Wentworth Senior Masters is a men's professional 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 European Seniors Tour

European Seniors Tour

The European Seniors Tour is a professional tour for male golfers aged 50 and over run by the PGA European Tour.The Tour was founded in 1992. In 2008 it had a total prize fund of €7,729,284, so it is much further behind the U.S.-based Champions Tour in relative prize money than the main European...

. It was first played in 1997, when it was won by one of golf's all time greats, 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...

 of South Africa

South Africa

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. It is staged at the Wentworth Club

Wentworth Club

Wentworth Club is a privately owned golf club and health resort in Virginia Water, Surrey on the south western fringes of London, not far from Windsor Castle. The club was founded in 1926.-History:...

 on the western fringes of London

London

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, which is the location of the headquarters of the PGA European Tour

PGA European Tour

The PGA European Tour is an organization which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...

 organisation that runs the European Seniors Tour. Thus it is in a sense the Seniors Tour's home tournament. It takes place on Wentworth's Edinburgh Course (the two European Tour tournaments at the club, the BMW PGA Championship and the HSBC World Match Play Championship

HSBC World Match Play Championship

The Volvo World Match Play Championship is the current name of an annual match play men's professional golf tournament. From 2009 the event has been played at the Finca Cortesín Golf Club in Casares near Málaga, Spain, having previously been played at Wentworth Club near London...

 are played over the West Course). In 2006 the prize fund was £250,000.

Winners

Wentworth Senior Masters

• 2007 Des Smyth
  Des Smyth
  Desmond John Smyth is an Irish professional golfer.Smyth was born in Drogheda, County Louth. He turned professional in 1974 and was a member of the European Tour for over a quarter of a century. His best finish on the European Tour Order of Merit was seventh in 1988...
  
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• 2006 Eduardo Romero
  Eduardo Romero
  Eduardo Alejandro Romero is an Argentine professional golfer.Romero was born in Córdoba. He turned professional in 1982 at a relatively advanced age...
  
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Travis Perkins Senior Masters

• 2005 Eduardo Romero
  Eduardo Romero
  Eduardo Alejandro Romero is an Argentine professional golfer.Romero was born in Córdoba. He turned professional in 1982 at a relatively advanced age...
  
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• 2004 Sam Torrance
  Sam Torrance
  Sam Torrance OBE is a Scottish professional golfer and sports commentator. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s, with 21 Tour wins. Torrance was a member of European Ryder Cup teams on eight occasions, from 1981 to 1995 consecutively; he was...
  
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• 2003 John Chillas -
• 2002 Ray Carrasco -

Energis Senior Masters

• 2001 David Oakley
  David Oakley
  David K. Oakley was an American professional golfer whose greatest success came on the European Seniors Tour....
  
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• 2000 David Creamer -
• 1999 Neil Coles
  Neil Coles
  Neil Chapman Coles, MBE is an English professional golfer. As of 2005, Coles is only the second man to win a professional golf tournament in six different decades, starting in the 1950s and extending into the 21st century.Coles was born in England...
  
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Schroder Senior Masters

• 1998 Brian Huggett
  Brian Huggett
  Brian George Charles Huggett, MBE is a Welsh professional golfer. In 2006 he was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame....
  
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Shell Wentworth Senior Masters

• 1997 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...
  
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External links

• Coverage on the European Seniors Tour's official site - use the schedule browser on the left to access other years.