THOUGHTS OF A SEPTUAGENARIAN. One thing that has changed over my now 72 years on terra firma is the Professional Golfers’ Association of America. Where it specifically has experienced a renaissance is for those golfers that have reached the ripe old age of 50.

In 1980 the Senior PGA Tour was established. That morphed into the Champions Tour in 2002 and is now referred to as the PGA Tour Champions.

There are only two major differences between the PGA Tour Champions and PGA Tour. The first is that players can choose to use golf carts to traverse the course with a propensity of them taking advantage of that especially those that are approaching their septuagenarian years. The second is that the 28 Champions Tour tournaments last 54 holes over three days instead of the PGA 72 hole events over four days. There are five exceptions for the Champions Tour that are 72 hole four day events and are designated the five senior majors which starts with The Tradition then the Senior PGA Championship followed by U.S. Senior Open before moving to the Senior Players Championship culminating with The Senior British Open.

Finally, these guys aren’t playing for peanuts. The leading career money leader is Bernhard Langer who has pocketed just short of $36 million. Not bad at all.

All of the above are exceptional for an entity that didn’t even come into existence until I was 27. The big reason that the Champions Tour thrives is these guys can still play.

Book it Dano!