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The Tradition
Tournament information
LocationBirmingham, Alabama
Established1989
Course(s)Shoal Creek G&CC
Par72
Length7,234 yards (6,615 m)
Tour(s)Champions Tour
FormatStroke play - 72 holes
Prize fund$2,200,000
Month playedJune
Current champion
United States Tom Lehman

The Tradition is one of the five major championships recognized by the U.S.-based Champions Tour, the world's leading tour for professional golfers aged fifty and older. The inaugural event was staged in 1989.

Unlike the U.S. Senior Open and the Senior PGA Championship and the Senior British Open, it is not recognized as a major by the European Seniors Tour, and is not part of that tour's official schedule. Unlike the mainstream major championships, some of the senior majors have title sponsors, and at present The Tradition is officially known as the "Regions Tradition". It is the only senior major where the winner does not earn an exemption into a PGA Tour or European Tour event.

Locations

Arizona

From its inception in 1989 through 2001, the tournament was held at the Cochise Golf Course of the Golf Club at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 2002 the tournament was held at the The Prospector Course of Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club Superstition Mountain, Arizona.[1]

Oregon

From 2003 through 2006, it was held at the South Course of The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in Aloha, Oregon, just west of Portland.

In 2007 the tournament moved to the high desert of central Oregon, to the Crosswater Club in Sunriver. The lengthy course sits on 600 acres (240 ha) of woodlands and preserved wetlands along the Deschutes River, at an elevation of 4,170 feet (1,271 m) above sea level. The par-72 layout played at 7,316 yards (6,690 m) in 2009.

NBC-TV carried the weekend coverage of the tournament in 2007, 2009 and 2010. The Golf Channel covered the early rounds (and all four rounds in 2008 while NBC carried the Olympic Games from Beijing).

Alabama

Following the 2010 event, Birmingham, Alabama-based Regions Financial Corporation announced in August that it was taking over sponsorship of the tournament, and as a result it was moving the tournament in 2011 to the Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club in the Shoal Creek development south of Birmingham. [2] The Tradition superseded the Regions Charity Classic, a regular Champions Tour event which had been played since 1992 when it began as the Bruno's Memorial Classic.[3] Shoal Creek has previously hosted two PGA Championships, in 1984 and 1990. The tournament was held May 5-8, 2011, with associated events starting on May 2.[4] The event was held June 7-10 in 2012.

Winners

Year Champion Country Course Location
Regions Tradition
2012 Tom Lehman  United States Shoal Creek G&CC Shoal Creek, Alabama
2011 Tom Lehman  United States Shoal Creek G&CC Shoal Creek, Alabama
JELD-WEN Tradition
2010 Fred Funk (2)  United States Crosswater Club Sunriver, Oregon
2009 Mike Reid  United States
2008 Fred Funk  United States
2007 Mark McNulty  Zimbabwe
 Ireland
2006 Eduardo Romero  Argentina The Reserve Vineyards & G.C. Aloha, Oregon
2005 Loren Roberts  United States
2004 Craig Stadler  United States
2003 Tom Watson  United States
The Countrywide Tradition
2002 Jim Thorpe  United States Superstition Mountain G&CC
(Prospector course)		 Superstition Mountain, Arizona
2001 Doug Tewell  United States Golf Club at Desert Mountain
(Cochise course)		 Scottsdale, Arizona
2000 Tom Kite  United States
The Tradition presented by Countrywide
1999 Graham Marsh  Australia Golf Club at Desert Mountain
(Cochise course)		 Scottsdale, Arizona
1998 Gil Morgan (2)  United States
1997 Gil Morgan  United States
The Tradition
1996 Jack Nicklaus (4)  United States Golf Club at Desert Mountain
(Cochise course)		 Scottsdale, Arizona
1995 Jack Nicklaus (3)  United States
1994 Raymond Floyd  United States
1993 Tom Shaw  United States
1992 Lee Trevino  United States
The Tradition at Desert Mountain
1991 Jack Nicklaus (2)  United States Golf Club at Desert Mountain
(Cochise course)		 Scottsdale, Arizona
1990 Jack Nicklaus  United States
1989 Don Bies  United States

Multiple winners

Only three men have multiple wins in The Tradition (through 2011):

References

  1. ^ The Countrywide Tradition moves to a new home
  2. ^ al.com - How the Regions Tradition came to Shoal Creek - 2011-05-04
  3. ^ Shoal Creek will host Regions Tradition in 2011
  4. ^ Tomberlin, Michael (October 13, 2010). "PGA releases logo for Regions Tradition tournament to be played at Shoal Creek". The Birmingham News.
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