E-Notebook: Senior PGA Championship

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Jeff Sluman

• The Senior PGA Championship will be held in Rochester, N.Y. this week and three local products enter after strong finishes last week. Jeff Sluman, a winner of the PGA Championship and a native of Rochester, finished a Champions Tour career-best third last week at the Regions Charity Classic. He's joined by fellow New Yorkers Joey Sindelar and Mike Hulbert, each of whom finished T11 last week.

• While most of the Champions Tour membership will be competing at the Senior PGA Championship, rookie Fulton Allem will be at Colonial CC in Fort Worth for the Crowne Plaza Invitational. Allem was the winner in 1993.

• Four Champions Tour rookies are having standout seasons. Bernhard Langer leads the money list with Mark Wiebe (7th), John Cook (8th) and Jeff Sluman (13th) having a chance to finish at the top by season's end.

• Brad Bryant didn't win the Regions Charity Classic for the third consecutive year, but he did continue his amazing iron play at the tournament. Over the past three years, Bryant has hit 84.6 percent of the Greens In Regulation in the tournament (137 of 162).