Ohio's Golf Magazine May 2009 : Page 11
Senior PGA Championship continued from page 10 Cook is 13th and Sindelar 4th on the Champions Tour money list going into the Regions Charity Classic, May 15-17, the final tune-up for the Senior PGA. Sindelar will be looking for his first major title and his first win on the Champions Tour. He told Ohio’s Golf in a December feature story that he expects to win on the senior tour. Jim Logue - Canton For tickets and tournament information, go to www.seniorpga2009.com OG “I think I am good enough to win a couple of tournaments,” Sindelar said. “I am disappointed that I didn’t win one this year (in 2008), but I was very aware of the caliber of competition. They are actually better than I expected.” Sindelar said he wants to add a major championship to his seven PGA Tour trophies. I am very interested in winning a senior major,” Sindelar said. “I talked with Jay Haas and he said it was really cool. Every guy I have asked that won a senior tour major has said the same thing.” Cory George, who played collegiately at Purdue, has much more modest expectations. He hopes to play the weekend and will enjoy the experience, which will include spending time with his son Bleu, a sophomore on the Tiffin University golf team who will be his caddy during the week. “Whenever you are a PGA golf pro and you play golf for a living, it is nice to be treated like a Tour pro one time,” George said. Thomas Herzan - Findlay the course again until the pre- tournament practice rounds, but said the new routing won’t change his approach. “I don’t know if the strategy will be any different,” Herzan told Ohio’s Golf. “I plan to keep it under the hole because the greens can be pretty tricky. At that time of year it will play reasonably long, but not too long.” The 139-player field will include 25 major champions, 13 Ryder Cup captains and 10 members of the World Golf Hall of Fame. The defending champion is Jay Haas, who captured his second Senior PGA crown last year at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y. Other golfers in the field with Ohio ties will include former Ohio State teammates Joey Sindelar and John Cook, who partnered to finish T3 in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf better- ball event April 24-26 in Savannah, Ga. WWW.OHIOSGOLF.COM • MAY 2009 11
