Several teams announced for Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf

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SAVANNAH, Ga -- With the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf returning to its historic roots and becoming an all-team event again for the first time since 2001 which will count as an official win and official money, Champions Tour players are announcing their teams for the Legends Division (ages 50-59) as the April 21-27 event at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa in Savannah, Ga., approaches.

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Larry Nelson and Jim Thorpe have announced that they will join forces at the event. Nelson, a 2006 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee, is a three-time major champion (1981 & '87 PGA Championship; 1983 U.S Open) with a total of 10 PGA TOUR victories. Nelson has also enjoyed a successful career on the Champions Tour, earning 19 wins since his debut in 1997.

A three-time winner on the PGA TOUR, Thorpe has won a total of 13 times on the Champions Tour including a second consecutive win at last year's season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship. He earned a Champions Tour major title at the 2002 JELD-WEN Tradition with a birdie on the first playoff hole to beat John Jacobs at Superstition Mountain in Arizona.

Former college roommates Bruce Lietzke and Bill Rogers will reunite as a team for the fourth time in Savannah. The duo, who lived together while attending the University of Houston in the early '70s, captured the Raphael team division title in 2002 (unofficial win). Lietzke, a 13-time winner on the PGA TOUR with seven Champions Tour titles, went on to earn an official victory the next year with a one stroke victory over David Eger and Dana Quigley at the 2003 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.

Rogers has a total of six PGA TOUR titles and is best known for stellar performance at the 1981 British Open, defeating runner-up Bernhard Langer by four strokes at Royal St. George's in England. He was also a member of the U.S Ryder Cup team and named PGA Player of the Year in 1981.

Brothers Lanny and Bobby Wadkins will tee it up together as a team for the first time at the event. Elder brother Lanny has won 21 times on the PGA TOUR, including a major victory at the 1977 PGA Championship at Pebble Beach. He also served as the 1995 U.S Ryder Cup captain at Oak Hill Country Club and has played on the American team eight times. His sole Champions Tour title came at the ACE Group Classic in 2000. Bobby is a four-time winner on the Champions Tour, including a major win at the 2006 Ford Senior Players Championship (now the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship).

Played as an individual stroke-play event over the past six years, the new two-man, better-ball format will bring back the excitement that began in 1978. The Legends Division will remain an Official Money/Official Win competition.

Bob Charles and Stewart Ginn will team up again in the Raphael Division, a two-day better-ball format for players ages 50-69 offering $430,000 in unofficial prize money. The pair won the division in 2004. The teams of Tommy Aaron-Don Bies and Doug Sanders-Lee Elder have entered the Demaret division for players age 70 and over.

Tickets are on sale now at Kroger Super Markets throughout Savannah, GA, Waycross, GA, Brunswick, GA, Hilton Head, SC, Myrtle Beach, SC and Beaufort, SC starting at $25 for a daily pass (The price of single day tickets increases to $30 at the gate). Weeklong Emerald Club passes are $75 ($65 for age 60+). Emerald Club passes include admission into the National Car Rental Emerald Club Pavilion Wednesday-Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased by calling toll free, 877-942-1123 or visiting the tournament's Web site at www.libertymutuallegends.pgatour.com.

The Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf is part of the Champions Tour's "The Road to the Charles Schwab Cup", a season-long points race that kicks off in Hawaii with 29 official events and culminates in Northern California at Sonoma Golf Club October 27 -- November 2, with $2.1 million in payouts awarded to the season's top five leading performers.