December 21, 2010 – After a four-year hiatus, Westchester Country Club will again host a professional golf tournament after the Champions Tour announced that the 2011 Constellation Energy Senior Players Championshipwill be held at the historic Harrison, N.Y., club, a venue that is quite familiar to many of the senior circuit’s players. The 2011 event will be played August 18-21 over the same West Course at Westchester that hosted a PGA Tour event for 41 years.

Westchester Country Club was one of the PGA Tour’s most popular stops for more than four decades, beginning with the inaugural Westchester Classic in 1967, won by Jack Nicklaus, and ending with Steve Stricker’s win in The Barclays in 2007. The Senior Players Championship, one of the longest-running events in the history of the Champions Tour as well as one of the Tour’s five major championships, will be the first senior event held on the Walter Travis design. The championship will feature a strong field of 78 players age 50 and older, including defending champion Mark O’Meara, 2010 Champions Tour Player of the Year Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples, Tom Watson and Corey Pavin.

“Westchester is a fantastic course in an area that loves golf as much as any region in the country,” said PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem. “The Champions Tour players will be thrilled to have a course with as much history as Westchester Country Club host one of their major championships. The PGA Tour enjoyed great success at Westchester Country Club and we know the Champions Tour will as well.”

The 2011 Senior Players Championship will be the fifth Champions Tour major hosted by a Met Area club since the tour was founded in 1980. The 2001 Senior PGA Championship and 1990 U.S. Senior Open were both held at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey, and the 1987 and 1980 U.S. Senior Opens were held at Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield, Conn., and Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., respectively. While this is the first time a Met Area club has hosted the Senior Players Championship, the event has a tie to the Met Area through two-time Met Open champion Jim Albus of Staten Island, who claimed the title in 1991 at the TPC of Michigan.

Westchester Country Club was scheduled to host The Barclays PGA Tour Playoffs event in August 2012. However, by hosting the Senior Players Championship in 2011, and potentially acting as a future host on a rotational basis, Westchester Country Club and the PGA Tour mutually agreed that The 2012 Barclays will be staged at a different venue. For more information on the 2011 Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship, click here.