The field for the second Tucson Conquistadores Classic is loaded with familiar names and major champions. Here are 20 players to watch (in alphabetical order; career earnings are for PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions only):
BILLY ANDRADE
• Age: 52
• Birthplace: Bristol, R.I.
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Won three PGA Tour Champions events — Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf at Big Cedar Lodge, Boeing Classic, Charles Schwab Cup Championship — in 2015, his second year on tour; won four times in a 10-year span on the PGA Tour (1991 Kemper Open, 1991 Buick Classic, 1998 Bell Canadian Open, 2000 Invensys Classic at Las Vegas); helped lead Wake Forest to the 1986 NCAA championship.
• Career earnings: $14.9 million
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• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 4
• Current Champions money-list rank: 7
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 3
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-14
BART BRYANT
• Age: 53
• Birthplace: Gatesville, Texas
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Has three career PGA Tour victories (2004 Valero Texas Open, 2005 Memorial Tournament, 2005 Tour Championship); lone PGA Tour Champions victory came at 2013 Dick’s Sporting Goods Open; runner-up finish in last year’s Tucson Conquistadores Classic was his second straight second place; earned All-America honors at New Mexico State.
• Career earnings: $12.3 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 20
• Current Champions money-list rank: 47
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 1
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: 2
MARK CALCAVECCHIA
• Age: 55
• Birthplace: Laurel, Neb.
• Major championships: 1989 British Open
• Career highlights: Has 13 career PGA Tour victories, including three Phoenix Opens (1989, ’92, ’01); had 12 top-10 finishes in 1988, 10 in ’89; has three PGA Tour Champions victories (2011 Boeing Classic, 2012 Montreal Championship, 2015 Principal Charity Classic); played on four U.S. Ryder Cup teams; set a PGA Tour record with nine straight birdies at 2009 RBC Canadian Open.
• Career earnings: $30.1 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 36
• Current Champions money-list rank: 43
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 3
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-21
MARCO DAWSON
• Age: 52
• Birthplace: Freising, Germany
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Recorded first PGA Tour Champions victory — and first professional victory of any kind in more than 12 years — at last year’s Tucson Conquistadores Classic; four months later, won the Senior Open Championship, defeating Bernhard Langer by one stroke; best PGA Tour finish was second place at 1995 Greater Milwaukee Open
• Career earnings: $6.3 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 13
• Current Champions money-list rank: 38
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 2
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: 1
JOE DURANT
• Age: 51
• Birthplace: Pensacola, Fla.
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Has four career PGA Tour victories (1998 Motorola Western Open, 2001 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, 2001 Genuity Championship, 2006 Funai Classic at Walt Disney World Resort); recorded one victory (Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf at Big Cedar Lodge) and three second-place finishes in 2015, his first full season on the PGA Tour Champions; named PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year in 2001.
• Career earnings: $16.4 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 5
• Current Champions money-list rank: 13
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 1
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-21
FRED FUNK
• Age: 59
• Birthplace: Takoma Park, Md.
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Eight PGA Tour victories include 2005 Players Championship (which he won at age 48); nine PGA Tour Champions victories include ’09 U.S. Senior Open; finished in the top 10 in at least three PGA Tour Champions events from 2007-15; member of one Ryder Cup team and two Presidents Cup squads; served as golf coach at Maryland, his alma mater, from 1982-88.
• Career earnings: $32.1 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 33
• Current Champions money-list rank: 26
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 9
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: DNP
JAY HAAS
• Age: 62
• Birthplace: St. Louis
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Has nine career PGA Tour victories; had a dominant run on the PGA Tour Champions from 2005-09, winning 14 events, including three majors (2006 and ’08 Senior PGA Championships; 2009 Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship); named PGA Tour Champions Rookie of the Year in 2005; Champions tour leading money-winner in 2006 and ’07; winner of Charles Schwab Cup in 2006 and ’08; member of three Ryder Cup teams and two Presidents Cup squads; Presidents Cup captain in 2015.
• Career earnings: $30.9 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 67
• Current Champions money-list rank: 10
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 17
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-49
HALE IRWIN
• Age: 70
• Birthplace: Joplin, Mo.
• Major championships: 1974 U.S. Open; 1979 U.S. Open; 1990 U.S. Open
• Career highlights: Irwin’s 45 PGA Tour Champions victories, compiled from 1995-2007, are by far the most of all time; won nine times in 1997 and seven times in ’98, when he also finished second six times (in 22 starts); has 20 total PGA Tour victories, the first coming in 1971, the last in 1994; member of five U.S. Ryder Cup teams, compiling a 13-5-2 record; U.S. captain in first Presidents Cup in 1994 (U.S. defeated International Team 20-12); member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
• Career earnings: $32.9 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 99
• Current Champions money-list rank: 60
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 45
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: DNP
LEE JANZEN
• Age: 51
• Birthplace: Austin, Minn.
• Major championships: 1993 U.S. Open; 1998 U.S. Open
• Career highlights: Besides two U.S. Open championships, has won six other PGA Tour events, including 1993 Phoenix Open and 1995 Players Championship; recorded first and only PGA Tour Champions victory to date at 2015 ACE Group Classic; had at least one top-25 finish on the PGA Tour from 1990-2012; member of two U.S. Ryder Cup teams and one Presidents Cup squad.
• Career earnings: $17.1 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 16
• Current Champions money-list rank: 23
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 1
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-46
TOM KITE
• Age: 66
• Birthplace: McKinney, Texas
• Major championships: 1991 U.S. Open
• Career highlights: Won 19 times on the PGA Tour; notched at least one victory in every year but one from 1981-93 and at least two top-10 finishes every year from 1971-94; named PGA of America Player of the Year in 1989, when he was the PGA Tour’s leading money-winner for the second time; won 10 PGA Tour Champions tournaments between 2000 and ’08; played on seven U.S. Ryder Cup teams, compiling a 15-9-4 record (5-0-2 in singles), and served as captain in 1997; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
• Career earnings: $27.1 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 89
• Current Champions money-list rank: 56
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 10
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-78
BERNHARD LANGER
• Age: 58
• Birthplace: Anhausen, Germany
• Major championships: 1985 Masters; 1993 Masters
• Career highlights: 26 PGA Tour Champions victories include three majors; credited with 59 worldwide victories in addition to PGA and Champions titles; has 19 runner-up finishes on PGA Tour Champions since 2012; three-time winner of Charles Schwab Cup; 10-time member of European Ryder Cup team and captain in 2004; European Tour money leader in 1981 and ’84; European Tour Player of the Year in 1985 and ’93; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
• Career earnings: $28.6 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 1
• Current Champions money-list rank: 1
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 26
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-9
TOM LEHMAN
• Age: 57
• Birthplace: Austin, Minn.
• Major championships: 1996 British Open
• Career highlights: In addition to ’96 Open Championship, has four career PGA Tour victories (including 2000 Phoenix Open); nine PGA Tour Champions victories include 2010 Senior PGA Championship; finished atop money list and won Charles Schwab Cup in 2011, when he had three first-place finishes, two seconds and two thirds; 11 top-10 finishes in PGA Tour majors, including second place at 1994 Masters and ’96 U.S. Open; member of three U.S. Ryder Cup teams and captain in 2006.
• Career earnings: $30.7 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 7
• Current Champions money-list rank: 4
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 9
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-18
JEFF MAGGERT
• Age: 52
• Birthplace: Columbia, Mo.
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Has three career PGA Tour victories (1993 Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic, 1999 World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, 2006 FedEx St. Jude Classic); has five PGA Tour Champions victories since joining in 2014, including ’15 U.S. Senior Open; became 17th player in Champions Tour history to win in his debut (2014 Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic); member of three U.S. Ryder Cup teams and one Presidents Cup squad.
• Career earnings: $22.4 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 2
• Current Champions money-list rank: 14
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 5
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-9
ROCCO MEDIATE
• Age: 53
• Birthplace: Greensburg, Pa.
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Has six career PGA Tour victories, including 1999 Phoenix Open; his two PGA Tour Champions victories — Allianz Championship and Shaw Charity Classic — came in 2013, when he was named the senior circuit’s Rookie of the Year; famously finished as the runner-up in the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, losing to a hobbled Tiger Woods after an 18-hole playoff and an additional sudden-death hole.
• Career earnings: $19.2 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 34
• Current Champions money-list rank: 81
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 2
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-18
COLIN MONTGOMERIE
• Age: 52
• Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: All three of his PGA Tour Champions victories are majors (2014 U.S. Senior Open Championship; 2014 and ’15 Senior PGA Championships); has 47 worldwide victories; runner-up in five PGA Tour majors, including three U.S. Opens; member of eight European Ryder Cup teams and served as captain in 2010; part of six victorious Ryder Cup squads (20-9-7 individual record, including 6-0-2 in singles); member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
• Career earnings: $9.3 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 3
• Current Champions money-list rank: 16
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 3
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-9
MARK O’MEARA
• Age: 59
• Birthplace: Goldsboro, N.C.
• Major championships: 1998 Masters; 1998 British Open
• Career highlights: Two major victories were last of his 16 wins on PGA Tour; named PGA Tour Player of the Year in ’98; won two PGA Tour events four years in a row (1995-98); recorded only two career PGA Tour Champions victories in 2010 (Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship); credited with 18 other victories, including 1979 U.S. Amateur; member of five U.S. Ryder Cup teams and two Presidents Cup squads; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
• Career earnings: $22.6 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 15
• Current Champions money-list rank: 17
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 2
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: 3
COREY PAVIN
• Age: 56
• Birthplace: Oxnard, Calif.
• Major championships: 1995 U.S. Open
• Career highlights: Has 15 total PGA Tour victories, all but one earned between 1984 and ’96; ranked first on PGA Tour money list in 1991; lone victory on PGA Tour Champions came at 2012 Allianz Championship; member of three U.S. Ryder Cup teams (8-5 record) and two Presidents Cup squads; Ryder Cup captain in 2010; two-time All-American at UCLA and NCAA Player of the Year in 1982.
• Career earnings: $20.8 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 37
• Current Champions money-list rank: 22
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 1
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-18
KENNY PERRY
• Age: 55
• Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Ky.
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Has won 14 career PGA Tour events, including three victories at the Memorial Tournament; first PGA win was at 1991 Memorial; won five PGA Tour events in 2008 and ’09, when he was in his late 40s; PGA Tour Champions Player of the Year in 2013, when he won three tournaments, including the Constellation Senior Players Championship and U.S. Senior Open, and the Charles Schwab Cup; member of two Ryder Cup teams and four Presidents Cup squads.
• Career earnings: $39.2 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 12
• Current Champions money-list rank: 6
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 8
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-21
ESTEBAN TOLEDO
• Age: 53
• Birthplace: Mexicali, Mexico
• Major championships: None
• Career highlights: Twice finished as runner-up on PGA Tour (2000 B.C. Open, 2002 Buick Open); has won four times on the PGA Tour Champions, including this year’s Allianz Championship; has finished in the top 25 in more than half the Champions tour events he has entered (45 of 78); won the 2000 Mexican Open and has represented his home country six times in the World Cup of Golf.
• Career earnings: $7.1 million
• 2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 9
• Current Champions money-list rank: 3
• PGA Tour Champions wins: 4
• Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-37
DUFFY WALDORF
Age: 53
Birthplace: Los Angeles
Major championships: None
Career highlights: Won four times on the PGA Tour from 1995-2000; his two career PGA Tour Champions wins include this year’s Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai; has finished in the top 25 in 48 of the 77 Champions events he has entered and had 12 top-10s in 2013; two-time All-American at UCLA and 1985 College Player of the Year.
Career earnings: $15.5 million
2015 PGA Tour Champions money-list rank: 18
Current Champions money-list rank: 2
PGA Tour Champions wins: 2
Last year at Tucson Conquistadores Classic: T-21
