Senior PGA Championship Returns to Benton Harbor The Senior PGA Championship will celebrate the 82nd edition at the Golf Club at Harbor Shores, in Benton Harbor, May 25-29. The first Senior PGA Championship was held at Augusta National Golf Club in 1937. Now, as then, it recognizes the best professional golfer over the age of 50. Alex Chejka is the reigning Senior PGA Champion as he won last year at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Chejka recorded his best month ever as a professional golfer when he won the Tradition on May 9 and finished the month by winning the Senior PGA Championship. His first two wins on the Champions Tour were majors times and when Jack Nicklaus was contracted to design a unique golf test. It has brought an economic rebirth to the area. Kerry Wright, Harbor Shores’ director of real estate sales, described the unlikely chain of events that brought Mr. Nicklaus to Michigan. “Whirlpool’s nonprofit division saw this land on the water that it wanted to transform. It was the idea of the company’s and quickly established him as a force on the senior circuit. In an interview with Back 9 Report Chejka talked about playing around the world, staying fit and winning two majors on the PGA Champions. Watch the full video here: Mou – leave a box for video Located in the Southwestern corner of Michigan on the Lake Michigan coast, Harbor Shores is a beach, golf and residential waterfront community. Benton Harbor had fallen upon hard Indiana Golf Journal
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