The European Senior Tour, currently branded as the Legends Tour, is a
professional golf tour for male
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ers aged 50 and over, run by the
PGA European Tour. The tour was titled as the Staysure Tour for the 2018 and 2019 seasons after UK-based insurance company Staysure became the first title sponsors of the senior tour in December 2017. The tour was relaunched as the Legends Tour in 2020, after Ryan Howsam, founder and owner of Staysure, took majority ownership in a joint venture with the
European Tour.
History
The Tour was founded in 1992 after calls from 60 leading professionals five years after the first Senior Open Championship in 1987. The highest profile event in Europe is the
Senior British Open Championship, which is co-sanctioned by PGA Tour Champions and was played on the
Old Course at St Andrews
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for the first time in 2018. The European Tour co-sanctions the
Senior PGA Championship and the
U.S. Senior Open. Prize money in the latter does not count towards the Order of Merit, but since 2007 the former has been an official money event.
Order of Merit winners
Source:
Awards
Leading career money winners
The table below shows the top ten career money leaders on the European Senior Tour as of the end of the 2018 season.
There is a full list that is updated after each tournament on the European Tour's websit
here
See also
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List of golfers with most European Senior Tour wins
Notes
References
External links
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{{Men's Professional Golf Tours
Professional golf tours
Sports organizations established in 1992