Daytona Beach Seniors Golf Classic
Encyclopedia
The Daytona Beach Seniors Golf Classic was a golf
tournament on the Champions Tour
from 1983 to 1984. It was played in Daytona Beach, Florida
at the Pelican Bay Golf and Country Club, now known as the Club at Pelican Bay.
The purse for the 1984 tournament was US$150,000, with $22,500 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1983 as the Greater Daytona Senior Classic.
Greater Daytona Senior Classic
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament on the Champions Tour
Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...
from 1983 to 1984. It was played in Daytona Beach, Florida
Daytona Beach, Florida
Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, USA. According to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city has a population of 64,211. Daytona Beach is a principal city of the Deltona – Daytona Beach – Ormond Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which the census bureau estimated had...
at the Pelican Bay Golf and Country Club, now known as the Club at Pelican Bay.
The purse for the 1984 tournament was US$150,000, with $22,500 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1983 as the Greater Daytona Senior Classic.
Winners
Daytona Beach Seniors Golf Classic- 1984 Orville MoodyOrville MoodyOrville James Moody was an American professional golfer who won numerous tournaments in his career. He won the 1969 U.S. Open, the last champion in the 20th century to win through local and sectional qualifying....
Greater Daytona Senior Classic
- 1983 Gene LittlerGene LittlerGene Alec Littler is an American professional golfer. Known for a solid temperament and nicknamed "Gene the Machine" for his smooth rhythmical swing, he once said that, "Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the best misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes."-Early years...