The Tradition

The Tradition
Tournament information
Location	Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Established	1989, 33 years ago
Course(s)	Greystone Golf and Country Club,; Founders Course
Par	72
Length	7,277 yards (6,654 m)
Tour(s)	PGA Tour Champions
Format	Stroke play - 72 holes
Prize fund	$2,750,000
Month played	May
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Doug Tewell (2001)
To par	−23 as above
Current champion
	Alex Čejka
Location Map
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The Tradition (known as the Regions Tradition for sponsorship reasons) is an event on the PGA Tour Champions. First staged 33 years ago in 1989, the PGA Tour recognizes the event as one of the five senior major golf championships. Unlike the U.S. Senior Open, Senior PGA Championship and Senior Open Championship, it is not recognized as a major by the European Senior Tour, and is not part of that tour's official schedule. 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 in Arizona at the Cochise Golf Course of the Golf Club at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale. In 2002, it was held at the Prospector Course of Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club near Gold Canyon.^[2] While in Arizona, the event was played in early April.

Oregon[]

In 2003, the event relocated to northwest Oregon for four years at the South Course of The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in Aloha, just west of Portland. Following the 2006 edition, it moved to the high desert of central Oregon for four years, to the Crosswater Club in Sunriver, south of Bend. The lengthy course sits on 600 acres (2.4 km²) of woodlands and preserved wetlands along the Deschutes River, at an average elevation of 4,170 feet (1,270 m) above sea level. The par-72 layout played at 7,316 yards (6,690 m) in 2009. During the eight years in Oregon, the event was held in mid- to late August.

Alabama[]

Following the 2010 event, Birmingham, Alabama–based Regions Financial Corporation announced in August that it was taking over sponsorship of the tournament. For five years, the event was played at the Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club in the Shoal Creek development, southeast of Birmingham. ^[3] The Tradition superseded the Regions Charity Classic, a regular Champions Tour event which began in 1992 as the Bruno's Memorial Classic.^[4] Shoal Creek previously hosted two PGA Championships, in 1984 and 1990.

Since moving to Alabama in 2011, the event has been played in May and June. It moved from Shoal Creek to the nearby Greystone Golf and Country Club in 2016, and is held on the recently renovated Founders Course.

Winners[]

Year	Champion	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Venue	Winner's share ($)
Regions Tradition
2021	Alex Čejka	270	−18	Playoff	Steve Stricker	Greystone Founders course	375,000
2020	Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019	Steve Stricker	270	−18	6 strokes	Billy Andrade Paul Goydos David Toms	Greystone Founders course	360,000
2018	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	269	−19	3 strokes	Joe Durant Gene Sauers Steve Stricker	Greystone Founders course	360,000
2017	Bernhard Langer (2)	268	−20	5 strokes	Scott Parel Scott McCarron	Greystone Founders course	345,000
2016	Bernhard Langer	271	−17	6 strokes	Olin Browne	Greystone Founders course	345,000
2015	Jeff Maggert	274	−14	Playoff	Kevin Sutherland	Shoal Creek	345,000
2014	Kenny Perry	281	−7	1 stroke	Mark Calcavecchia	Shoal Creek	330,000
2013	David Frost	272	−16	1 stroke	Fred Couples	Shoal Creek	335,000
2012	Tom Lehman (2)	274	−14	2 strokes	Bernhard Langer Lu Chien-soon	Shoal Creek	335,000
2011	Tom Lehman	275	−13	Playoff	Peter Senior	Shoal Creek	330,000
JELD–WEN Tradition
2010	Fred Funk (2)	276	−12	1 stroke	Michael Allen Lu Chien-soon	Crosswater Club	392,000
2009	Mike Reid	272	−16	Playoff	John Cook	Crosswater Club	392,000
2008	Fred Funk	269	−19	3 strokes	Mike Goodes	Crosswater Club	392,000
2007	Mark McNulty	272	−16	5 strokes	David Edwards	Crosswater Club	390,000
2006	Eduardo Romero	275	−13	Playoff	Lonnie Nielsen	The Reserve South course	375,000
2005	Loren Roberts	273	−15	Playoff	Dana Quigley	The Reserve South course	375,000
2004	Craig Stadler	275	−13	1 stroke	Allen Doyle Jerry Pate	The Reserve South course	345,000
2003	Tom Watson	273	−15	1 stroke	Jim Ahern Tom Kite	The Reserve South course	330,000
The Countrywide Tradition
2002	Jim Thorpe	277	−11	Playoff	John Jacobs	Superstition Mountain Prospector course	300,000
2001	Doug Tewell	265	−23	9 strokes	Mike McCullough	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	255,000
2000	Tom Kite	280	−8	Playoff	Larry Nelson Tom Watson	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	240,000
The Tradition presented by Countrywide
1999	Graham Marsh	136^[a]	−8	3 strokes	Larry Nelson	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	225,000
1998	Gil Morgan (2)	276	−12	2 strokes	Tom Wargo	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	210,000
1997	Gil Morgan	266	−22	6 strokes	Isao Aoki	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	180,000
The Tradition
1996	Jack Nicklaus (4)	272	−16	3 strokes	Hale Irwin	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	150,000
1995	Jack Nicklaus (3)	276	−12	Playoff	Isao Aoki	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	150,000
1994	Raymond Floyd	271	−17	Playoff	Dale Douglass	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	127,500
1993	Tom Shaw	269	−19	1 stroke	Mike Hill	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	127,500
1992	Lee Trevino	274	−14	1 stroke	Jack Nicklaus	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	120,000
The Tradition at Desert Mountain
1991	Jack Nicklaus (2)	277	−11	1 stroke	Jim Colbert Jim Dent Phil Rodgers	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	120,000
1990	Jack Nicklaus	206^[b]	−10	4 strokes	Gary Player	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	120,000
1989	Don Bies	275	−13	1 stroke	Gary Player	Golf Club at Desert Mountain Cochise course	90,000

^ Shortened to 36 holes due to snow.
^ Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.

Multiple winners[]

Through 2021, five men have multiple wins in the Tradition:

4 wins:
- Jack Nicklaus: 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996
2 wins:
- Gil Morgan: 1997, 1998
- Fred Funk: 2008, 2010
- Tom Lehman: 2011, 2012
- Bernhard Langer: 2016, 2017

References[]

^ "Course map". Regions Tradition. 2016. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
^ The Countrywide Tradition moves to a new home
^ al.com - How the Regions Tradition came to Shoal Creek - 2011-05-04
^ Shoal Creek will host Regions Tradition in 2011

External links[]

Official website
Coverage on the PGA Tour Champions's official site
Greystone Golf and Country Club – official site – current venue

Coordinates: 33°25′46″N 86°39′03″W / 33.4294°N 86.6508°W / 33.4294; -86.6508

[5] Shortened to 36 holes due to snow.

[6] Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.

[rtcsmp-1] "Course map". Regions Tradition. 2016. Retrieved May 22, 2016.

[2] The Countrywide Tradition moves to a new home

[3] .com - How the Regions Tradition came to Shoal Creek - 2011-05-04

[4] Shoal Creek will host Regions Tradition in 2011

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