E-Notes: Champions Tour returns to Caribbean

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• Tim Simpson finished in a tie for second last week at the Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach for his best effort to date on the Champions Tour. It was his best finish on any of the Tours since finishing second at the 1995 Buffalo Open on the Nationwide Tour. His last victory came on the PGA TOUR at the 1990 Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic.

• Bob Gilder played in his 100th consecutive Champions Tour event last week. He's still way shy of Dana Quigley's all-time mark of 264.

• This week's Cap Cana Championship marks the Champions Tour's first official money event in the Caribbean since the 1996 Senior Tournament of Champions was held in Puerto Rico.

• Bernhard Langer's eight-stroke victory last week at the Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach was the largest margin of victory on the Champions Tour since his eight-stroke win at the 2007 Administaff Small Business Classic.

• More on Langer: He now has three Champions Tour victories in only 11 starts. He won three times on the PGA TOUR in 302 career starts.

• This week's field for the inaugural Cap Cana Championship in the Dominican Republic features 14 players who have won a combined 30 major championships on the PGA TOUR. Among this year's Cap Cana Championship field are five former Masters champions (Tom Watson, Craig Stadler, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam), seven former U.S. Open champions (Watson, Tom Kite, Hale Irwin, Scott Simpson, Jerry Pate and Larry Nelson), three former British Open champions (Watson, Lyle and Nick Price) and four former PGA Championship winners (Price, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, and Wayne Grady).

• Seven-time PGA TOUR winner Joey Sindelar is scheduled to make his Champions Tour debut at this week's Cap Cana Championship. His debut in the Dominican Republic will be the third by a former PGA TOUR winner in a four-event stretch this season. Sandy Lyle debuted at the Toshiba Classic in California and tied for 54th. Ian Woosnam played in his first Champions Tour event last week at The Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach, tying for 51st. Sindelar turned 50 on March 30.