Friday, December 14, 2012

TOM LEHMAN IS CHAMPIONS' TOUR PLAYER OF THE YEAR

TOM LEHMAN ... won close on $2million in 2012 

NEWS RELEASE FROM THE US CHAMPIONS TOUR
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida -- The Champions Tour has announced Tom Lehman as Champions Tour Player of the Year. 
Lehman, from Scottsdale, Arizona, receives the Jack Nicklaus Award after recording two victories this year; the Regions Tradition, a major on the Champions Tour, and the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship. 
Lehman captured the Charles Schwab Cup for the second consecutive year, becoming the first player in the 12-year history of the Cup to achieve back-to-back titles.
With the announcement, Lehman becomes the fifth player to earn consecutive Player of the Year awards on the Champions Tour, joining Jim Colbert (1995, 1996), Hale Irwin (1997, 1998), Jay Haas (2006, 2007) and Bernhard Langer (2008, 2009, 2010).Lehman's $1,982,575 in official earnings secured the No. 2 position on the final money list behind Bernhard Langer, who was the only player to surpass $2 million in official earnings in 2012.
"When you have your peers voting on this award and they select you, it's a great honor and it has very significant meaning and I certainly appreciate that," said Lehman, who won the vote which included six other nominees, Michael Allen, Roger Chapman, Fred Couples, Fred Funk, Bernhard Langer and Willie Wood. 
"When I look at the year that Bernhard had, and what Roger Chapman accomplished, and all the other guys who played well throughout the year, I didn't feel like anyone was a lock for Player of the Year.
"I felt like Bernhard had the inside track so I was a bit surprised. To win two awards in a row is very special. It's nice to feel like I maintained a high level of play beyond just one season."

Bernhard Langer won Arnold Palmer Award as the Champions Tour's leading money winner for a record fourth time. He also won the award in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Langer, who lives at Boca Raton, Florida, was the only senior player to surpass $2 million during the season, earning $2,140,296 in 20 starts. He posted 17 top-10 finishes, including victories at the 3M Championship and the SAS Championship.Kirk Tripless was named the Champions Tour Rookie of the Year. Triplett, a Scottsdale, Ariz. resident who turned 50 on March 29,Tour, made 18 starts, and finished 19th on the money list with $833,717.
Fred Couples claimed the Byron Nelson Award as the Champions Tour scoring leader. With a 68.52 scoring average for the year, Couples, a Seattle, Washington native, won twice from just 11 starts and never finished worse than 12th.

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