Oldest Winners Ever on the Champions Tour
The List of Oldest Champions Tour Winners
These are the golfers who've won at age 62 and older:
- Scott Hoch: 63 years, 5 months, 4 days, 2019 Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf at Big Cedar Lodge
- Mike Fetchick: 63 years to the day, 1985 Hilton Head Seniors Invitational
- Jay Haas: 62 years, 10 months, 7 days, 2016 Toshiba Classic
- Gary Player: 62 years, 9 months, 22 days, 1998 Northville Long Island Classic
- Bernhard Langer: 62 years, 6 months, 3 days, 2020 Cologuard Classic
- Mark O'Meara: 62 years, 1 month, 18 days, 2019 Cologuard Classic
The Overall Record-Holder: Scott Hoch (Or Is He?)
In 2019, Scott Hoch displaced Mike Fetchick as the oldest winner ever on the Champions Tour, recording his record-setting victory at the 2019 Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf at Big Cedar Lodge. Fetchik had become the first 63-year-old to win — doing so on his birthday — at the 1985 Hilton Head Seniors Invitational. So Hoch broke one of the tour's oldest-standing records.Hoch was six months older than Fetchick at the time of their respective victories. And Hoch's victory was wire-to-wire. But it's important to note that Hoch's win was also in a team tournament — he was partnered by Tom Pernice Jr., and the tournament also used a par-3 course.
Does that record really count? Yes, according to the Champions Tour. Hoch, however, said no. At the tournament's end, told of the record, Hoch said, "It's a team event. It's great that I won, but I don't think you can compare that to an individual win. I mean, the individual winner, especially getting 62, 63 or something like that."
But, Hoch's protests to the contrary, the Champions Tour does, in fact, count Hoch as the tour's oldest-ever winner. If you'd prefer to think of them as two separate records — Hoch as the oldest overall winner, Fetchick as the oldest individual winner — we think that's reasonable.
