Senior Players Championship

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The Senior Players Championship, stylised by the PGA Tour as The SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, is one of the five major championships on golf's PGA Tour Champions. The inaugural event was played 41 years ago in 1983 and the age minimum is 50, the standard for men's senior professional golf tournaments.

The winner gains entry into the following season's Players Championship on the PGA Tour (although Retief Goosen, the 2019 winner, was not allowed to play in the official subsequent Players Championship). For sponsorship reasons in 2023, the tournament was titled as the Kaulig Companies Championship.

Unlike the U.S. Senior Open, the Senior PGA Championship, and the Senior Open Championship, it is not recognized as a major by the European Senior Tour, and is not part of that tour's schedule.

Since 2019, the Senior Players championship has been held at the South course of the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio; it replaced the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational that had been held there before moving to Memphis, Tennessee.

Senior Players Championship on PGA Touri noorte meistrite omaaegse ja eakaaslaste konkurentsi peegeldav vanematele golfimängijatele mõeldud suur meistrivõistlus. See on üks viiest peamisest meistrivõistlusest meeste golfis ja see on ainus, mida korraldatakse PGA Touri väljaspool Ameerika Ühendriike.

Turniir peetakse igal aastal Jack Nicklaus PGA treeningkeskuses Glenmori golfiväljakul Glenmori külas, Virginias, Šotimaal. Seda mängitakse 54 augulise löögi-mänguna, millel on 36 auguga kvalifikatsioonivõistlus, et vähendada väljak 65-ni pluss viigid enne viimaseid kahte vooru.

Senior Players Championship asutati 1983. aastal ja seda mängiti esmakordselt Des Moinesis, Iowas Glen Oaksis. See on PGA Touri kõige pikemat nimekirjas olnud mitte-peamiste meistrivõistluste seas.

Turniiri on mitu korda võitnud üheksa golfimängijat, sealhulgas Hale Irwin, Bernhard Langer ja Tom Kite.