The Denver Champions of Golf was a golf

Golf

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 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 1982 to 1987.
It was played in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

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 at the Pinehurst Country Club (1982), at the Green Gables Country Club (1983), and in Castle Rock, Colorado

Castle Rock, Colorado

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 at the TPC at Plum Creek (1984-1987).

The purse for the 1987 tournament was US$250,000, with $37,500 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1982 as the Denver Post Champions of Golf.

Winners

The Denver Champions of Golf

• 1987 Bruce Crampton
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Denver Post Champions of Golf

• 1986 Gary Player
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• 1985 Lee Elder
  Lee Elder
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• 1984 Miller Barber
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• 1983 Don January
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• 1982 Arnold Palmer
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