Tournament Players Championship (United Kingdom)

Tournament Players Championship
Tournament information
Location Great Britain
Established 1977
Tour(s) European Tour
Format Stroke play
Final year 1984
Tournament record score
Aggregate 265 Jaime Gonzalez (1984)
To par −18 Nick Faldo (1982)
Final champion
Brazil Jaime Gonzalez

The Tournament Players Championship was a European Tour golf tournament which was played in either England or Scotland each year from 1977 to 1984. Except in the first two years the official name took the form "[Sponsor's name] TPC".

"Tournament Players Championship" was also the original name of the PGA Tour's Players Championship, which is the richest event on that tour, but in Europe the TPC tag has been applied variously to this British event and to otherwise unrelated events in Germany, the Deutsche Bank Open TPC of Europe, and in Portugal, the Portuguese Open TPC, and does not confer any particular status. Indeed, the British event had somewhat below average prize money for a European Tour event.

Winners of the Tournament Players Championship included two major champions, Nick Faldo of England and Bernhard Langer of Germany.

Winners

YearVenueWinnerCountryScore
St. Mellion Timeshare TPC
1984 St. Mellion G & CC Jaime Gonzalez  Brazil 265 (−15)PO
1983 St. Mellion G & CC Bernhard Langer  West Germany 269 (−11)
Haig Whisky TPC
1982 Notts Golf Club (Hollinwell) Nick Faldo  England 270 (−18)
1981 Dalmahoy GC Brian Barnes  Scotland 276 (−8)PO
1980 Moortown GC Bernard Gallacher  Scotland 268 (−8)
SOS Talisman TPC
1979 Moor Park GC Michael King  England 281 (−7)
Tournament Players Championship
1978 Foxhills G&CC Brian Waites  England 286 (−6)
1977 Foxhills G&CC Neil Coles  England 288 (−4)

PO won following playoff

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