Champions Tour Yearly Money Leaders

The golfer who leads the Champions Tour in earnings each year is referred to as the money list leader. Win the most money, you wind up as the money list winner.

And the golfer who finishes the year with the most money is presented with the Arnold Palmer Trophy. (Palmer himself never led the Champions Tour money list. But he did lead the PGA Tour in earnings multiple times, and the same trophy goes to the PGA Tour's annual money leader.)

One golfer has dominated the history of the Champions Tour money list: Bernhard Langer is a 10-time money leader on the senior tour. Hale Irwin and Don January are the only other golfers who've won it at least three times.

Several other golfers won lead the tour in money in consecutive seasons, however. Bob Charles, Dave Stockton, Jim Colbert and Jay Haas all led the money list in back-to-back seasons. Langer has both a three-year streak and a seven-year streak of leading the Champions Tour money list.

Champions Tour Money List Leaders By Year

The senior circuit's money list goes back to 1980. Here are the season-ending leaders for each year of the tour's existence:

2019 — Scott McCarron, $2,534,090
2018 — Bernhard Langer, $2,222,154
2017 — Bernhard Langer, $3,677,359
2016 — Bernhard Langer, $3,016,959
2015 — Bernhard Langer, $2,340,288
2014 — Bernhard Langer, $3,074,189
2013 — Bernhard Langer, $2,448,428
2012 — Bernhard Langer, $2,140,296
2011 — Tom Lehman, $2,081,526
2010 — Bernhard Langer, $2,648,939
2009 — Bernhard Langer, $2,139,451
2008 — Bernhard Langer, $2,035,073
2007 — Jay Haas, $2,581,001
2006 — Jay Haas, $2,420,227
2005 — Dana Quigley, $2,170,258
2004 — Craig Stadler, $2,306,066
2003 — Tom Watson, $1,853,108
2002 — Hale Irwin, $3,028,304
2001 — Allen Doyle, $2,553,582
2000 — Larry Nelson, $2,708,005
1999 — Bruce Fleisher, $2,515,705
1998 — Hale Irwin, $2,861,945
1997 — Hale Irwin, $2,343,364
1996 — Jim Colbert, $1,627,890
1995 — Jim Colbert, $1,444,386
1994 — Dave Stockton, $1,402,519
1993 — Dave Stockton, $1,175,944
1992 — Lee Trevino, $1,027,002
1991 — Mike Hill, $1,065,657
1990 — Lee Trevino, $1,190,518
1989 — Bob Charles, $725,887
1988 — Bob Charles, $533,929
1987 — Chi Chi Rodriguez, $509,145
1986 — Bruce Crampton, $454,299
1985 — Peter Thomson, $386,724
1984 — Don January, $328,597
1983 — Don January, $237,571
1982 — Miller Barber, $106,890
1981 — Miller Barber, $83,136
1980 — Don January, $44,100

The current-season money list standings and the senior career money list can both be viewed within the Champions Tour stats section on PGATour.com.