The Bank One Classic was a golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 tournament on the Champions Tour

Champions Tour

The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...

 from 1983 to 1997. It was played in Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

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 at the Griffin Gate Golf Club (1983-1989) and at the Kearney Hill Links (1990-1997).

The purse for the 1997 tournament was US$800,000, with $120,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1983 as the Citizens Union Senior Golf Classic.

Winners

Bank One Classic

• 1997 Vicente Fernandez
  Vicente Fernandez (golfer)
  Vicente Fernández is an Argentine golfer who has won more than 60 professional tournaments around the world.Fernández was born in Corrientes, Argentina. He turned professional in 1964 and was a regular competitor on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s...
  
  
• 1996 Mike Hill
• 1995 Gary Player
  Gary Player
  Gary Player DMS; OIG is a South African professional golfer. With his nine major championship victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. Player has won 165 tournaments on six continents over six...
  
  

Bank One Senior Classic

• 1994 Isao Aoki
  Isao Aoki
  is one of Japan's most successful golfers. He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2004.Aoki was born in Abiko, Chiba, Japan. He was introduced to golf while caddying at the Abiko Golf Club as a schoolboy. He turned professional in 1964...
  
  
• 1993 Gary Player
  Gary Player
  Gary Player DMS; OIG is a South African professional golfer. With his nine major championship victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. Player has won 165 tournaments on six continents over six...
  
  
• 1992 Terry Dill
  Terry Dill
  Terrance Darby Dill is an American professional golfer who has competed on the PGA Tour, Champions Tour, and most recently, the European Seniors Tour....
  
  
• 1991 DeWitt Weaver
  DeWitt Weaver (golfer)
  DeWitt Thompson Weaver, Jr. is an American golf consultant and former professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour....
  
  

Vantage Bank One Classic

• 1990 Rives McBee
  Rives McBee
  Rives McBee is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.McBee was born in Denton, Texas, and has called nearby Irving home for most of his life. He played on the PGA Tour from 1965 to 1971, before accepting a job as the head golf professional at Las...
  
  

RJR Bank One Classic

• 1989 Rives McBee
  Rives McBee
  Rives McBee is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.McBee was born in Denton, Texas, and has called nearby Irving home for most of his life. He played on the PGA Tour from 1965 to 1971, before accepting a job as the head golf professional at Las...
  
  

Vantage presents Bank One Senior Golf Classic

• 1988 Bob Charles
  Bob Charles (golfer)
  Sir Robert James Charles, ONZ, KNZM, CBE is a New Zealand professional golfer whose achievements over five decades rank him among the most successful left-handed golfers of all time, being the first lefty to win a golf major, winning more than 70 titles, and beating his age twice during a...
  
  
• 1987 Bruce Crampton
  Bruce Crampton
  Bruce Crampton is an Australian professional golfer.Crampton was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and attended Kogarah High School from 1948-1950. He turned professional in 1953....
  
  

Bank One Senior Golf Classic

• 1986 Gene Littler
  Gene Littler
  Gene Alec Littler is an American professional golfer. Known for a solid temperament and nicknamed "Gene the Machine" for his smooth rhythmical swing, he once said that, "Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the best misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes."-Early years...
  
  

Citizens Union Senior Golf Classic

• 1985 Lee Elder
  Lee Elder
  Robert Lee Elder is an American golfer. He is best remembered for becoming the first African-American to play in the Masters Tournament in 1975.-Background and family:...
  
  
• 1984 Gay Brewer
  Gay Brewer
  Gay Robert Brewer, Jr. was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and won the 1967 Masters Tournament....
  
  
• 1983 Don January
  Don January
  Donald Ray January is an American professional golfer.January was born in Plainview, Texas, and graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas...