The Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour Champions in Hawaii, on the Big Island. It is played annually in January at the Hualalai Resort Golf Club in Kaʻūpūlehu in the Kona district, and Mitsubishi Electric is the main sponsor. The field consists of the senior major champions of the last five years and other tournament winners of the last two years, plus a few sponsor invitees.
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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Kaupulehu, Hawaii |
| Established | 1984 |
| Course(s) | Hualalai Golf Course |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,107 yards (6,499 m) |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour Champions |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | US$2,000,000 |
| Month played | January |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 54 holes: 191 Loren Roberts (2006) 191 Steven Alker (2024) 72 holes: 279 Bruce Crampton (1991) 279 Jack Nicklaus (1994) |
| To par | 54 holes: −25 as above 72 holes: −9 as above |
| Current champion | |
 Steven Alker | |
| Location map | |
  Hualalai Golf Course Location in Hawaii | |
The purse in 2020 was $1.8 million, with a winner's share of $305,000.
The tournament debuted 40 years ago in 1984 as the senior division within the PGA Tour's MONY Tournament of Champions at LaCosta Resort in Carlsbad, California. The purse was $100,000 and Orville Moody won by seven strokes to take the winner's share of $30,000.[1] It continued as a division of that tournament through 1994,[2] became a separate event in Puerto Rico in 1995,[3] and relocated to Hualalai in 1997.[4][5]
Beginning in 2018, the tournament went to a Thursday through Saturday schedule.
Winners
edit| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Purse ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai | ||||||
| 2024 | 191 | −25 | 4 strokes | 2,000,000 | ||
| 2023 | 193 | −23 | 6 strokes | 2,000,000 | ||
| 2022 | 199 | −17 | Playoff | 2,000,000 | ||
| 2021 | 195 | −21 | 2 strokes | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2020 | 202 | −14 | Playoff | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2019 | 199 | −17 | 1 stroke | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2018 | 198 | −18 | 1 stroke | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2017 | 129[a] | −15 | 1 stroke | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2016 | 198 | −18 | 1 stroke | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2015 | 199 | −17 | 2 strokes | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2014 | 194 | −22 | 3 strokes | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2013 | 199 | −17 | Playoff | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2012 | 201 | −15 | 2 strokes | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2011 | 194 | −22 | 2 strokes | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2010 | 194 | −22 | 1 stroke | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2009 | 198 | −18 | 1 stroke | 1,800,000 | ||
| MasterCard Championship | ||||||
| 2008 | 195 | −21 | 2 strokes | 1,800,000 | ||
| 2007 | 193 | −23 | 5 strokes | 1,700,000 | ||
| 2006 | 191 | −25 | 1 stroke | 1,700,000 | ||
| 2005 | 198 | −18 | Playoff | 1,600,000 | ||
| 2004 | 196 | −20 | 1 stroke | 1,600,000 | ||
| 2003 | 198 | −18 | 2 strokes | 1,600,000 | ||
| 2002 | 199 | −17 | 6 strokes | 1,500,000 | ||
| 2001 | 197 | −19 | 1 stroke | 1,500,000 | ||
| 2000 | 207 | −9 | 2 strokes | 1,200,000 | ||
| 1999 | 203 | −13 | 3 strokes | 1,100,000 | ||
| 1998 | 195 | −21 | 6 strokes | 1,000,000 | ||
| 1997 | 209 | −7 | 2 strokes | 1,000,000 | ||
| Puerto Rico Senior Tournament of Champions | ||||||
| 1996 | 207 | −9 | 1 stroke | 800,000 | ||
| Senior Tournament of Champions | ||||||
| 1995 | 209 | −7 | Playoff | 750,000 | ||
| Mercedes Championships | ||||||
| 1994 | 279 | −9 | 1 stroke | 500,000 | ||
| Infiniti Senior Tournament of Champions | ||||||
| 1993 | 280 | −8 | 2 strokes | 350,000 | ||
| 1992 | 282 | −6 | 3 strokes | 350,000 | ||
| 1991 | 279 | −9 | 4 strokes | 350,000 | ||
| MONY Senior Tournament of Champions | ||||||
| 1990 | 283 | −5 | 7 strokes | 250,000 | ||
| 1989 | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | 250,000 | ||
| 1988 | 211[b] | −5 | 1 stroke | 100,000 | ||
| 1987 | 287 | −1 | Playoff | 100,000 | ||
| 1986 | 282 | −6 | 5 strokes | 100,000 | ||
| 1985 | 284 | −4 | 3 strokes | 100,000 | ||
| 1984 | 288 | E | 7 strokes | 100,000 | ||
Multiple winners
editEight players have won this tournament more than once through 2022.
- 3 wins
- Bernhard Langer: 2009, 2014, 2017
- Miguel Ángel Jiménez: 2015, 2020, 2022
- 2 wins
- John Cook: 2011, 2013
- Hale Irwin: 1997, 2007
- Dana Quigley: 2003, 2005
- George Archer: 1990, 2000
- Al Geiberger: 1992, 1993 (consecutive)
- Miller Barber: 1986, 1989
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ "Nothing's wrong with Watson". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). UPI. May 7, 1984. p. 2B.
- ^ "Nicklaus steals show with win". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. January 10, 1994. p. 3B.
- ^ "PGA Senior Tournament of Champions". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). January 16, 1995. p. 4B.
- ^ "Seniors". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). Associated Press. January 20, 1997. p. 7B.
- ^ "MasterCard Senior". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. January 20, 1997. p. C5.