Tournament History

	2007 Jay Haas blew past Hale Irwin’s 5-year-old tournament scoring record finishing at 19 under par 194 as the tournament celebrated its 10th Anniversary.
	2006 Brad Bryant birdied five of his final eight holes, including the last hole of regulation to finish with a final-round, 5-under-par 66, a 9-under-par 204 finish.
	2005 Mark Johnson holes out from 91 yards for eagle on the 18th hole on Sunday to capture his first professional title after a steller amateur career.
	2004 Tom Purtzer sets a new course record with an opening round of 60, on his way to a 15 under par 3 day total and a one stroke victory over Morris Hatalsky.
	2003 Rodger Davis, who carried a two-stroke lead into the final round, birdied three of the last eight holes and watched his decorated pursuers fall to the wayside. His final-round 68 carried him to a 54-hole score of 197 (one stroke off the 54-hole tournament record). He earned a four-stroke victory and a first-place check of $232,500. Larry Nelson finished alone in second place at 12 under par. Two past Toshiba Classic champions-Irwin and Jose Maria Canizares-joined Jacobs in a three-way tie for third at 11 under. Davis, a native Australian who was one of the most popular players on the PGA European Tour and the Australasian Tour, has won on five continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and now North America.
	2002 Hale Irwin put on the most commanding show in Toshiba Classic history with his record-breaking performance. Pulling away to a five-stroke victory, Irwin shot 67-64-65 to finish at 17 under par, the best 54-hole score in tournament history. "I kind of hit another gear," explained Irwin, who pocketed $225,000 for his efforts. "I put some space between myself and the others when it got close." Irwin's three-stroke advantage entering the final round never looked in serious jeopardy, and he won the 2002 tournament by a larger margin than the past six Toshiba Classic champions combined. One of those past champions, Allen Doyle, posted a 12-under-par second-place finish that would have been good enough to win in most years at the Toshiba Senior Classic. Dave Stockton and Michael Zinni finished tied for third.
	2001 Jose Maria Canizares rolled in a 21-foot birdie putt on the ninth playoff hole to defeat Gil Morgan, earn $210,000 and claim the first title of his four-year PGA Champions Tour career. Canizares worked his way into the playoff from five strokes back at the start of the final round, tying a Toshiba Senior Classic record. Allen Doyle finished in third place, which was actually his worst finish in three Toshiba Classic starts. PGA Champions Tour legends Tom Watson and Raymond Floyd made their first appearances at Newport Beach Country Club.
	2000 The Toshiba Classic played host to Arnold Palmer, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Hale Irwin, Gary McCord, Jim Colbert, Bruce Fleisher, Tom Kite, Lanny Wadkins, Lee Trevino, Dave Stockton and Larry Nelson. And out of that top-notch field emerged Allen Doyle, who shot a two-round total of 136 to capture the first-place check of $195,000 in the rain-shortened event. Doyle birdied five of the last eight holes during Saturday's second (and final) round to win by one stroke over Jim Thorpe and Howard Twitty.
	1999 Gary McCord claimed his first victory in nearly 400 career starts on the PGA Tour and PGA Champions Tour. McCord's rousing playoff victory over John Jacobs, Allen Doyle and Al Geiberger is still considered one of the greatest finishes in PGA Champions Tour history. Geiberger bogeyed the par-five 18th hole to allow the others into a playoff, and was eliminated along with Doyle when McCord and Jacobs both made eagle on the first playoff hole. Then the two Hawaiian-shirt clad free spirits matched each other until McCord made birdie on the fifth playoff hole to win.
	1998 Hale Irwin finished the tournament with the finest round ever played at Newport Beach Country Club. He fired a 62--besting the course record by two strokes, and prevailing over runner-up Hubert Green by one. Irwin's showing on that Sunday was absolutely commanding. He made 10 birdies against only one bogey. He leapfrogged 11 players who entered the final round ahead of him. He finished with birdies on three of the last four holes. It was Irwin's first victory of the year, propelling him to the finest season in PGA Champions Tour history--one that would see him climb into the winner's circle seven times, collect $2.86 million and win virtually every major award the PGA Champions Tour hands out.
	1997 Bob Murphy outlasted Jay Sigel in what was then the longest playoff in PGA Champions Tour history. The nine-hole playoff had earned the Toshiba Classic almost two extra hours of TV coverage when Murphy rolled in an electrifying 80-foot birdie putt on the two-tiered 17th green to capture a sudden-death victory that was anything but sudden. Murphy entered the final round one stroke behind leader David Graham and still managed to work his way into a playoff with a one-over-par 72. Isao Aoki, Bob Charles and Gil Morgan tied for third.
	1996 Jim Colbert, who entered the final round with a five-stroke lead, remains the tournament's only wire-to-wire champion. His title helped pave the way to a second consecutive PGA Champions Tour Player of the Year award. Bob Eastwood finished alone in second, capping his week with a final-round 64. That score would stand as the course record until 1996 third-place finisher, Hale Irwin, shattered it two years later.
	1995 George Archer triumphed in the inaugural tournament in 1995, the only time the event was held outside of Newport Beach Country Club. In what would prove to be a pattern at the Toshiba Classic, Archer squeaked out a narrow one-stroke victory, shooting 64 on the final day to best Dave Stockton and Tom Wargo. Archer hinted about retiring prior to the Toshiba Classic because of a degenerative hip condition, but his tournament-clinching 25-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole erased any talk about that.

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