2005 Tournament News
IRWIN LATEST AMONG TOP GOLFERS COMMITTED
TO 25TH ANNIVERSARY BANK OF AMERICA CHAMPIONSHIP
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.
Commitments to the field include some of the most popular and most of the highest money winners to-date this season on the Champions Tour, and the latest commitment is Hale Irwin. Irwin won the 1997 and 1998 Bank of America Championships, has won twice on the Champions Tour so far this season, Turtle Bay Championship and Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, and ranks first on the Champions Tour’s career money list.
Defending his 2004 Bank of America Championship win will be Craig Stadler, whose victory 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, in addition to Irwin, will be top money winners, including 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.
Some 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.
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 .
