The FHP Health Care Classic was a golf

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 1987 to 1996. It was played in Simi Valley, California

Simi Valley, California

-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Simi Valley had a population of 124,237. The population density was 2,940.8 people per square mile...

 at the Wood Ranch Golf Club (1987-1988) and in Ojai, California

Ojai, California

Ojai is a city in Ventura County, California, USA. It is situated in the Ojai Valley , surrounded by hills and mountains. The population was 7,461 at the 2010 census, down from 7,862 at the 2000 census.-History:Chumash Indians were the early inhabitants of the valley...

 at the Ojai Valley Inn and Country Club (1989-1996)

The purse for the 1996 tournament was US$800,000, with $120,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1987 as the GTE Classic.

Winners

FHP Health Care Classic

• 1996 Walter Morgan
  Walter Morgan (golfer)
  Walter T. Morgan is an American professional golfer who has played on the Senior PGA Tour .Morgan was born in Haddock, Georgia, where he played baseball in his youth. He served 20 years in the United States Army including two tours of duty in Vietnam. He began playing golf at the age of 30 after...
  
  
• 1995 Bruce Devlin
  Bruce Devlin
  Bruce William Devlin is an Australian professional golfer, sportscaster and golf course designer.Devlin was born in Armidale, Australia. He turned pro in 1961 and joined the PGA Tour in 1962 after an amateur career in Australia which included a win at the Australian Amateur in 1959...
  
  

GTE West Classic

• 1994 Jay Sigel
  Jay Sigel
  Robert Jay Sigel is an American professional golfer. He enjoyed one of the more illustrious careers in the history of U.S...
  
  
• 1993 Al Geiberger
  Al Geiberger
  Allen Lee Geiberger, Sr. is an American professional golfer who has won numerous golf tournaments.Geiberger was born in Red Bluff, California...
  
  
• 1992 Bruce Crampton
  Bruce Crampton
  Bruce Crampton is an Australian professional golfer.Crampton was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and attended Kogarah High School from 1948-1950. He turned professional in 1953....
  
  
• 1991 Chi Chi Rodriguez
• 1989 Walt Zembriski
  Walt Zembriski
  Walter Zembriski is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.Zembriski was born in Mahwah, New Jersey. He taught himself how to play golf while working as a caddie at the Out of Bounds Golf Club in Mahwah...
  
  

GTE Classic

• 1988 Harold Henning
  Harold Henning
  Harold Henning was a South African professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour....
  
  
• 1987 Bob Charles
  Bob Charles (golfer)
  Sir Robert James Charles, ONZ, KNZM, CBE is a New Zealand professional golfer whose achievements over five decades rank him among the most successful left-handed golfers of all time, being the first lefty to win a golf major, winning more than 70 titles, and beating his age twice during a...