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Champions
Return to RVA
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CLASSIC was already beloved among
PGA Tour Champions players. In 2017, the
championship—the first of three Charles
Schwab Cup playoff events that cap the
Tour’s season—was voted as the players’
favorite event in which to play, the second
straight year it has earned the honor.
The event—which returns to the Coun-
try Club of Virginia’s James River Course
Oct. 19–21, has made an indelible impres-
sion on fans in the Commonwealth as well,
especially in 2017, when an iconic legend
won the tournament with an iconic putt.
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Bernhard Langer, who has won more
senior majors than anyone in history,
pumped his arms and celebrated by pitch-
ing his visor to the green after making an
18-foot eagle putt to win last year’s event
by a stroke over Scott Verplank.
What sort of excitement awaits when
the DECC returns to CCV this October? If
it’s anything like what happened in 2017,
fans should be in for a treat.
TWEAKED FORMULA
Like the PGA Tour with the FedEx Cup
playoffs, the PGA Tour Champions utilizes a
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playoff to determine its season-long champi-
on. Last year, the DECC moved up a week in
the schedule to lessen travel for players, who
previously went from North Carolina to Cal-
ifornia and back to Richmond in the span of
three weeks. As the first event in the Schwab
Cup playoffs, the top 72 money winners from
the full season advance to Richmond.
After the DECC, the top 54 players con-
tinue on to the PowerShares QQQ Champi-
onship in California, and the top 36 players
remaining after that event advance to the
Charles Schwab Cup Championship in
Phoenix Nov. 8–11.
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COUNTRY CLUB OF VIRGINIA’S JAMES RIVER COURSE | OCTOBER 19–21