The Old Guys Tee It Up Again

While the ladies on the LET are playing in Morocco this week (just like the ET), I haven't shown the Champions Tour much love yet this season so let's take a look at them today. (You can keep up with the ladies over at Mostly Harmless and at the LET website.)



After about a month's hiatus the Champions Tour is back in action at the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, CA. Toshiba is the longest-running sponsor on the Champions Tour and has recently renewed their contract through 2017, so this is comfortable ground for the players.

And perhaps because of that, the big names tend to show up for this event. The winners of the 3 events so far this season -- Bernhard Langer, Michael Allen, and Kirk Triplett -- are all in the field, as are Fred Couples, Tom Watson, Hal Sutton (back after heart surgery), Kenny Perry, Craig Stadler, Hale Irwin, and Rocco Mediate, among others.

I should also mention that David Frost is defending.

Duffy Waldorf (pictured above) is also playing, and he's my pick to win it this week. Duffy wasn't qualified for the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai (their Tournament of Champions) to start the year, but he lost in a playoff at Allianz and came in T2 at the ACE Group. I'm figuring he's about due for a win!

GC will start broadcasting tonight from 6:30pm-9:30pm ET, which probably means a LIVE broadcast. (There's a 3-hour time difference between the East and West Coasts of the US.)