2002 Senior PGA Tour


The 2002 Senior PGA Tour was the 23rd season since the Senior PGA Tour officially began in 1980. This was the last season for the tour under its original name; it would be renamed as the Champions Tour for its next season in 2003, and since 2016 has been known as PGA Tour Champions. The season consisted of 35 official money events with purses totalling $58,205,000, including four majors. Bob Gilder and Hale Irwin won the most tournaments, four. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 2002 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold.
DateTournamentLocationPurse WinnerScore1st prize
Jan 20MasterCard ChampionshipHawaii1,500,000 Tom Kite 199 258,000
Feb 3Royal Caribbean ClassicFlorida1,450,000 John Jacobs 133 217,500
Feb 10ACE Group ClassicFlorida1,500,000 Hale Irwin 200 225,000
Feb 17Verizon ClassicFlorida1,500,000 Doug Tewell 203 225,000
Feb 24Audi Senior ClassicMexico1,700,000 Bruce Lietzke 208 255,000
Mar 3SBC Senior ClassicCalifornia1,450,000 Tom Kite 212 217,500
Mar 10Toshiba Senior ClassicCalifornia1,500,000 Hale Irwin 197 225,000
Mar 17Siebel Classic in Silicon ValleyCalifornia1,400,000 Dana Quigley 212 210,000
Mar 31Emerald Coast ClassicFlorida1,450,000 Dave Eichelberger 135 217,500
Apr 7Liberty Mutual Legends of GolfFlorida2,505,000 Doug Tewell 205 306,000
Apr 28The Countrywide TraditionArizona2,000,000 Jim Thorpe 277 300,000
May 5Bruno's Memorial ClassicAlabama1,400,000 Sammy Rachels 201 210,000
May 12TD Waterhouse ChampionshipMissouri1,600,000 Bruce Lietzke 133 240,000
May 19The Instinet ClassicNew Jersey1,500,000 Isao Aoki 201 225,000
May 26Farmers Charity ClassicMichigan1,500,000 Jay Sigel 203 225,000
Jun 2NFL Golf ClassicNew Jersey1,300,000 James Mason 207 195,000
Jun 9Senior PGA ChampionshipOhio2,000,000 Fuzzy Zoeller 278 360,000
Jun 16BellSouth Senior Classic at OprylandTennessee1,600,000 Gil Morgan 202 240,000
Jun 23Greater Baltimore ClassicMaryland1,450,000 J. C. Snead 203 217,500
Jun 30U.S. Senior OpenMaryland2,500,000 Don Pooley 274 450,000
Jul 7AT&T Canada Senior Open ChampionshipCanada1,600,000 Tom Jenkins 195 240,000
Jul 14Ford Senior Players ChampionshipMichigan2,500,000 Stewart Ginn 274 375,000
Jul 21SBC Senior OpenIllinois1,450,000 Bob Gilder 204 217,500
Jul 28FleetBoston ClassicMassachusetts1,500,000 Bob Gilder 203 225,000
Aug 4Lightpath Long Island ClassicNew York1,700,000 Hubert Green 199 255,000
Aug 113M ChampionshipMinnesota1,750,000 Hale Irwin 204 262,500
Aug 25Uniting Fore Care ClassicUtah1,500,000 Morris Hatalsky 24 225,000
Sep 1Allianz ChampionshipIowa1,850,000 Bob Gilder 200 277,500
Sep 8Kroger Senior ClassicOhio1,500,000 Bob Gilder 200 225,000
Sep 15RJR ChampionshipNorth Carolina1,600,000 Bruce Fleisher 191 240,000
Sep 22SAS ChampionshipNorth Carolina1,700,000 Bruce Lietzke 202 255,000
Oct 6Turtle Bay ChampionshipHawaii1,500,000 Hale Irwin 208 225,000
Oct 13Napa Valley ChampionshipCalifornia1,300,000 Tom Kite 204 195,000
Oct 20SBC ChampionshipTexas1,450,000 Dana Quigley 201 217,500
Oct 27Senior Tour Championship at Gaillardia Oklahoma2,500,000 Tom Watson 274 440,000

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Leaders

Scoring Average leaders
RankPlayerCountryAverage
1Hale Irwin68.93
2Tom Watson69.57
3Tom Kite69.64
4Bruce Fleisher69.73
5Morris Hatalsky69.85

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Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings EventsWins
1Hale Irwin3,028,304274
2Bob Gilder2,367,637344
3Bruce Fleisher1,860,534311
4Tom Kite1,631,930233
5Doug Tewell1,579,988272

Source:
Career Money List leaders
RankPlayerCountryEarnings Wins
1Hale Irwin16,950,17836
2Gil Morgan11,092,59321
3Jim Colbert10,840,37420
4Dave Stockton9,735,81414
5Lee Trevino9,616,40429

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Awards