Senior Major Winners
The table below show the results of all the events designated as majors by the Champions Tour. As the order in which the majors were played frequently changed, they are listed in the current order of play. Winners of Senior PGA Championships played before 1980 and Senior British Opens played before 2003 are not listed here as they were not Champions Tour majors at the time nor retroactively recognized as majors. Those winners are shown in the tournaments' articles. The other three tournaments have been Champions Tour majors throughout their existence. The Senior PGA Championship was held twice in 1984 but was not held in 1983 or 1985.
Through the 2012 season, there have been 129 senior majors, of which 106 have been won by American golfers and 23 by non-Americans. Thus, Americans have been considerably more dominant at this level than they have been in either regular majors or women's majors in recent decades.
Jack Nicklaus holds the record for the most senior majors won with eight. He also has the record for the number of regular majors won (18).
Nicklaus also holds the record as the only person to have won four different senior majors. At the time, this was a 'Career Grand Slam' as the Senior British Open did not become the 5th major until 2003, by which time Nicklaus had effectively retired from senior golf (his only appearance in the Senior British Open was in 2003). Nobody has managed to win all five different majors.
| Year | Senior PGA Championship |
The Tradition | Senior Players Championship |
U.S. Senior Open | Senior British Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Roger Chapman (1/2) | Tom Lehman (3/3) | Joe Daley | Roger Chapman (2/2) | Fred Couples (2/2) |
| 2011 | Tom Watson (6/6) | Tom Lehman (2/3) | Fred Couples (1/2) | Olin Browne | Russ Cochran |
| 2010 | Tom Lehman (1/3) | Fred Funk (3/3) | Mark O'Meara | Bernhard Langer (2/2) | Bernhard Langer (1/2) |
| 2009 | Michael Allen | Mike Reid (2/2) | Jay Haas (3/3) | Fred Funk (2/3) | Loren Roberts (4/4) |
| 2008 | Jay Haas (2/3) | Fred Funk (1/3) | D. A. Weibring | Eduardo Romero (2/2) | Bruce Vaughan |
| 2007 | Denis Watson | / Mark McNulty | Loren Roberts (3/4) | Brad Bryant | Tom Watson (5/6) |
| 2006 | Jay Haas (1/3) | Eduardo Romero (1/2) | Bobby Wadkins | Allen Doyle (4/4) | Loren Roberts (2/4) |
| 2005 | Mike Reid (1/2) | Loren Roberts (1/4) | Peter Jacobsen (2/2) | Allen Doyle (3/4) | Tom Watson (4/6) |
| 2004 | Hale Irwin (7/7) | Craig Stadler (2/2) | Mark James | Peter Jacobsen (1/2) | Pete Oakley |
| 2003 | John Jacobs | Tom Watson (3/6) | Craig Stadler (1/2) | Bruce Lietzke | Tom Watson (2/6) |
| 2002 | Fuzzy Zoeller | Jim Thorpe | Stewart Ginn | Don Pooley | Not a Champions Tour event |
| 2001 | Tom Watson (1/6) | Doug Tewell (2/2) | Allen Doyle (2/4) | Bruce Fleisher | |
| 2000 | Doug Tewell (1/2) | Tom Kite | Raymond Floyd (4/4) | Hale Irwin (6/7) | |
| 1999 | Allen Doyle (1/4) | Graham Marsh (2/2) | Hale Irwin (5/7) | Dave Eichelberger | |
| 1998 | Hale Irwin (3/7) | Gil Morgan (2/3) | Gil Morgan (3/3) | Hale Irwin (4/7) | |
| 1997 | Hale Irwin (2/7) | Gil Morgan (1/3) | Larry Gilbert | Graham Marsh (1/2) | |
| 1996 | Hale Irwin (1/7) | Jack Nicklaus (8/8) | Raymond Floyd (3/4) | Dave Stockton (3/3) | |
| 1995 | Raymond Floyd (2/4) | Jack Nicklaus (7/8) | J. C. Snead | Tom Weiskopf | |
| 1994 | Lee Trevino (4/4) | Raymond Floyd (1/4) | Dave Stockton (2/3) | Simon Hobday | |
| 1993 | Tom Wargo | Tom Shaw | Jack Nicklaus (6/8) | Jim Colbert | |
| 1992 | Lee Trevino (2/4) | Lee Trevino (3/4) | Dave Stockton (1/3) | Larry Laoretti | |
| 1991 | Jack Nicklaus (3/8) | Jack Nicklaus (5/8) | Jim Albus | Jack Nicklaus (4/8) | |
| 1990 | Gary Player (6/6) | Jack Nicklaus (1/8) | Jack Nicklaus (2/8) | Lee Trevino (1/4) | |
| 1989 | Larry Mowry | Don Bies | Orville Moody (2/2) | Orville Moody (1/2) | |
| 1988 | Gary Player (4/6) | Founded in 1989 | Billy Casper (2/2) | Gary Player (5/6) | |
| 1987 | Chi Chi Rodriguez (2/2) | Gary Player (3/6) | Gary Player (2/6) | ||
| 1986 | Gary Player (1/6) | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1/2) | Dale Douglass | Founded in 1987 | |
| 1985 | Not held | Arnold Palmer (5/5) | Miller Barber (5/5) | ||
| 1984 | Dec. Peter Thomson | Arnold Palmer (4/5) | Miller Barber (4/5) | ||
| Jan. Arnold Palmer (3/5) | |||||
| 1983 | Not held | Miller Barber (3/5) | Billy Casper (1/2) | ||
| 1982 | Don January | Founded in 1983 | Miller Barber (2/5) | ||
| 1981 | Miller Barber (1/5) | Arnold Palmer (2/5) | |||
| 1980 | Arnold Palmer (1/5) | Roberto DeVicenzo |
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