The Pacific Northwest Senior PGA Championship, also known as the PNW Senior PGA Championship, is 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....

 championship for senior players held annually, usually in September in the Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...

. It is affiliated with the PGA of America. The Senior PGA Professional Championship was established in 1952, although a Pacific Northwest Senior Golf Championship had existed long before then at an amateur level and was even won by a former tennis star Bernie Schwengers

Bernie Schwengers

Bernhard Peter Schwengers . was a British-born Canadian tennis player, baseball player, and all-round sportsman...

 in 1943. In the 1960s, it was held for years at the Yakima Elks' Golf and Country Club between 21 players with prize money of just $920 dollars.
The 2011 competition is being held on September 8-9 at the Bear Creek Country Club in Woodinville, Washington

Woodinville, Washington

Woodinville is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,938 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Seattle metropolitan area. There is also a much larger population with Woodinville mailing addresses in adjacent unincorporated areas of King and Snohomish counties...

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Winners

• 2010 Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston is an American professional golfer and one of the top golf instructors in the country.-Biography:Coston cites watching Jack Nicklaus tee off in the 1965 Greater Seattle Open Invitational at Inglewood Country Club as the moment he realized his wanted to dedicate his life to golf. He...
  
  
• 2009 Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston is an American professional golfer and one of the top golf instructors in the country.-Biography:Coston cites watching Jack Nicklaus tee off in the 1965 Greater Seattle Open Invitational at Inglewood Country Club as the moment he realized his wanted to dedicate his life to golf. He...
  
  
• 2008 Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston is an American professional golfer and one of the top golf instructors in the country.-Biography:Coston cites watching Jack Nicklaus tee off in the 1965 Greater Seattle Open Invitational at Inglewood Country Club as the moment he realized his wanted to dedicate his life to golf. He...
  
  
• 2007 Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston is an American professional golfer and one of the top golf instructors in the country.-Biography:Coston cites watching Jack Nicklaus tee off in the 1965 Greater Seattle Open Invitational at Inglewood Country Club as the moment he realized his wanted to dedicate his life to golf. He...
  
  
• 2006 Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston
  Jeff Coston is an American professional golfer and one of the top golf instructors in the country.-Biography:Coston cites watching Jack Nicklaus tee off in the 1965 Greater Seattle Open Invitational at Inglewood Country Club as the moment he realized his wanted to dedicate his life to golf. He...
  
  
• 2005 Fred Haney
• 2004 Don Bies
  Don Bies
  Don Bies is an American professional golfer who has won tournaments on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour ....
  
  
• 2003 Ed Fisher
• 2002 Fred Haney
• 2001 Jerry Lee
• 2000 Chuck Milne
• 1999 Michael Kahler
• 1998 Elwin Fanning
• 1997 Jim Wilkinson
• 1996 Bill Tindall
• 1995 Jim Wilkinson
• 1994 Ted Naff
• 1993 Gerry Mehlert
• 1992 Gerry Mehlert
• 1991 Tim Berg
• 1990 Lloyd Harris
• 1989 Ted Naff
• 1988 Tim Berg
• 1987 Jim Shriver
• 1986 Billy Derickson
• 1985 Ray Bennett
• 1984 Geo Lanning
• 1983 Geo Lanning
• 1982 Bob Duden
  Bob Duden
  Robert W. Duden was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.A life-long resident of Portland, Oregon, Duden compiled a remarkable record in sectional golf competition...
  
  
• 1981 Harvey Hixson
• 1980 Don Kirkpatrick
• 1979 Bob Duden
  Bob Duden
  Robert W. Duden was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.A life-long resident of Portland, Oregon, Duden compiled a remarkable record in sectional golf competition...
  
  
• 1978 Bob Duden
  Bob Duden
  Robert W. Duden was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.A life-long resident of Portland, Oregon, Duden compiled a remarkable record in sectional golf competition...
  
  
• 1977 Ernie Luckenotte
• 1976 Bob Duden
  Bob Duden
  Robert W. Duden was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.A life-long resident of Portland, Oregon, Duden compiled a remarkable record in sectional golf competition...
  
  
• 1975 Bob Duden
  Bob Duden
  Robert W. Duden was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.A life-long resident of Portland, Oregon, Duden compiled a remarkable record in sectional golf competition...
  
  
• 1974 Al Williams
• 1973 Bob Duden
  Bob Duden
  Robert W. Duden was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.A life-long resident of Portland, Oregon, Duden compiled a remarkable record in sectional golf competition...
  
  
• 1972 Bud Hofmeister
• 1971 Bob Duden
  Bob Duden
  Robert W. Duden was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.A life-long resident of Portland, Oregon, Duden compiled a remarkable record in sectional golf competition...
  
  
• 1970 Bill Isbill