Word: pga
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These are more than just flights of nostalgia. On the Senior PGA Tour this year, prize money totaling more than $53 million--a record sum--will be awarded in 45 separate events. A senior golf-tournament win can bring as much as $347,000; two top performers, Hale Irwin, 54, and Gil Morgan, 53, have each earned more than $2 million a year in the past two years...
...golfers, the youngest of whom must be at least 50, who give emphasis to the word senior in the Senior PGA Tour. Seven players over 60 have won a total of eight tournaments, among them Mike Fetchick, who on his 63rd birthday won the Hilton Head Seniors International, making him the oldest winner ever on the pro circuit...
...decades ago, Palmer, along with Barber, 68, and Don January, 69, were still competitive in the regular PGA Tour when they got senior golf off to its rousing start. Even today, though these oldsters play less frequently and finish well down in the field, they are still mobbed by the fans...
...parade of stars of great magnitude" to what he describes as "a highly competitive experience," one that Irwin himself epitomizes. While he projects less personality or flamboyance than Palmer or Nicklaus and evokes less passion from the gallery, he is an intense perfectionist who still competes in regular PGA Tour events and this season stands a good chance of being the senior tour's leading money winner for the third consecutive year. To critics of his lack of pizazz, Irwin responds, "Playing great golf ought to be enough...
...both golf and tennis, however, there have been a few concessions to age. Instead of the 72 holes that are standard on the PGA Tour, senior golfers usually play only 54, and they play on courses that are generally gentler and a couple of hundred yards shorter. Golf carts, forbidden on the regular tour, are allowed. The problem in tennis, McEnroe explains, "is that we've still got to run, and they haven't yet come up with a shrunken court." Seniors competition is limited to two sets, however, and if necessary a 10-point tie breaker instead...