2005 Tournament News
TOP GOLFERS COMMIT EARLY TO PLAY
IN 25TH ANNIVERSARY BANK OF AMERICA CHAMPIONSHIP
May 23, 2005
CONCORD, Mass - Fans will get the chance to watch some of the best golfers in the game when seventy-eight PGA TOUR Champions Tour players tee up at the twenty-fifth anniversary Bank of America Championship at Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, June 20-26.
Early commitments to the field include some of the most popular and highest money winners on the Champions Tour. To-date, 15 of the top-20 money winners so far this season have committed.
Amidst the competitive, fan friendly Champions Tour environment, Craig "The Walrus" Stadler will defend his 2004 Bank of America Championship win, which came after a tournament record final round 64 and on the same day his son Kevin won the Nationwide Tour’s Lake Erie Charity Classic.
Trying to keep Stadler from notching a second consecutive Bank of America Championship victory will be top money winners like Allen Doyle, Keith Fergus, Bruce Fleisher, Morris Hatalsky, Tom Jenkins, Wayne Levi, Mark McNulty, Don Pooley, Dana Quigley, Des Smyth, Jim Thorpe, Tom Wargo, D.A. Weibring and Mark Johnson and Mike Reid, who are in their first Champions Tour season.
Other popular players committed to the field include Bruce Lietzke, Lanny Wadkins and Ben Crenshaw. Spectators will see several players take to the course in their first Champions Tour season, including Brad Bryant, Pat McGowan, Tom McKnight, Dan Pohl and Mike Sullivan.
Native New Englanders Quigley and Doyle are the hometown favorites. Quigley won this year's MasterCard Championship and has teed up in every Champions Tour event in the last seven seasons. Doyle has scored nine Champions Tour victories, including the 2003 Bank of America Championship.
Levi leads the Tour in top-10 finishes this season with seven,
closely followed by Hatalsky, McNulty, Pooley and Stadler. Smyth and
Thorpe each have won two tournaments so far this season, and Quigley and
Johnson each have won one.
As if championship golf were not enough, the Bank of America
Championship's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration will include a
ceremony on Saturday, June 25, featuring military color guards and a
dessert reception with many past tournament champions. Also, all active
duty military, guard and reserve receive free grounds admission to the
tournament that day.
For tickets to the twenty-fifth anniversary Bank of America
Championship, call the tournament office toll-free at 1-877-559-GOLF,
e-mail
tickets@bankofamericachampionship.com or visit the tournament
online at
www.bankofamericachampionship.com.
