Fred Couples makes senior debut

in Hawaii skins event

FROM THE ESPN.COM WEBSITE
By Bob Harig
Fred Couples, who turned 50 in October, will make his US Champions (Seniors) Tour debut at the Wendy's Champions Skins Game in Hawaii in mid-January.
Couples, pictured, will partner Nick Price in the alternate-shot format event that will be played at Royal Kaanapali Golf Course.
Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Gary Player are also competing in the Jan. 16-17 tournament, which is in its 23rd year. This will be the fifth with a foursomes (alternate-shot) team format.
The teams will play nine holes each day, with the event televised by ESPN on February 27-28.
Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller will return to defend their 2009 title. Nicklaus and Watson will be teammates for the fifth straight year. Player's teammate will be Loren Roberts.
The $770,000 purse has $30,000 distributed for each of the first six holes, $40,000 for each of the next six, $50,000 for holes 13 through 17 and $100,000 for the 18th hole. Prize money is carried over if no team wins a hole outright.
Couples, who captained the US Presidents Cup team to victory last month, won 15 times in his US PGA Tour career, including the 1992 Masters.