Yearly Champions Tour Scoring Average Leaders

Which golfers have led the Champions Tour in scoring average each year? That's the question we answer here, and the full list of the tour's annual scoring leaders is below. First, let's point out a few facts about the senior tour's best scorers:

• Bernhard Langer has led the tour in scoring average more than anyone else, a total of seven different years. Those years were 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. (He also led in 2020, but because the 2020 season was shortened due to COVID-19, the Champions Tour combined its stats for 2020 and 2021, counting those years as one season. Langer, then, did not lead the 2020-21 "season.")
• The lowest scoring average yet posted in Champions Tour history is the 67.54 average by Steve Stricker in 2023.
• Langer (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) had a streak of five consecutive years leading the tour in scoring average. Don January (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985) had a streak of four consecutive years leading the tour in scoring.

Unlike with the PGA Tour's yearly scoring leaders, who are chosen using a weighted formula that takes into account both golf course degree of difficulty plus field strength, the Champions Tour uses actual scoring average. That means a golfer's total strokes played during the year divided by his rounds played.

The List: Champions Tour Scoring Leaders

2024 — Steven Alker, 68.52
2023 — Steve Stricker, 67.54
2022 — Steven Alker, 68.27
2020-21 — Jim Furyk, 68.84 (two years combined due to COVID-19-caused shortened 2020 season)
2019 — Retief Goosen, 69.14
2018 — Bernhard Langer, 69.01
2017 — Bernhard Langer, 68.03
2016 — Bernhard Langer, 68.31
2015 — Bernhard Langer, 68.69
2014 — Bernhard Langer, 68.03
2013 — Fred Couples, 68.64
2012 — Fred Couples, 68.52
2011 — Mark Calcavecchia, 69.04
2010 — Fred Couples, 67.96
2009 — Bernhard Langer, 68.92
2008 — Bernhard Langer, 69.65
2007 — Loren Roberts, 69.31
2006 — Loren Roberts, 69.01
2005 — Mark McNulty, 69.41
2004 — Craig Stadler, 69.30
2003 — Tom Watson, 68.81
2002 — Hale Irwin, 68.93
2001 — Gil Morgan, 69.20
2000 — Gil Morgan, 68.83
1999 — Bruce Fleisher, 69.19
1998 — Hale Irwin, 68.59
1997 — Hale Irwin, 68.92
1996 — Hale Irwin, 69.47
1995 — Raymond Floyd, 69.47
1994 — Raymond Floyd, 69.08
1993 — Bob Charles, 69.59
1992 — Lee Trevino, 69.46
1991 — Lee Trevino, 69.50
1990 — Lee Trevino, 68.89
1989 — Bob Charles, 69.78
1988 — Bob Charles, 70.05
1987 — Chi Chi Rodriguez, 70.07
1986 — Chi Chi Rodriguez, 69.65
1985 — Don January, 70.11
1984 — Don January, 70.68
1983 — Don January, 69.46
1982 — Don January, 70.03
1981 — Miller Barber, 69.57
1980 — Don January, 71.00

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• Yearly scoring leaders on the LPGA Tour
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• Yearly driving distance leaders on the Champions Tour

Photo credit: Bernhard Langer photographed by Keith Allison [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons