Golf tour season
The 1999 Senior PGA Tour was the 20th season of the Senior PGA Tour , the main professional golf tour in the United States for men aged 50 and over.
The following table lists official events during the 1999 season.[ 1] [ 2]
Date Tournament Location Purse (US$ ) Winner[ a] Notes Jan 24 MasterCard Championship Hawaii 1,100,000 John Jacobs (2) Feb 7 Royal Caribbean Classic Florida 1,000,000 Bruce Fleisher (1) Feb 14 American Express Invitational Florida 1,200,000 Bruce Fleisher (2) Feb 21 GTE Classic Florida 1,200,000 Larry Nelson (4) Feb 28 ACE Group Classic Florida 1,200,000 Allen Doyle (1) Mar 14 Toshiba Senior Classic California 1,200,000 Gary McCord (1) Mar 28 Emerald Coast Classic Florida 1,100,000 Bob Duval (1) Apr 4 The Tradition Arizona 1,500,000 Graham Marsh (6) Senior PGA Tour major championship Apr 18 PGA Seniors' Championship Florida 1,750,000 Allen Doyle (2) Senior major championship Apr 25 Home Depot Invitational North Carolina 1,200,000 Bruce Fleisher (3) May 2 Bruno's Memorial Classic Alabama 1,200,000 Larry Nelson (5) May 9 Nationwide Championship Georgia 1,400,000 Hale Irwin (21) May 16 Las Vegas Senior Classic Nevada 1,400,000 Vicente Fernández (3) May 23 Bell Atlantic Classic Pennsylvania 1,100,000 Tom Jenkins (1) May 30 Boone Valley Classic Missouri 1,400,000 Hale Irwin (22) Jun 6 Cadillac NFL Golf Classic New Jersey 1,100,000 Allen Doyle (3) Jun 13 BellSouth Senior Classic Tennessee 1,400,000 Bruce Fleisher (4) Jun 20 Southwestern Bell Dominion Texas 1,100,000 John Mahaffey (1) Jun 27 Ford Senior Players Championship Michigan 2,000,000 Hale Irwin (23) Senior PGA Tour major championship Jul 4 State Farm Senior Classic Maryland 1,300,000 Christy O'Connor Jnr (1) Jul 11 U.S. Senior Open Iowa 1,500,000 Dave Eichelberger (4) Senior major championship Jul 18 Ameritech Senior Open Illinois 1,300,000 Hale Irwin (24) Jul 25 Senior British Open Northern Ireland £560,000 Christy O'Connor Jnr (2) Senior major championship [ b] Jul 25 Coldwell Banker Burnet Classic Minnesota 1,500,000 Hale Irwin (25) Aug 1 Novell Utah Showdown Utah 1,350,000 Dave Eichelberger (5) Aug 8 Lightpath Long Island Classic New York 1,200,000 Bruce Fleisher (5) Aug 15 Foremost Insurance Championship Michigan 1,000,000 Christy O'Connor Jnr (3) Aug 22 BankBoston Classic Massachusetts 1,200,000 Tom McGinnis (1) Aug 29 AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship Canada 1,350,000 Jim Ahern (1) Sep 5 TD Waterhouse Championship Missouri 1,200,000 Allen Doyle (4) Sep 12 Comfort Classic Indiana 1,200,000 Gil Morgan (14) Sep 19 Bank One Championship Texas 1,300,000 Tom Watson (1) New tournament Sep 26 Kroger Senior Classic Ohio 1,400,000 Gil Morgan (15) Oct 3 Vantage Championship North Carolina 1,500,000 Fred Gibson (1) Oct 10 The Transamerica California 1,100,000 Bruce Fleisher (6) Oct 17 Raley's Gold Rush Classic California 1,000,000 David Graham (5) Oct 24 EMC Kaanapali Classic Hawaii 1,000,000 Bruce Fleisher (7) Oct 31 Pacific Bell Senior Classic California 1,200,000 Joe Inman (2) Nov 7 Ingersoll-Rand Senior Tour Championship South Carolina 2,000,000 Gary McCord (2) Tour Championship
The following events were sanctioned by the Senior PGA Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.
The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.[ 3]
Position Player Prize money ($) 1 Bruce Fleisher 2,515,705 2 Hale Irwin 2,025,232 3 Allen Doyle 1,911,640 4 Larry Nelson 1,513,524 5 Gil Morgan 1,493,282
^ The number in parentheses after each winner's name is the number of Senior PGA Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Senior PGA Tour members. ^ Unofficial money event at the time, but retrospectively counted as an official win.