Champions Tour Regions Tradition leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/champions/tournaments/regions-tradition/leaderboard.htm
The senior circuit is down in muggy Birmingham Alabama at the venerable Shoal Creek course for the first of their 5 majors now called the Regions Tradition, and it is Texan Jeff Maggert, still plugging along after all these years, remember he was in contention with Mike Weir back in 2003 at the Masters when a ball came back and hit him in the fairway bunker at the 4th dropping him out of contention, who leads after an opening -5 67 for a 1 shot lead over Kevin Sutherland who fired the Champions Tour’s first 59 last August in Endicott, New York.
Tom Watson, Colin Montgomerie and Wes Short Jr. are two strokes back at 69 and as for the Canadians Rod Spittle opened with a 74 T43rd.
I remember Shoal Creek for two reasons, First is that's where John Daly filling in for an injured Nick Price, borrowed his caddie the late Squeaky Medlin and went on to win the PGA Championship at the tender age of 21, and second it's where Lee Trevino refused to use the clubhouse, choosing to change in the car park because the club had no black members at the time.
Bryan
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