First year at TPC: 2000
Tournament Record: 270 (-14)
Tom Watson, 2000
Started in 1990, the Charles Schwab Cup Championship moved from Dorado, Puerto Rico to
the Dunes Golf & Beach Club in '94 and remained through '99.
The event then went to a rotating basis with the TPC of Myrtle Beach playing host to it in 2000.
Ray Floyd won in both 1992 & '94 |
A final-round 66 in the 2000 event enabled Watson to become the first player to win TOUR championships on the PGA TOUR and Champions Tour.
His TOUR Championship victory came in 1987 as he defeated Chip Beck in the old Nabisco Championships of Golf at Oak Hills CC in San Antonio.
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In 2000, Tom Watson won the only Champions Tour Championship ever staged at the TPC of Myrtle Beach
MURRELLS INLET, SC -- As the Champions Tour Championship made a one-year stop at the TPC of Myrtle Beach in 2000, Tom Watson rode an eagle and four birdies to a final-round 66, outlasting John Jacobs down the stretch for his only official Champions Tour victory of the season.
Watson seized commmand of the tournament on the 14th hole, as he rolled in a 35-foot eagle putt moments after Jacobs left his eagle try inches short.
Watson's 18-under 270 total set a new tournament record. The eight-time major championship winner did not make a bogey over his final 26 holes.
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