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Wendy's Champions Skins Game

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The Wendy's Champions Skins Game was an unofficial golf tournament on the Champions Tour. It was played annually in January/February in Maui, Hawaii at Kaanapali Golf Resort (Royal Kaanapali Golf Course). Wendy's was the main sponsor of the tournament. Before that, from 2001 through 2007, it was played at the Wailea Golf Club in Maui on their Gold Course.[1]

The tournament was founded in 1988 as the Senior Skins Game. It was played in a skins game format where each hole, and the money or "skin" associated with it, was won by one player only if they win that hole outright. If no player won the hole, the "skin" carried over to the next hole. From 1988 to 2005, it was played as an individual event with four players (five in 1991). Beginning in 2006, it was played as an alternate-shot two-man team event with four teams.

The tournament was discontinued in December 2011.[2] The purse for the final tournament in 2011 was US$770,000.

Winners

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Team event (2006–2011)
Year Winners Runners-up
Wendy's Champions Skins Game
2011 United States Jack Nicklaus and United States Tom Watson Germany Bernhard Langer and United States Mark O'Meara
2010 United States Jack Nicklaus and United States Tom Watson United States Ben Crenshaw and United States Fuzzy Zoeller
2009 United States Ben Crenshaw and United States Fuzzy Zoeller Australia Greg Norman and United States Jay Haas
2008 United States Peter Jacobsen and United States Fuzzy Zoeller United States Jack Nicklaus and United States Tom Watson
2007 United States Jack Nicklaus and United States Tom Watson South Africa Gary Player and United States Jay Haas
2006 United States Raymond Floyd and United States Dana Quigley United States Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson
Individual event (1988–2005)
Year Winner Country Runner-up
Wendy's Champions Skins Game
2005 Jack Nicklaus  United States United States Craig Stadler
2004 Tom Watson  United States United States Arnold Palmer
ConAgra Foods Champions Skins Game
2003 Lee Trevino  United States United States Hale Irwin
Senior Skins Game
2002 Hale Irwin  United States United States Jack Nicklaus
2001 Hale Irwin  United States United States Jack Nicklaus
2000 Gary Player  South Africa United States Tom Watson
1999 Hale Irwin  United States United States Raymond Floyd
1998 Raymond Floyd  United States United States Hale Irwin
1997 Raymond Floyd  United States United States Jack Nicklaus
1996 Raymond Floyd  United States United States Jim Colbert
1995 Raymond Floyd  United States United States Jack Nicklaus
1994 Raymond Floyd  United States United States Arnold Palmer
1993 Arnold Palmer  United States Puerto Rico Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1992 Arnold Palmer  United States Puerto Rico Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1991 Jack Nicklaus  United States United States Lee Trevino
1990 Arnold Palmer  United States United States Jack Nicklaus
1989 Chi-Chi Rodríguez  Puerto Rico South Africa Gary Player
1988 Chi-Chi Rodríguez  Puerto Rico South Africa Gary Player

References

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  1. ^ "Golf's Most Legendary Players". Wailea Golf Club. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  2. ^ "Kaanapali officials: Champions Skins Game off for 2012". Maui News. December 6, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
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