Wendy's Champions Skins Game

The Wendy's Champions Skins Game was an unofficial golf tournament on the Champions Tour. It was played annually in January/February in Maui, Hawaii at Kaanapali Golf Resort (Royal Kaanapali Golf Course). Wendy's was the main sponsor of the tournament. Before that, from 2001 through 2007, it was played at the Wailea Golf Club in Maui on their Gold Course.[1]

The tournament was founded in 1988 as the Senior Skins Game. It was played in a skins game format where each hole, and the money or "skin" associated with it, was won by one player only if they win that hole outright. If no player won the hole, the "skin" carried over to the next hole. From 1988 to 2005, it was played as an individual event with four players (five in 1991). Beginning in 2006, it was played as an alternate-shot two-man team event with four teams.

The tournament was discontinued in December 2011.[2] The purse for the final tournament in 2011 was US$770,000.

Winners
Team event (2006–2011)
YearWinnersRunners-up
Wendy's Champions Skins Game
2011United States Jack Nicklaus and United States Tom WatsonGermany Bernhard Langer and United States Mark O'Meara
2010United States Jack Nicklaus and United States Tom WatsonUnited States Ben Crenshaw and United States Fuzzy Zoeller
2009United States Ben Crenshaw and United States Fuzzy ZoellerAustralia Greg Norman and United States Jay Haas
2008United States Peter Jacobsen and United States Fuzzy ZoellerUnited States Jack Nicklaus and United States Tom Watson
2007United States Jack Nicklaus and United States Tom WatsonSouth Africa Gary Player and United States Jay Haas
2006United States Raymond Floyd and United States Dana QuigleyUnited States Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson
Individual event (1988–2005)
YearWinnerCountryRunner-up
Wendy's Champions Skins Game
2005Jack Nicklaus United StatesUnited States Craig Stadler
2004Tom Watson United StatesUnited States Arnold Palmer
ConAgra Foods Champions Skins Game
2003Lee Trevino United StatesUnited States Hale Irwin
Senior Skins Game
2002Hale Irwin United StatesUnited States Jack Nicklaus
2001Hale Irwin United StatesUnited States Jack Nicklaus
2000Gary Player South AfricaUnited States Tom Watson
1999Hale Irwin United StatesUnited States Raymond Floyd
1998Raymond Floyd United StatesUnited States Hale Irwin
1997Raymond Floyd United StatesUnited States Jack Nicklaus
1996Raymond Floyd United StatesUnited States Jim Colbert
1995Raymond Floyd United StatesUnited States Jack Nicklaus
1994Raymond Floyd United StatesUnited States Arnold Palmer
1993Arnold Palmer United StatesPuerto Rico Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1992Arnold Palmer United StatesPuerto Rico Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1991Jack Nicklaus United StatesUnited States Lee Trevino
1990Arnold Palmer United StatesUnited States Jack Nicklaus
1989Chi-Chi Rodríguez Puerto RicoSouth Africa Gary Player
1988Chi-Chi Rodríguez Puerto RicoSouth Africa Gary Player

References
  1. "Golf's Most Legendary Players". Wailea Golf Club. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  2. "Kaanapali officials: Champions Skins Game off for 2012". Maui News. December 6, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
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