Eight golfers who have each played in at least 200 events between the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions will be in the field when the $50,000 CoBank Colorado Senior Open is held Wednesday through Friday (May 30-June 1) at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in northeast Denver.
Also scheduled to compete are Broncos Pro Football Hall of Famer John Elway, who will be making his fourth Senior Open appearance, and 10 former CSO champions.
Here’s the rundown of longtime tour players who have committed to the 19th Colorado Senior Open:
— Guy Boros (253 PGA Tour starts, with one win; 32 PGA Tour Champions starts)
— Jim Carter (461 PGA Tour starts, with one win; 70 PGA Tour Champions starts)
— Keith Clearwater (411 PGA Tour starts, with two wins; 36 PGA Tour Champions starts)
— Former University of Northern Colorado athlete R.W. Eaks (77 PGA Tour starts; 176 PGA Tour Champions starts, with four wins)
— Donnie Hammond (497 PGA Tour stars, with two wins; 36 PGA Tour Champions starts)
— Skip Kendall (423 PGA Tour starts; 36 PGA Tour Champions starts)
— John Riegger (224 PGA Tour starts; 67 PGA Tour Champions starts, with one win)
— Larry Rinker (525 PGA Tour starts; 2 PGA Tour Champions starts)
Add it up and for those eight players, that’s 2,871 PGA Tour starts with six victories, and 419 PGA Tour Champions starts with five wins.
In addition, 2017 CSO winner Jeff Gallagher played in 134 PGA Tour events in his career, and many others in the field have competed in some major tour tournaments in their careers.
As for Elway, in addition to his Senior Open appearances, he’s competed in four CoBank Colorado Opens, making one cut.
His Senior Open finishes have been 52nd in 2010, 19th in 2014 and 29th in 2016. In those last two events, he placed second among amateurs.
A lifelong golf amateur, Elway has placed in the top 10 14 times in the nationally televised American Century Championships celebrity tournament in the Lake Tahoe area. He and Tom Hart won the 2009 Trans-Miss Four-Ball at Cherry Hills Country Club and tied for second in the 2010 CGA Four-Ball.
Elway is scheduled to tee off at 1 p.m. on Wednesday off No. 10 and at 8:05 a.m. on Thursday off No. 1. Fans are welcome and admission is free.
As for former CSO champions entered, besides Eaks and Gallagher, there’s Bill Loeffler, Doug Rohrbaugh, Mike Zaremba, Dave Arbuckle, Perry Arthur, Greg Bruckner (a two-time champ), John Ross and Ron Schroeder. Rohrbaugh played in last week’s KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship and on Monday he earned medalist honors in U.S. Senior Open qualifying at The Broadmoor.
The low pro in this week’s tournament will earn $8,500.
For Wednesday and Thursday’s pairings, CLICK HERE.
For more information on the Colorado Senior Open, CLICK HERE.
