Yearly Top 10 Leaders on Champions Tour

Posting Top 10 finishes throughout the year on any golf tour is a sign of a golfer who is playing consistently well. And it's a great way to fill up a bank account. Below is the list of senior (50-and-over) golfers who have led the Champions Tour in Top 10 finishes each year since that tour's founding in 1980.

A few tidbits about the Top 10 leaders list below:

• The golfer who has led this senior tour stat category most often is Bernhard Langer. Langer has topped the list 10 times, including seven consecutive years from 2012 through 2018.
• The highest number of Top 10s in a single season on the Champions Tour is 26, the number recorded by Lee Trevino in 1990. Trevino, in his first year on the senior circuit, finished outside the Top 10 only twice all year. He had seven wins and eight second-place finishes.
• The lowest number of Top 10 finishes to lead the tour (not counting 1980, 1981 and 1982, the tour's first three years, when there were only four, seven and 11 tournaments, respectively) is 13. That's how many Top 10s Langer had to lead the list in 2015.

Most Top 10 Finishes on Champions Tour by Year

2024 — Steven Alker, 16
2023 — (tie) Ernie Els, Steve Stricker, 15
2022 — Steven Alker, 18
2020-21 — Bernhard Langer, 24 (two years combined due to COVID-19 pandemic shortening of 2020 season)
2019 — (tie) Jerry Kelly, Scott McCarron, 14
2018 — Bernhard Langer, 14
2017 — Bernhard Langer, 16
2016 — Bernhard Langer, 18
2015 — Bernhard Langer, 13
2014 — Bernhard Langer, 18
2013 — Bernhard Langer, 18
2012 — Bernhard Langer, 17
2011 — Mark Calcavecchia, 15
2010 — Bernhard Langer, 15
2009 — Bernhard Langer, 15
2008 — John Cook, 15
2007 — Jay Haas, 18
2006 — Loren Roberts, 18
2005 — (tie) Mark McNulty, Dana Quigley, 15
2004 — D.A. Weibring, 15
2003 — Tom Jenkins, 15
2002 — Hale Irwin, 22
2001 — Allen Doyle, 25
2009 — Larry Nelson, 23
1999 — Bruce Fleisher, 19
1998 — Hale Irwin, 20
1997 — (tie) Gil Morgan, Jay Sigel, 19
1996 — Hale Irwin, 21
1995 — Dave Stockton, 24
1994 — Tom Wargo, 25
1993 — (tie) George Archer, Dave Stockton, 22
1992 — Mike Hill, 22
1991 — (tie) George Archer, Mike Hill, 21
1990 — Lee Trevino, 26
1989 — Bob Charles, 22
1988 — Bob Charles, 22
1987 — Bob Charles, 21
1986 — (tie) Bruce Crampton, Chi Chi Rodriguez, 23
1985 — Lee Elder, 21
1984 — Miller Barber, 20
1983 — Miller Barber, 15
1982 — Bob Goalby, 10
1981 — (tie) Miller Barber, Don January, 6
1980 — (tie) Julius Boros, Charlie Sifford, 4

Note that on the PGA Tour's website, you can view each year's full list of golfers, their number of Top 10s and where they rank. That URL is included in the sources below.

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• Most career wins on Champions Tour
• Yearly Top 10 leaders on the PGA Tour
• Yearly Top 10 leaders on the LPGA Tour

Sources:
PGATour.com. PGA Tour Champions, Stats, Top 10 Finishes, https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions/stats/detail/138.
PGA Tour. 1993 Senior PGA Tour Official Media Guide, 1993, The PGA Tour Inc.