Posted on: Friday, July 2, 2004
$600,000 Champions Skins Game at Wailea
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Advertiser Staff
Next year's Wendy's Champions Skins Game will be Feb. 5 and 6, with the Pro-Am Feb. 4. The tournament will be played at Wailea Resort's Gold Course for the fifth consecutive year.
The 2005 field will be announced later in the year. This February, Tom Watson won the 17th senior skins game with a par on the third playoff hole.
Watson, the youngest player in the field by a decade, collected $400,000 and 10 skins over 18 holes. Arnold Palmer took second with $140,000, with Jack Nicklaus third ($60,000). Trevino, who had won the year before, was shut out.
Palmer missed a chance at winning his first skins game since 1993 when he could not convert a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation. He had been shut out the previous two years.
Champions Skins has a $600,000 purse. The first six holes are worth $20,000 each, the next six $30,000 and the next five $40,000. The 18th hole is worth $100,000. If a player does not win a hole outright, the money carries over to the next hole.
The skins game follows a full January in Hawai'i golf. It starts with Mercedes Championships on Maui (Jan. 5 to 8 at Kapalua Plantation), followed by the Sony Open in Hawai'i on O'ahu (Jan. 12 to 15 at Wai'alae Country Club), the MasterCard Championship on the Big Island (Jan. 21 to 23 at Hualalai) and the Turtle Bay Championship on O'ahu (Jan. 28 to 30 at the Palmer Course.)
