The Gold Rush Classic 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 1987 to 2001. It was played in Rancho Murieta, California

Rancho Murieta, California

Rancho Murieta is a census-designated place and guard-gated community in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,488 at the 2010 census, up from 4,193 at the 2000 census...

 at the Rancho Murieta Country Club (1987-1995) and in El Dorado Hills, California

El Dorado Hills, California

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 at Serrano Country Club (1996-2001).

The purse for the 2001 tournament was US$1,300,000, with $195,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1987 as the Rancho Murieta Senior Gold Rush.

Winners

Gold Rush Classic

• 2001 Tom Kite
  Tom Kite
  Thomas Oliver Kite, Jr. is an American professional golfer and golf course architect. He spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1989 and 1994....
  
  
• 2000 Jim Thorpe
  Jim Thorpe (golfer)
  Jimmy Lee Thorpe is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the Champions Tour.Thorpe was born in Roxboro, North Carolina, the ninth of the twelve children of a fairway superintendent. He attended Morgan State University before turning pro in 1972. He won three times on the PGA Tour...
  
  

Raley's Gold Rush Classic

• 1999 David Graham
  David Graham (golfer)
  Anthony David Graham is a former professional golfer from Australia.Born in Windsor, Australia, Graham turned professional in 1962 at age 16 and spent much of his career in the United States, playing on the PGA Tour. Turning age 50 in 1996, he joined the Senior PGA Tour, later known as the...
  
  
• 1998 Dana Quigley
  Dana Quigley
  Dana C. Quigley is an American professional golfer.Quigley was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1969 and turned professional in 1971....
  
  
• 1997 Bob Eastwood
  Bob Eastwood
  Robert Fred Eastwood is an American professional golfer who has won numerous amateur and professional tournaments.Eastwood was born in Providence, Rhode Island, but spent most of his youth in north-central California. He started playing golf at age 4 as a result of his father being in the golf...
  
  
• 1996 Jim Colbert
  Jim Colbert
  James Joseph Colbert is an American professional golfer.Colbert was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended Kansas State University, where he finished second in the NCAA golf championships in 1964, before graduating and turning professional in 1965.Colbert won eight times on the PGA Tour,...
  
  

Raley's Senior Gold Rush

• 1995 Don Bies
  Don Bies
  Don Bies is an American professional golfer who has won tournaments on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour ....
  
  
• 1994 Bob Murphy
  Bob Murphy (golfer)
  Robert Joseph Murphy, Jr. is an American professional golfer who was formerly a member of the PGA Tour and currently plays on the Champions Tour. Murphy has won 21 tournaments as a professional.-Early years:...
  
  
• 1993 George Archer
  George Archer
  George William Archer was an American golfer who won twelve events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship.Archer was born in San Francisco, California and was raised just south in the city of San Mateo...
  
  
• 1992 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...
  
  
• 1991 George Archer
  George Archer
  George William Archer was an American golfer who won twelve events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship.Archer was born in San Francisco, California and was raised just south in the city of San Mateo...
  
  

Rancho Murieta Senior Gold Rush

• 1990 George Archer
  George Archer
  George William Archer was an American golfer who won twelve events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship.Archer was born in San Francisco, California and was raised just south in the city of San Mateo...
  
  
• 1989 Dave Hill
  Dave Hill (golfer)
  James David Hill was an American professional golfer. He was the brother of golfer Mike Hill.Hill was born in Jackson, Michigan. He attended the University of Detroit, where he played on the golf team. Hill won 13 times on the PGA Tour, three of which came during his career year of 1969, when he...
  
  
• 1988 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...
  
  
• 1987 Orville Moody
  Orville Moody
  Orville 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....