Champions Tour Newcomer Price, Long-time Favorite Trevino Will Play at 2007 Bank of America Championship
Field now includes nine top-10 all-around players and seven top-10 money leaders
For Immediate Release, April 24, 2007:
CONCORD, Mass. – Champions tour newcomer Nick Price and perennial fan favorite Lee Trevino will play in this year’s twenty-seventh annual Bank of America Championship, Nashawtuc Country Club, Concord, June 18-24. The field now includes nine players with the best Champions Tour stats so far this season and seven top-10 money leaders.
Price turned 50 in January and has played five tournaments so far during this Champions Tour season. His best finish was T7 this past weekend at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf. He achieved 18 victories on the PGA TOUR, including two PGA Championships, 1992 and 1994, and the 1994 British Open Championship. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.
Trevino, another World Golf Hall of Famer, had back surgery in the off season, and his well known back problems have hampered his play, but not his popularity with fans. He made his first Champions Tour appearance of the year last weekend at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf. Trevino has won 29 times on the Champions Tour and won 29 times on the PGA TOUR, including the 1968 U.S. Open Championship, 1971 and 1972 British Open Championships and 1973 and 1984 PGA Championships.
Scott Hoch, who won 11 times on the PGA TOUR, also recently committed to playing at this year’s Bank of America Championship. He finished in the top 40 on the PGA TOUR money list every year from 1982 to 2002, except 1992 because of shoulder surgery. He ranks ninth on the Champions Tour’s all time money leader list.
Hoch joins Chip Beck, Brad Bryant, Jay Haas, Curtis Strange and Tom Watson, who will play their first Bank of America Championships this year.
The nine Champions Tour players who have the best overall stats so far this year and who will compete at Nashawtuc in June are Eduardo Romero (2), Denis Watson (3), Tom Kite (4), Mike Reid (5), Tom Purtzer (6), Keith Fergus (7), D.A. Weibring (8), Bryant (9) and Bobby Wadkins (T10). Top-10 money leaders are Haas (1), Purtzer (4), Fergus (5), Kite (6), Bryant (7), Bobby Wadkins (8) and Mark James (10). Former Bank of America Championship winners at Nashawtuc will include defending champion Mark McNulty (2005), Jim Albus, (1994), Jim Dent (1996), Allen Doyle (2003) and Craig Stadler (2004).
The 2007 Bank of America Championship field so far now includes:
Albus, Jim
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Fleisher, Bruce |
Levi, Wayne |
The twenty-seventh annual Bank of America Championship is the oldest 54-hole tournament on the Champions Tour and has been held at Nashawtuc Country Club since 1984. Over the past 26 years, the tournament has donated more than $4.5 million to local charities. Up-to-date tournament information is available and tickets may be purchased online at www.bankofamericachampionship.com. For corporate or group ticket packages or to order tickets by phone, call toll-free 1-877-559-GOLF.
Contact:
Nick Ingala, 115 Main St., Ste. 1C-A, North Easton, MA 02356
508-238-2800 Office & Fax, 617-291-3495 Cell, njingala@comcast.net
