Australia's Peter Senior, that is, who won the Australian PGA championship (his third) yesterday, beating out recent US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy.
At 51, Senior is indeed now a "senior", and while not the first, or oldest, over-50 to win on the main men's tour by any means, it is still a relatively rare feat. However, what I think may be unique is that Senior has won on the main tour in 5 separate decades - his first win came in 1979, and he won in the 80s, 90s and "noughties" as well. As far as I can tell no-one has done that - Sam Snead and some others won professional events in as many as six different decades, but their latter ones were all in senior tour events, not main tour ones.
At 51, Senior is indeed now a "senior", and while not the first, or oldest, over-50 to win on the main men's tour by any means, it is still a relatively rare feat. However, what I think may be unique is that Senior has won on the main tour in 5 separate decades - his first win came in 1979, and he won in the 80s, 90s and "noughties" as well. As far as I can tell no-one has done that - Sam Snead and some others won professional events in as many as six different decades, but their latter ones were all in senior tour events, not main tour ones.
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