The MONY Syracuse Senior 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 1982 to 1991. It was played in Syracuse, New York

Syracuse, New York

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 at the Bellevue Country Club (1982-1984) and in Jamesville, New York

Jamesville, New York

Jamesville is a hamlet in De Witt, Onondaga County, New York, United States, part of the greater Syracuse area.The history of the community is documented in the book Water, Wheels and Stone: Heritage of the Little Village by the Creek, Jamesville, New York, written by Jean Schutz Keough, and...

 at the Lafayette Country Club (1985-1991).

The purse for the 1991 tournament was US$400,000, with $60,000 going to the winner. The tournament was founded in 1982 as the Greater Syracuse Senior's Pro Golf Classic.

Winners

MONY Syracuse Senior Classic

• 1991 Rocky Thompson
  Rocky Thompson (golfer)
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• 1990 Jim Dent
  Jim Dent
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• 1989 Jim Dent
  Jim Dent
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• 1988 Dave Hill
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• 1987 Bruce Crampton
  Bruce Crampton
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MONY Syracuse Senior's Pro Golf Classic

• 1986 Bruce Crampton
  Bruce Crampton
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MONY Syracuse Senior's Classic

• 1985 Peter Thomson

Greater Syracuse Senior's Pro Classic

• 1984 Miller Barber
  Miller Barber
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• 1983 Gene Littler
  Gene Littler
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Greater Syracuse Senior's Pro Golf Classic

• 1982 Bill Collins
  Bill Collins (golfer)
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