European Senior Tour

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Legends Tour
Current season, competition or edition:
Golf current event.svg 2023 European Senior Tour
StaysureTourLogo.png
Legends Tour logo
FormerlyEuropean Seniors Tour
Staysure Tour
Sport Golf
Founded1992
CEO Phil Harrison
CountriesBased in Europe [lower-alpha 1]
Most titlesOrder of Merit titles:
Flag of England.svg Tommy Horton (5)
Tournament wins:
Flag of England.svg Carl Mason (25)
TV partner(s)Sky Sports (UK)
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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-ever 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.

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History

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]

Order of Merit winners

YearWinnerPoints
2023 Flag of England.svg Peter Baker 4,161
2022 Flag of South Africa.svg James Kingston 2,845
2021 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Stephen Dodd 1,830
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Phillip Price 2,888
YearWinnerPrize money ()
2018 Flag of England.svg Paul Broadhurst (2)547,793
2017 Flag of the United States.svg Clark Dennis 222,055
2016 Flag of England.svg Paul Broadhurst 399,285
2015 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Montgomerie (2)679,147
2014 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Montgomerie 624,543
2013 Flag of England.svg Paul Wesselingh 311,644
2012 Flag of England.svg Roger Chapman 356,751
2011 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Fowler 302,327
2010 Flag of Thailand.svg Boonchu Ruangkit 266,609
2009 Flag of Scotland.svg Sam Torrance (3)170,696
2008 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Ian Woosnam 320,120
2007 Flag of England.svg Carl Mason (3)412,376
2006 Flag of Scotland.svg Sam Torrance (2)347,525
2005 Flag of Scotland.svg Sam Torrance 277,421
2004 Flag of England.svg Carl Mason (2)354,775
2003 Flag of England.svg Carl Mason 350,242
2002 Flag of Japan.svg Seiji Ebihara 330,211
2001 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ian Stanley 287,025
2000 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Noel Ratcliffe 163,164
1999 Flag of England.svg Tommy Horton (5)138,943
YearWinnerPrize money (£)
1998 Flag of England.svg Tommy Horton (4)127,656
1997 Flag of England.svg Tommy Horton (3)158,427
1996 Flag of England.svg Tommy Horton (2)133,195
1995 Flag of Scotland.svg Brian Barnes 63,620
1994 Flag of England.svg John Morgan 57,209
1993 Flag of England.svg Tommy Horton 56,935
1992 Flag of South Africa (1982-1994).svg John Fourie 47,856

Source: [6]

Awards

YearRookie of the Year
2023 Flag of Sweden.svg Patrik Sjöland
2022 Flag of Brazil.svg Adilson da Silva
2021 No award
2020
2019 Flag of Scotland.svg Paul Lawrie
2018 Flag of England.svg Paul Streeter
2017 Flag of the United States.svg Clark Dennis
2016 Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Persson Atlevi
2015 Flag of England.svg Paul Broadhurst
2014 Flag of Argentina.svg César Monasterio
2013 Flag of Denmark.svg Steen Tinning
2012 Flag of England.svg Paul Wesselingh
2011 Flag of England.svg Gary Wolstenholme
2010 Flag of Thailand.svg Boonchu Ruangkit
2009 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mike Harwood
2008 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Ian Woosnam
2007 Flag of Italy.svg Costantino Rocca
2006 Flag of Spain.svg José Rivero
2005 Flag of England.svg Kevin Spurgeon
2004 Flag of the United States.svg Pete Oakley
2003 Flag of England.svg Carl Mason
2002 Flag of the United States.svg Steve Stull
2001 Flag of New Zealand.svg Simon Owen
2000 Flag of Brazil.svg Priscillo Diniz
1999 Flag of the United States.svg Jerry Bruner
1998 Flag of Ireland.svg Denis O'Sullivan

Leading career money winners

The table below shows the top ten career money leaders on the European Senior Tour as of the end of the 2018 season.

RankPlayerPrize money ()
1 Flag of Germany.svg Bernhard Langer 2,811,071
2 Flag of England.svg Carl Mason 2,757,126
3 Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Montgomerie 1,943,628
4 Flag of England.svg Nick Job 1,653,634
5 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Fowler 1,652,178
6 Flag of England.svg Barry Lane 1,571,534
7 Flag of the United States.svg Tom Watson 1,570,663
8 Flag of Scotland.svg Sam Torrance 1,560,985
9 Flag of England.svg Tommy Horton 1,527,506
10 Flag of Scotland.svg Bill Longmuir 1,472,192

There is a full list that is updated after each tournament on the European Tour's website here.

See also

Notes

  1. Schedules have also included events in Asia, Africa, Australasia and North America.

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