Jersey Seniors Classic Tournament (European Seniors Tour)

The Jersey Seniors Classic was a professional golf tournament on the European Seniors Tour for close to 20 years. It was played on the island of Jersey in the English Channel. It had many different names over the years, including Jersey Seniors Open and Jersey Legends.

First played: 1996

Last played: 2023

This senior-circuit event was founded in 1996, under the name Hippo Jersey Seniors. It indirectly replaced the Jersey Open, which was a regular (meaning non-Seniors Tour) European Tour tournament played on the island but that was discontinued in 1995.

Winners of the Jersey Seniors Classic

1996 — Maurice Bembridge, 202
1997 — Tommy Horton, 204
1998 — Bob Shearer, 211
1999 — David Jones, 208
2000 — Neil Coles, 207
2001 — Seiji Ebihara, 213 (def. Delroy Cambridge and Dennis Durnian in playoff)
2002 — Delroy Cambridge, 205
2003 — Malcolm Gregson, 203
2004 — Jim Rhodes, 205
2005 — Sam Torrance, 205
2006 — Guillermo Encina, 209
2007 — Bobby Lincoln, 205
2008 — Tony Johnstone, 213
2009 — Delroy Cambridge, 207 (def. Mike Clayton in playoff)
2010 — Gordon Brand Jr., 201
2011–2014 — Not played
2015 — Peter Fowler, 209
2016 — Gordon Manson, 206 (def. Gary Wolstenholme and Ian Woosnam in playoff)
2017–2021 — Not played
2022 — Richard Green, 206 (def. Paul Lawrie in playoff)
2023 — Richard Green, 207

The tournament's first winner was Maurice Bembridge, the first of Bembridge's just two victories on the European Seniors Tour. But Bembridge won by seven strokes, which remained the tournament's record for largest margin of victory.

Tommy Horton is second on the list of golfers with the most European Seniors Tour wins with 23, and one of those was in the Jersey Seniors Classic in 1997. ... European Tour legend Neil Coles was 65 years old when he won the tournament in 2000. That made him the tour's oldest winner, but he broke his own record two years later at age 67 when he won the last of his nine circuit victories.

Delroy Cambridge, the first Jamaican golfer to win on the European Seniors Tour, was the tournament's only 2-time winner until Richard Green won back-to-back in the Jersey Legends' final two years.

Also known as: The event had several name changes and multiple title sponsors over its history. In addition to the names already mentioned, the Jersey Seniors Classic also was known, at various times, as the Microlease Jersey Seniors Open, Microlease Jersey Seniors Masters, Irvine Whitlock Jersey Seniors Classic, Irvine Whitlock Seniors Classic, Matrix Jersey Classic, and Acorn Jersey Classic.

Golf course: This tournament always took place on the same course — La Moye Golf Club in Jersey.