Bank Of America Championship Announces Commitments
Early player commitments to the Champions Tour Bank of America Championship have filled nearly two-thirds of the tournament's 78-player field. More than 50 of golf's top players, including Jay Haas, the tournament's 2007 champion, have committed to competing at the 28th annual Bank of America Championship, which takes place June 16-22 at Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, Mass.
The Bank of America Championship was one of four tournaments Haas won in 2007, a tour best last year. He received the Arnold Palmer Award as the Tour's leading money winner for the second consecutive year. He also received Player of the Year honors for the second consecutive year. In 27 starts, Haas led all tour players with 18 top-10 finishes and finished second in the Charles Schwab Cup race to Loren Roberts, who ended up second to Haas on the 2007 money list. He has a total of nine PGA Tour victories and 10 Champions Tour wins, including a Senior PGA Championship, and he is third on the money list to-date this year.
Roberts also has committed to this year's Bank of America Championship, his first. He's eighth on the money list so far this year. Last year Roberts won two tournaments and the Charles Schwab Cup, scoring 14 top-10 finishes, six of them in the first six tournaments of the year. He has eight PGA Tour victories and seven Champions Tour wins, including three majors, the Jeld-Wen Tradition and Senior British Open Championship and Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship.
"We're very excited about our field this far in advance of the tournament, and we've just gotten started" said tournament director Tracy West.
The 2008 Bank of America Championship field includes all-time money list leaders Dana Quigley (3), Bruce Fleisher (4), Allen Doyle (6), who has won four Champions Tour majors and the 2003 Bank of America Championship, Jim Thorpe (7), Jim Colbert (8) and Tom Jenkins (10). This year's money list leaders who have committed to the tournament, in addition to Haas (3) and Roberts (8), include Mark Wiebe (6), John Cook (7), who will compete in his first Bank of America Championship, Denis Watson (10), Lonnie Nielsen (12), Tom Jenkins (14) and Nick Price (15), who has won three PGA Tour championships and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
