2005 Champions Tour schedule | 2005 Grand Champions money list
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Georgia-Pacific, the "Official Forest Products Provider for the PGA TOUR and Champions Tour," enters its seventh year as title sponsor of the Grand Champions program. In 2005, there will be six Grand Champions events.

The Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions competition is open to players 60 years of age and older who are entered in the full-field Champions Tour event. Scores posted during the first two rounds of the event (Friday and Saturday) determine the winner of this "tournament within a tournament.

The Grand Champions will compete for weekly purses of $175,000, with $30,000 going to the winner at five events in 2005. Each of these Grand Champions events is preceded by a Thursday pro-am, where Georgia-Pacific guests have the opportunity to play a round of golf with legendary professionals. Past and present Grand Champions participants include Isao Aoki, Miller Barber, Billy Casper, Bob Charles, Jim Colbert, Raymond Floyd, Mike Hill, Gene Littler, Bob Murphy, Gary Player, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Jay Sigel, Dave Stockton and Lee Trevino. Don January is the all-time leader with 35 Grand Champions victories.

Sigel won the 2004 money title, with $219,292 in earnings.

Turning 60 in 2005 and becoming eligible for Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions competition are Hale Irwin and Mike McCullough.

While Grand Champions earnings do not count toward the Champions Tour official money list, players also are eligible to collect official prize money based on their finishes in the regular tournament. A player has won the Grand Champions event and the regular tournament in the same week six times, most recently at the 2002 Greater Baltimore Classic, when Snead snapped a seven-year winless streak.

The season-ending Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions Championship will offer a purse of $400,000. A minimum of the top 16 players on the Grand Champions money list heading into the event will be eligible to compete for the $86,000 first prize. Hill won the 2004 title.

• 2004 Grand Champions results