-time winner in the event's 14-year history and has also
finished second three times. In nine events, Colbert has seven top-10s and
has never finished out of the top-20. He is also the all-time leading money
winner at this event ($533,959) and has a scoring average of 67.74. Playing in
the final threesome, Quigley led Watson by one shot with one hole to play.
With Watson waiting to tap in his 18-inch birdie putt on 18, Quigley made a
12-footer for birdie to secure the win and defeat the local legend. Watson's
appearance last year was his first in a competitive event in his hometown
since his fourth Missouri Amateur in 1971. Colbert, a 20-time winner on the
elder circuit, made eight straight birdies on the back nine, tying the Senior
Tour record set by Chi Chi Rodriguez at this event in 1987. Colbert had a
chance to break the record on the final hole, but missed a 12-foot birdie
putt. This is the third straight year in which Tiffany Greens is hosting the
tournament. Last year, the par-four 18th played as the hardest hole with a
scoring average of 4.224, yielding just 20 birdies. Loch Lloyd Country Club
had hosted this event from 1991-98, while Quail Creek Golf & Country Club in
Oklahoma City was the tournament host the first four years. The purse was
increased by $200,000 from last year. There have been four wire-to-wire
winners of this event: Chi Chi Rodriguez in 1987, Colbert in 1991, Gibby
Gilbert in 1992 and Dave Stockton in 1993. There have been five holes-in-one
in tournament history, but none at this venue. Dick Hendrickson and Tommy
Aaron were the last players to record an ace (1994). The Senior Tour moves to
New Jersey next week for the season's second major, the Senior PGA
Championship at Ridgewood Country Club, where Doug Tewell will defend his
title. Tewell won the first major, The Tradition earlier this year.
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