Senior Players Championship
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Akron, Ohio |
| Established | 1983 |
| Course(s) | Firestone Country Club (South Course) |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,248 yards (6,628 m) |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour Champions |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | US$3,500,000 |
| Month played | July |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 261 Jack Nicklaus (1990) 261 Kenny Perry (2013) |
| Score | −27 Jack Nicklaus (1990) |
| Current champion | |
| Ernie Els | |
| Location map | |
Location in the United States Location in Ohio | |
The Kauling Companies Championship, formerly known as the Senior Players Championship, stylised by the PGA Tour as The SENIOR PLAYERS, is one of the five major championships on golf's PGA Tour Champions. The inaugural event was played 42 years ago in 1983 and the age minimum is 50, the standard for men's senior professional golf tournaments.
The winner gains entry into the following season's Players Championship on the PGA Tour (although Retief Goosen, the 2019 winner, was not allowed to play in the official subsequent Players Championship). In 2022, businessman Matt Kaulig, whose enterprises include LeafFilter and a NASCAR team, took over title sponsorship of the event, renaming it the Kaulig Companies Championship.
Unlike the U.S. Senior Open, the Senior PGA Championship, and the Senior Open Championship, it is not recognized as a major by the European Senior Tour, and is not part of that tour's schedule.
Since 2019, the Senior Players championship has been held at the South course of the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio; it replaced the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational that had been held there before moving to Memphis, Tennessee.