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)

Year	Winners	Runners-up
Wendy's Champions Skins Game
2011	Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson	Bernhard Langer and Mark O'Meara
2010	Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson	Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller
2009	Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller	Greg Norman and Jay Haas
2008	Peter Jacobsen and Fuzzy Zoeller	Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson
2007	Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson	Gary Player and Jay Haas
2006	Raymond Floyd and Dana Quigley	Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson

Individual event (1988–2005)

Year	Winner	Country	Runner-up
Wendy's Champions Skins Game
2005	Jack Nicklaus	United States	Craig Stadler
2004	Tom Watson	United States	Arnold Palmer
ConAgra Foods Champions Skins Game
2003	Lee Trevino	United States	Hale Irwin
Senior Skins Game
2002	Hale Irwin	United States	Jack Nicklaus
2001	Hale Irwin	United States	Jack Nicklaus
2000	Gary Player	South Africa	Tom Watson
1999	Hale Irwin	United States	Raymond Floyd
1998	Raymond Floyd	United States	Hale Irwin
1997	Raymond Floyd	United States	Jack Nicklaus
1996	Raymond Floyd	United States	Jim Colbert
1995	Raymond Floyd	United States	Jack Nicklaus
1994	Raymond Floyd	United States	Arnold Palmer
1993	Arnold Palmer	United States	Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1992	Arnold Palmer	United States	Chi-Chi Rodríguez
1991	Jack Nicklaus	United States	Lee Trevino
1990	Arnold Palmer	United States	Jack Nicklaus
1989	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	Gary Player
1988	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	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.

External links

• PGATOUR.com tournament site