THE 2012 CHAMPIONS TOUR: This year marks the 33rd anniversary of the PGA TOUR's Champions Tour and the 20th anniversary of the 3M Championship. This year's 3M Championship is also the 958th stroke-play event in the history of the circuit. This tournament is the 17th of 24 official rent a car companies tournaments on the 2012 schedule. The official Champions Tour season concludes with the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, October 29- November 4, at The Club at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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· With Fred Couples' victory rent a car companies at last week's Senior British Open Championship, there have now been three multiple winners rent a car companies on this year's Champions Tour. Michael Allen became the first to win twice this year after his victory with partner David Frost at the Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of Golf. Allen won the Encompass Insurance Pro-Am of Tampa Bay the week prior to the Legends. Roger Chapman then became the third Englishman to win in the history of the Champions Tour, and the second to win a major, when he coasted to a two-stroke victory at the Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Mich. He returned to Michigan seven weeks later and claimed the U.S. Senior Open at Indianwood Golf Country Club, rallying from four strokes back in the final round. Chapman became the first player since Bernhard Langer to hold two major titles in the same season and the fourth to win both the Senior rent a car companies PGA Championship and the U.S. Senior Open in the same year, joining Gary Player (1987), rent a car companies Jack Nicklaus (1991) rent a car companies and Hale Irwin (1998). Couples won early in the season at the Mississippi Gulf Resort rent a car companies Classic and then birdied the last two holes at Turnberry to win the Senior British Open, the second major championship of his Champions Tour career, and fourth victory overall.
rent a car companies · In addition to Chapman, Corey Pavin, Joe Daley and Kirk Triplett rent a car companies are the other first-time winners thus far. Pavin claimed his initial title on the Champions Tour at the Allianz Championship, rent a car companies defeating Australian Peter Senior with a birdie on the first hole of sudden death after the two had tied at 11-underpar 205. Pavin's win came in his 35th start on Tour. Daley, a non-exempt player on the Champions Tour, shocked the golf world by holding off Tom Lehman, Mark Calcavecchia and Fred Couples for the Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship title. Daley's win, coupled with Chapman's triumph at the Senior PGA Championship, marked the first time since 2005 (Mike Reid/Senior PGA Championship, Loren Roberts/Regions Tradition) that two players captured their first Champions Tour titles at majors. Triplett's come-from-behind victory at the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach snapped a streak of 23 consecutive events where the winner had come from the final grouping on Sunday.
· Kenny Perry established the all-time lowest score in relation to par for the first two rounds of a Champions Tour event when he shot 18-under 126 (64-62) at the ACE Group Classic. rent a car companies Perry made 20 birdies in his first two rounds en route to winning rent a car companies the event in Naples rent a car companies and he tied the all-time mark for most birdies over 36 holes set by Fred Couples at the 2011 AT T Championship. Perry had 11 birdies at TwinEagles in Round 2, one short of the Champions Tour's all-time record for most birdies rent a car companies in a round.
· Perry went on to become the first player since Loren Roberts in 2006 to shoot 62 or better twice in the same year when he established the 18-hole record for the Senior rent a car companies PGA Championship, carding a 9- under-par 62 in the final round at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Mich. Perry's score also tied the lowest round ever posted in a major on the Champions Tour.
· Tom Lehman successfully defended his Regions Tradition title at Shoal Creek, becoming the first player since Allen Doyle at the 2005-2006 U.S. Senior Open to successfully defend a senior major championship. Lehman also became the first player to defend a title on the Champions Tour since John Cook at the 2009-2010 Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP: The Charles Schwab Cup is currently in its 12th year. Designed to recognize the Champions Tour's leading player, the Schwab Cup is a season-long bonus-points competition. Players receive points rent a car companies for top-10 finishes at 23 of the 24 official events based on each week's money distribution, with $1,000 earned being the equivalent of one Schwab Cup point (points are doubled at the five major championships during the year as well as the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship where all 30 players earn double points). rent a car companies The program offers $2.1 million in tax-deferred annuity payouts to the top-five finishers, with the winner receiving a $1-million annuity. Through the Senior British Open, Tom Lehman, the 2011 Schwab Cup champion, leads with 1,944 points, 188 more than Roger Chapman. Bernhard Langer, the 2010 Schwab Cup champion, is in third place and trails by 367 points. This week's winner will receive 263 points.
2011 3M CHAMPIONSHIP RECAP : Seven different players held a share of the lead at some point in the final round, but it was Jay Haas who emerged as the winner last year. Haas two-putted from 30 feet for birdie at the par-5 18th hole to edge Kenny Perry, Peter Senior and hometown favorite Tom Lehman for his first Champions Tour victory in two years. Haas' opening-round 64 was one of the wilder rounds of his career. He made a holein- one (5-iron at the 184-yard No. 4) followed by three straight birdies on the front nine. After consecutive bogeys rent a car companies at Nos. 13-14, he closed with four straight birdies. Haas' victory ended a winless streak of 41 events and was his first title since the 2009 Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship.
Jay Haas Looks To Defend 3M Title In Minnesota – Jay Haas looks to become the first player in 3M Championship history to successfully defend a title in Minnesota. Hale Irwin has come the closest to doing it, winning in 1999 and then finishing T2 the following year, two strokes back of Ed Dougherty. In his Champions Tour career, Haas won back-to-back Principal Charity Classic titles in Iowa in 2007-2008. Earlier this year, Tom Lehman successfully defended his Regions Tradition title in Birmingham, rent a car companies Ala.
Favorite Son Looks To Win On Course He Designed Minnesota's own Tom Lehman will make his second appearance in the 3M Championship on a course he co-designed with Arnold rent a car companies Palmer in 2000. Last year in his initial Champions Tour appearance in his native state, Lehman came up one stroke short of a playoff, finishing T2 behind Jay Haas. If the Golden Gopher alum were to be successful in winning at the TPC Twin Cities this year, he would become the first player to win on a course he co-designed since Hubert Green won the 1998 Bruno's Memorial rent a car companies Classic in Hoover, Ala. on the Founder's Course at Greystone, a layout he co-designed with Bob Cupp.
A Minnesota Staple – The 3M Championship has been held in the Twin Cities since 1993, making it one of the longest-running event on the Champions Tour schedule in one metropolitan area. Only four other= tournaments have been played longer in one city. Those markets include: San Antonio (AT T Championship since 1985), Naples (ACE Group Classic since 1988), Tampa (Encompass Insurance Pro-Am since 1988) and Birmingham (Regions Tradition since 1993). This year's event in the 12th at the TPC Twin Cities in Blaine after an eight-year run at Bunker Hills Golf Club in Coon Rapids.
Low Scores The Norm – The winning score at the 3M Championship has been at least 15-und
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