First, there’s the silliness of five major championships.
If that’s what you want, then the Champions Tour and LPGA Tour have you covered.
But how about back-to-back major championships?
No where else but the old-guy circuit.
The Champions Tour just concluded the Regions Tradition last week where The Most Interesting Man In Golf, Miguel-Angel Jimenez, got the best of Steve Stricker down the stretch.
Miguel of course went right for the magnum of champagne afterward — he’s the man, coolest golfer on the planet and the guy you pull for if you don’t care for the highly-boring other lads who infiltrate the senior circuit.
So this week the over-50 set ventures up to Benton Harbor, Michigan, to compete in the PGA Senior Championship, which is the grand-father of the PGA, it is staged by the PGA of America, not the PGA Tour.
To add intrigue, the defending champion is way past that over-50 designation. Bernhard Langer is over 60, which makes it totally amazing that he’s been able to beat up on those 50-55 year-old “kids.”
Jimenez might be the pre-tournament favorite considering his strong finish last Sunday as they head for Harbor Shores Golf Club.
One guy who won’t be there is the guy who is typically favored in any of these senior events and that would be Striker. It was Stricker who uncharacteristically missed a 12-foot birdie putt at the 16th hole last Sunday then made a surprising bogey at the 17th when he couldn’t get up-and-down from a greenside bunker. That took the heat off Jimenez, who looked pretty unflappable anyway.
Stricker will play instead down at the Fort Worth Invitational — which shows that there’s a lot more money available in a regular PGA Tour event than any old guy event.
