European Senior Tour

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox sports league The European Senior Tour, currently branded as the Legends Tour,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is a professional golf tour for male golfers aged 50 and over, run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was titled as the Staysure Tour for the 2018 and 2019 seasons after UK-based insurance company Staysure became the first title sponsors of the senior tour in December 2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The tour was relaunched as the Legends Tour<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in 2020, after Ryan Howsam, founder and owner of Staysure, took majority ownership in a joint venture with the European Tour.

HistoryEdit

The Tour was founded in 1992 after calls from 60 leading professionals five years after the first Senior Open Championship in 1987. The highest profile event in Europe is the Senior British Open Championship, which is co-sanctioned by PGA Tour Champions and was played on the Old Course at St Andrews for the first time in 2018. The European Tour co-sanctions the Senior PGA Championship and the U.S. Senior Open. Prize money in the latter does not count towards the Order of Merit, but since 2007 the former has been an official money event.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Order of Merit winnersEdit

Year	Winner	Points
2024	Template:Flagicon Adilson da Silva	3,837
2023	Template:Flagicon Peter Baker	4,161
2022	Template:Flagicon James Kingston	2,845
2021	Template:Flagicon Stephen Dodd	1,830
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019	Template:Flagicon Phillip Price	2,888
Year	Winner	Prize money (€)
2018	Template:Flagicon Paul Broadhurst (2)	547,793
2017	Template:Flagicon Clark Dennis	222,055
2016	Template:Flagicon Paul Broadhurst	399,285
2015	Template:Flagicon Colin Montgomerie (2)	679,147
2014	Template:Flagicon Colin Montgomerie	624,543
2013	Template:Flagicon Paul Wesselingh	311,644
2012	Template:Flagicon Roger Chapman	356,751
2011	Template:Flagicon Peter Fowler	302,327
2010	Template:Flagicon Boonchu Ruangkit	266,609
2009	Template:Flagicon Sam Torrance (3)	170,696
2008	Template:Flagicon Ian Woosnam	320,120
2007	Template:Flagicon Carl Mason (3)	412,376
2006	Template:Flagicon Sam Torrance (2)	347,525
2005	Template:Flagicon Sam Torrance	277,421
2004	Template:Flagicon Carl Mason (2)	354,775
2003	Template:Flagicon Carl Mason	350,242
2002	Template:Flagicon Seiji Ebihara	330,211
2001	Template:Flagicon Ian Stanley	287,025
2000	Template:Flagicon Noel Ratcliffe	163,164
1999	Template:Flagicon Tommy Horton (5)	138,943
Year	Winner	Prize money (£)
1998	Template:Flagicon Tommy Horton (4)	127,656
1997	Template:Flagicon Tommy Horton (3)	158,427
1996	Template:Flagicon Tommy Horton (2)	133,195
1995	Template:Flagicon Brian Barnes	63,620
1994	Template:Flagicon John Morgan	57,209
1993	Template:Flagicon Tommy Horton	56,935
1992	Template:Flagicon John Fourie	47,856

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AwardsEdit

Year	Rookie of the Year
2024	Template:Flagicon Simon Griffiths
2023	Template:Flagicon Patrik Sjöland
2022	Template:Flagicon Adilson da Silva
2021	No award
2020	No award
2019	Template:Flagicon Paul Lawrie
2018	Template:Flagicon Paul Streeter
2017	Template:Flagicon Clark Dennis
2016	Template:Flagicon Magnus Persson Atlevi
2015	Template:Flagicon Paul Broadhurst
2014	Template:Flagicon César Monasterio
2013	Template:Flagicon Steen Tinning
2012	Template:Flagicon Paul Wesselingh
2011	Template:Flagicon Gary Wolstenholme
2010	Template:Flagicon Boonchu Ruangkit
2009	Template:Flagicon Mike Harwood
2008	Template:Flagicon Ian Woosnam
2007	Template:Flagicon Costantino Rocca
2006	Template:Flagicon José Rivero
2005	Template:Flagicon Kevin Spurgeon
2004	Template:Flagicon Pete Oakley
2003	Template:Flagicon Carl Mason
2002	Template:Flagicon Steve Stull
2001	Template:Flagicon Simon Owen
2000	Template:Flagicon Priscillo Diniz
1999	Template:Flagicon Jerry Bruner
1998	Template:Flagicon Denis O'Sullivan

Leading career money winnersEdit

The table below shows the top ten career money leaders on the European Senior Tour as of the end of the 2018 season.

Rank	Player	Prize money (€)
1	Template:Flagicon Bernhard Langer	2,811,071
2	Template:Flagicon Carl Mason	2,757,126
3	Template:Flagicon Colin Montgomerie	1,943,628
4	Template:Flagicon Nick Job	1,653,634
5	Template:Flagicon Peter Fowler	1,652,178
6	Template:Flagicon Barry Lane	1,571,534
7	Template:Flagicon Tom Watson	1,570,663
8	Template:Flagicon Sam Torrance	1,560,985
9	Template:Flagicon Tommy Horton	1,527,506
10	Template:Flagicon Bill Longmuir	1,472,192