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Formerly | European Seniors Tour Staysure Tour |
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Sport | Golf |
Founded | 1992 |
CEO | Phil Harrison |
Countries | Based in Europe [lower-alpha 1] |
Most titles | Order of Merit titles:![]() Tournament wins: ![]() |
TV partner(s) | Sky Sports (UK) |
Related competitions | European Tour |
Official website | https://www.legendstour.com/ |
The European Senior Tour, currently branded as the Legends Tour, [1] is a professional golf tour for male golfers aged 50 and over, run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was titled as the Staysure Tour for the 2018 and 2019 seasons after UK-based insurance company Staysure became the first title sponsors of the senior tour in December 2017. [2] The tour was relaunched as the Legends Tour [3] [4] in 2020, after Ryan Howsam, founder and owner of Staysure, took majority ownership in a joint venture with the European Tour.
The Tour was founded in 1992 after calls from 60 leading professionals five years after the first Senior Open Championship in 1987. The highest profile event in Europe is the Senior British Open Championship, which is co-sanctioned by PGA Tour Champions and was played on the Old Course at St Andrews for the first time in 2018. The European Tour co-sanctions the Senior PGA Championship and the U.S. Senior Open. Prize money in the latter does not count towards the Order of Merit, but since 2007 the former has been an official money event. [5]
Year | Winner | Points |
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2023 | ![]() | 4,161 |
2022 | ![]() | 2,845 |
2021 | ![]() | 1,830 |
2020 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |
2019 | ![]() | 2,888 |
Year | Winner | Prize money (€) |
2018 | ![]() | 547,793 |
2017 | ![]() | 222,055 |
2016 | ![]() | 399,285 |
2015 | ![]() | 679,147 |
2014 | ![]() | 624,543 |
2013 | ![]() | 311,644 |
2012 | ![]() | 356,751 |
2011 | ![]() | 302,327 |
2010 | ![]() | 266,609 |
2009 | ![]() | 170,696 |
2008 | ![]() | 320,120 |
2007 | ![]() | 412,376 |
2006 | ![]() | 347,525 |
2005 | ![]() | 277,421 |
2004 | ![]() | 354,775 |
2003 | ![]() | 350,242 |
2002 | ![]() | 330,211 |
2001 | ![]() | 287,025 |
2000 | ![]() | 163,164 |
1999 | ![]() | 138,943 |
Year | Winner | Prize money (£) |
1998 | ![]() | 127,656 |
1997 | ![]() | 158,427 |
1996 | ![]() | 133,195 |
1995 | ![]() | 63,620 |
1994 | ![]() | 57,209 |
1993 | ![]() | 56,935 |
1992 | ![]() | 47,856 |
Source: [6]
The table below shows the top ten career money leaders on the European Senior Tour as of the end of the 2018 season.
Rank | Player | Prize money (€) |
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1 | ![]() | 2,811,071 |
2 | ![]() | 2,757,126 |
3 | ![]() | 1,943,628 |
4 | ![]() | 1,653,634 |
5 | ![]() | 1,652,178 |
6 | ![]() | 1,571,534 |
7 | ![]() | 1,570,663 |
8 | ![]() | 1,560,985 |
9 | ![]() | 1,527,506 |
10 | ![]() | 1,472,192 |
There is a full list that is updated after each tournament on the European Tour's website here.
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