The Champions Classic
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The Champions Classic was a golf
tournament on the Champions Tour
from 1983 to 1985. It was played in Sparks, Nevada
at the Wildcreek Golf Club.
The purse for the 1985 tournament was US$200,000, with $30,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1983 as the Gatlin Brothers Seniors Golf Classic.
Gatlin Brothers Seniors Golf Classic
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 1985. It was played in Sparks, Nevada
Sparks, Nevada
Sparks is a city in Washoe County, Nevada, United States, located east of Reno, Nevada. The 2010 U.S. Census Bureau population count was 90,264. Sparks is often referred to as half of a twin city .-Geography and Climate:...
at the Wildcreek Golf Club.
The purse for the 1985 tournament was US$200,000, with $30,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1983 as the Gatlin Brothers Seniors Golf Classic.
Winners
The Champions Classic- 1985 Peter Thomson
Gatlin Brothers Seniors Golf Classic
- 1984 Dan SikesDan SikesDaniel David Sikes, Jr. was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. Sikes won nine tournaments as a pro, including six PGA Tour events.- Early years :...
- 1983 Don JanuaryDon JanuaryDonald Ray January is an American professional golfer.January was born in Plainview, Texas, and graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas...