The Tradition

The Tradition

Tournament information
Location	Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Established	1989
Course(s)	Greystone Golf and Country Club (Founders Course)
Par	72
Length	7,277 yards (6,654 m)[1]
Tour(s)	PGA Tour Champions
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$2,500,000
Month played	May
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Doug Tewell (2001) 265 Steve Stricker (2023)
To par	−23 as above
Current champion
Doug Barron
Location map
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The Tradition (known as the Regions Tradition for sponsorship reasons) is an event on the PGA Tour Champions. First staged 35 years ago in 1989, the PGA Tour recognizes the event as one of the five senior major golf championships. Unlike the U.S. Senior Open, Senior PGA Championship and Senior Open Championship, it is not recognized as a major by the European Senior Tour, and is not part of that tour's official schedule. It is the only senior major where the winner does not earn an exemption into a PGA Tour or European Tour event.

From its inception in 1989 through 2001, the tournament was held in Arizona at the Cochise Golf Course of the Golf Club at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale. In 2002, it was held at the Prospector Course of Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club near Gold Canyon.^[2] While in Arizona, the event was played in early April.

In 2003, the event relocated to northwest Oregon for four years at the South Course of The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in Hillsboro, Oregon, just west of Portland. Following the 2006 edition, it moved to the high desert of central Oregon for four years, to the Crosswater Club in Sunriver, south of Bend. The lengthy course sits on 600 acres (2.4 km²) of woodlands and preserved wetlands along the Deschutes River, at an average elevation of 4,170 feet (1,270 m) above sea level. The par-72 layout played at 7,316 yards (6,690 m) in 2009. During the eight years in Oregon, the event was held in mid- to late August.

Following the 2010 event, Birmingham, Alabama–based Regions Financial Corporation announced in August that it was taking over sponsorship of the tournament. For five years, the event was played at the Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club in the Shoal Creek development, southeast of Birmingham. ^[3] The Tradition superseded the Regions Charity Classic, a regular Champions Tour event which began in 1992 as the Bruno's Memorial Classic.^[4] Shoal Creek previously hosted two PGA Championships, in 1984 and 1990.

Since moving to Alabama in 2011, the event has been played in May and June. It moved from Shoal Creek to the nearby Greystone Golf and Country Club in 2016, and is held on the recently renovated Founders Course.

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)	Venue
Regions Tradition
2024	Doug Barron	271	−17	2 strokes	Steven Alker	375,000	Greystone (Founders Course)
2023	Steve Stricker (3)	265	−23	6 strokes	Ernie Els Robert Karlsson	375,000	Greystone (Founders Course)
2022	Steve Stricker (2)	267	−21	6 strokes	Pádraig Harrington	375,000	Greystone (Founders Course)
2021	Alex Čejka	270	−18	Playoff	Steve Stricker	375,000	Greystone (Founders Course)
2020	Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019	Steve Stricker	270	−18	6 strokes	Billy Andrade Paul Goydos David Toms	360,000	Greystone (Founders Course)
2018	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	269	−19	3 strokes	Joe Durant Gene Sauers Steve Stricker	360,000	Greystone (Founders Course)
2017	Bernhard Langer (2)	268	−20	5 strokes	Scott Parel Scott McCarron	345,000	Greystone (Founders Course)
2016	Bernhard Langer	271	−17	6 strokes	Olin Browne	345,000	Greystone (Founders Course)
2015	Jeff Maggert	274	−14	Playoff	Kevin Sutherland	345,000	Shoal Creek
2014	Kenny Perry	281	−7	1 stroke	Mark Calcavecchia	330,000	Shoal Creek
2013	David Frost	272	−16	1 stroke	Fred Couples	335,000	Shoal Creek
2012	Tom Lehman (2)	274	−14	2 strokes	Bernhard Langer Lu Chien-soon	335,000	Shoal Creek
2011	Tom Lehman	275	−13	Playoff	Peter Senior	330,000	Shoal Creek
JELD-WEN Tradition
2010	Fred Funk (2)	276	−12	1 stroke	Michael Allen Lu Chien-soon	392,000	Crosswater
2009	Mike Reid	272	−16	Playoff	John Cook	392,000	Crosswater
2008	Fred Funk	269	−19	3 strokes	Mike Goodes	392,000	Crosswater
2007	Mark McNulty	272	−16	5 strokes	David Edwards	390,000	Crosswater
2006	Eduardo Romero	275	−13	Playoff	Lonnie Nielsen	375,000	The Reserve (South Course)
2005	Loren Roberts	273	−15	Playoff	Dana Quigley	375,000	The Reserve (South Course)
2004	Craig Stadler	275	−13	1 stroke	Allen Doyle Jerry Pate	345,000	The Reserve (South Course)
2003	Tom Watson	273	−15	1 stroke	Jim Ahern Tom Kite	330,000	The Reserve (South Course)
The Countrywide Tradition
2002	Jim Thorpe	277	−11	Playoff	John Jacobs	300,000	Superstition Mountain (Prospector Course)
2001	Doug Tewell	265	−23	9 strokes	Mike McCullough	255,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
2000	Tom Kite	280	−8	Playoff	Larry Nelson Tom Watson	240,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
The Tradition
1999	Graham Marsh	136[a]	−8	3 strokes	Larry Nelson	225,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1998	Gil Morgan (2)	276	−12	2 strokes	Tom Wargo	210,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1997	Gil Morgan	266	−22	6 strokes	Isao Aoki	180,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1996	Jack Nicklaus (4)	272	−16	3 strokes	Hale Irwin	150,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1995	Jack Nicklaus (3)	276	−12	Playoff	Isao Aoki	150,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1994	Raymond Floyd	271	−17	Playoff	Dale Douglass	127,500	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1993	Tom Shaw	269	−19	1 stroke	Mike Hill	127,500	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1992	Lee Trevino	274	−14	1 stroke	Jack Nicklaus	120,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1991	Jack Nicklaus (2)	277	−11	1 stroke	Jim Colbert Jim Dent Phil Rodgers	120,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1990	Jack Nicklaus	206[b]	−10	4 strokes	Gary Player	120,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)
1989	Don Bies	275	−13	1 stroke	Gary Player	90,000	Desert Mountain (Cochise Course)

Through 2023, five men have multiple wins in the Tradition:

• 4 wins:
  • Jack Nicklaus: 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996
• 3 wins:
  • Steve Stricker: 2019, 2022, 2023
• 2 wins:
  • Gil Morgan: 1997, 1998
  • Fred Funk: 2008, 2010
  • Tom Lehman: 2011, 2012
  • Bernhard Langer: 2016, 2017

• Official website
• Coverage on the PGA Tour Champions's official site
• Greystone Golf and Country Club – official site – current venue

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