As the World watches the Masters Championship this weekend at Augusta National Golf Club, golf fans in Michigan’s Great Southwest are looking ahead six weeks to their opportunity to watch some of the greatest golfers on the planet compete right here in our own backyard. May 26-29 at Harbor Shores.
The field of competitors for the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship is growing in quality and golf heritage each week as golfers make their final plans for this phase of the PGA Tour Champions season.
Here’s the latest official update on ‘who’s competing’ from the PGA office:
Twenty-seven major champions are in the field:
Rich Beem (PGA Championship), Mark Brooks (PGA Championship), Mark Calcavecchia (The Open), Michael Campbell (U.S. Open), Darren Clarke (The Open), Fred Couples (The Masters), John Daly (PGA Championship, The Open), David Duval (The Open), Ernie Els (U.S. Open, The Open), Jim Furyk (U.S. Open), Retief Goosen (U.S. Open), Todd Hamilton (The Open), Padraig Harrington (PGA Championship, The Open), Lee Janzen (U.S. Open), Steve Jones (U.S. Open), Bernhard Langer (The Masters), Tom Lehman (The Open), Sandy Lyle (The Masters, The Open), Shaun Micheel (PGA Championship), Larry Mize (The Masters), Jose Maria Olazabal (The Masters), Corey Pavin (U.S. Open), Vijay Singh (The Masters, PGA Championship), Jeff Sluman (PGA Championship), David Toms (PGA Championship), Mike Weir (The Masters), and Y.E. Yang (PGA Championship).
Eleven KitchenAid Senior PGA Champions are also in the field:
Michael Allen (2009), Paul Broadhurst (2018), Alex Cejka (2021), Roger Chapman (2012), Jay Haas (2006, 2008), Bernhard Langer (2017), Tom Lehman (2010), Rocco Mediate (2016), Colin Montgomerie (2014, 2015), Mike Reid (2005) and Ken Tanigawa (2019).
Here’s a look at the participants who have entered the field for the 2022 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship (4/7/22):
Alker, Steven – NEW ZEALAND
Allen, Michael – Paradise Valley, Arizona
Allenby, Robert – AUSTRALIA
Ames, Stephen – CANADA
Andrade, Billy – Bristol, Rhode Island
Appleby, Stuart – AUSTRALIA
Austin, Woody – Derby, Kansas
Bahr, Dave (cp) – Cincinnati, Ohio
Baker, Peter – ENGLAND
Barron, Doug – Germantown, Tennessee
Beckman, Cameron – San Antonio, Texas
Beem, Rich – Austin, Texas
Bertsch, Shane – Parker, Colorado
Biancalana, Roy (cp) – St. Charles, Illinois
Bickerton, John – ENGLAND
Bjorn, Thomas – DENMARK
Branshaw, David – Tampa, Florida
Brier, Markus – AUSTRIA
Broadhurst, Paul – ENGLAND
Brooks, Mark – Austin, Texas
Calcavecchia, Mark – Jupiter, Florida
Campbell, Michael – NEW ZEALAND
Cantwell, Tim (cp) – Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Carter, Jim (cp) – Scottsdale, Arizona
Cejka, Alex – GERMANY
Chapman, Roger – ENGLAND
Chapman, Walt (cp) – Knoxville, Tennessee
Chiles, Eric (cp) – Excelsior, Minnesota
Choi, K.J. – REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Clarke, Darren – NORTHERN IRELAND
Claxton, Paul (cp) – Claxton, Georgia
Coceres, Jose – ARGENTINA
Couples, Fred – Corona Del Mar, California
Crowley, Michael (cp) – Fox Point, Wisconsin
Daly, John – Dardanelle, Arkansas
Dawson, Marco – Melbourne, Florida
Day, Glen – Little Rock, Arkansas
Dennis, Clark – Fort Worth, Texas
DiMarco, Chris – Denver, Colorado
Dodd, Stephen – WALES
Duke, Ken – Stuart, Florida
Dunlap, Scott – Sarasota, Florida
Durant, Joe – Pensacola Beach, Florida
Duval, David – Cherry Hills Village, Colorado
Els, Ernie – SOUTH AFRICA
Empey, Jim (cp) – Boise, Idaho
Esposito, Frank (cp) – Florham Park, New Jersey
Farrell, Jimmy (cp) – Commack, New York
Fleming, Tim (cp) – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Flesch, Steve – Union, Kentucky
Fowler, Peter – AUSTRALIA
Franz, Jr., Raymond (cp) – Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Frost, David – SOUTH AFRICA
Funk, Fred – Austin, Texas
Furyk, Jim – Jacksonville, Florida
Gay, Brian – Windemere, Florida
Genovese, Mike (cp) – Loxley, Alabama
George, Larry (cp) – Wallace, North Carolina
Gillis, Tom – Lake Orion, Michigan
Gomez, Rafael – ARGENTINA
Gonzalez, Ricardo – ARGENTINA
Goosen, Retief – SOUTH AFRICA
Goydos, Paul – Long Beach, California
Haas, Jay – Greenville, South Carolina
Haeggman, Joakim – SWEDEN
Hamilton, Todd – Westlake, Texas
Harrington, Padraig – IRELAND
Herron, Tim – Deephaven, Minnesota
Hutsell, David (cp) – Lutherville, Maryland
Jaidee, Thongchai* – THAILAND
Janzen, Lee – Orlando, Florida
Jimenez, Miguel Angel – SPAIN
Jobe, Brandt – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Jones, Steve – Tempe, Arizona
Karlsson, Robert – SWEDEN
Kelly, Jerry – Madison, Wisconsin
Kingston, James – SOUTH AFRICA
Kuboya, Kenichi – JAPAN
Labritz, Rob (cp) – Pound Ridge, New York
Lancaster, Neal (cp) – Smithfield, North Carolina
Langer, Bernhard – GERMANY
Leaney, Stephen – AUSTRALIA
Lehman, Tom – Scottsdale, Arizona
Levet, Thomas – FRANCE
Lyle, Sandy – SCOTLAND
Maggert, Jeff – Sea Pines, South Carolina
Mansfield, Jonathan (cp) – Clearwater, Florida
Mayfair, Billy – Edmond, Oklahoma
McCarron, Scott – Mooresville, North Carolina
McGinley, Paul – IRELAND
McNabb, Dave (cp) – Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania
Mediate, Rocco – Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Micheel, Shaun – Memphis, Tennessee
Mielke, Mark (cp) – Atlantis, Florida
Mitchum, Kelly (cp) – Southern Pines, North Carolina
Mize, Larry – Columbus, Georgia
Molina, Mauricio – ARGENTINA
Montgomerie, Colin – SCOTLAND
Morin, Alan (cp) – Royal Palm Beach, Florida
Morland IV, David – CANADA
Olazabal, Jose Maria – SPAIN
Pampling, Rod – AUSTRALIA
Parel, Scott – Augusta, Georgia
Pate, Steve – Delray Beach, Florida
Pavin, Corey – Dallas, Texas
Pernice, Tom – Scottsdale, Arizona
Petrovic, Tim – Austin, Texas
Phillips, Tracy (cp) – Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ponchock, Del (cp) – Jupiter, Florida
Price, Phillip – WALES
Pride, Dicky – Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Proehl, Chad (cp) – Urbandale, Iowa
Quigley, Brett – Barrington, Rhode Island
Reid, Mike – Orem, Utah
Remesy, Jean-Francois – FRANCE
Riegger, John – Paducah, Kentucky
Rohrbaugh, Doug (cp) – Carbondale, Colorado
Roth, Jeff (cp) – Harbor Springs, Michigan
Rudosky, Micah (cp) – Cortez, Colorado
San Filippo, Mike (cp) – Hobe Sound, Florida
Sauers, Gene – Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Shacklady, David – ENGLAND
Short, Jr., Wes – Austin, Texas
Singh, Vijay – FIJI
Sluman, Jeff – Hinsdale, Illinois
Small, Mike (cp) – Champaign, Illinois
Sorensen, Chad (cp) – Taft, California
Sowards, Bob (cp) – Dublin, Ohio
Stolz, Andre – AUSTRALIA
Stricker, Steve – Madison, Wisconsin
Sutherland, Kevin – Sacramento, California
Tanigawa, Ken – Scottsdale, Arizona
Toms, David – Shreveport, Louisiana
Triplett, Kirk – Paradise Valley, Arizona
Uresti, Omar (cp) – Austin, Texas
Valicenti, Mike (cp) – Jupiter, Florida
Waldorf, Duffy – Rensselaer, Indiana
Weir, Mike – CANADA
Wilson, Peter – ENGLAND
Winter, Don (cp) – Ripon, California
Yang, Y.E. – REPUBLIC OF KOREA
(cp) Denotes PGA of America Club Professional
