Miguel Angel has just won his eighth title on the PGA Tour Champions, the U.S. senior circuit for the over 50’s, after scoring an extraordinary round of 63 strokes (9 under par), which equaled the course record, in the third and final round of the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, postponed from Sunday to Monday due to bad weather.
The 55-year-old from Malaga won the tournament, played at the James River Course of the Country Club of Virginia and first of the three that make up the Schwab Cup playoffs, with 198 strokes (18 under par) and three rounds of 67, 68 and 63. In the latter he recorded nine birdies and no bogey. He won by two strokes over second-placed Tommy Tolles.
This is the sixth consecutive year in which Jiménez has achieved at least one victory in the PGA Tour Champions, a record only surpassed by Germany’s Bernhard Langer.
Jimenez has won two majors on the senior circuit (Tradition 2018 and British Open 2018) and his last victory was at the Chubb Classic last February.
The Andalusian aspires, on the other hand, to be the player who has played the most tournaments on the European Tour, of which he is an active member, and to surpass Sam Torrance, who has played more than 700 tournaments. Both share the same number of victories on this Tour: 21.
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