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16 at Bay Colony Golf Club. Pros were: Fort Myers' George McNeill, Bonita Springs' Peter Jacobsen, Naples resident Mark Lye, part-time Naples resident Wayne Levi, Andy Bean, Eric Booker, Michael Bradley, Billy Ray Brown, Brad Bryant, Russ Cochran, John Cook, Bruce Fleisher, Donnie Hammond, Mike Hulbert, Bill Kratzert, Blaine McCallister, Lonnie ...

It was a good thing for Joey Sindelar that he didn't use a cart at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

John Cook won the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championships by five strokes Sunday for his second Champions Tour title in three weeks, while Loren Roberts held on to win the season points title.

Russ Cochran birdied three straight holes before a bogey on the 18th dropped him into a tie for the lead with Andy Bean at 8-under 134 after the second round at the AT&T Championship on Saturday in San Antonio.

CHAMPIONS TOUR: Charles Schwab Cup Championship, today-Sunday, Sonoma Golf Club.

Jay Haas, who comes into today's final round a stroke behind leaders Andy Bean and Russ Cochran, admitted that he considered hanging up his spikes last month because of consistent pain in his left elbow.

Blackmar holds on for AT&T win Phil Blackmar lifts the winner's trophy after winning the PGA Champions Tour AT&T Championship at the Oak Hills Country Club on October 25, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas.

Russ Cochran birdied three straight holes before a bogey on the 18th dropped him into a tie for the lead with Andy Bean at 8-under 134 after the second round at the AT&T Championship on Saturday.

The Houston Astros fired manager Cecil Cooper on Monday with 13 games left in another disappointing season.

Jay Haas and Nick Price shared the lead at the Greater Hickory Classic on Saturday, but 31 players were within six strokes of the leaders going into the final round at the Champions Tour event.

R.W. Eaks admits he's had a terrible year on the Champions Tour. The good news is he's the two-time defending champion heading into the Greater Hickory Classic, which begins on Friday on the Rock Barn Golf and Spa course.

To borrow a famous quote from "Caddyshack" -- one of golf's greatest movies -- "it's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat." Just ask Daytona State College golfer Ericka Schneider.

The Charles Schwab Cup Championship returns to the Sonoma Golf Club the week of Oct.

Published: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 11:46 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 11:46 p.m. LAKELAND When Lavanty Simonis walked through the doors of The First Tee of Lakeland in 2005, little did he know he was stepping onto a path to Pebble Beach, Calif.

The fans had been waiting for Andy Bean when he pulled up to TPC Snoqualmie Ridge's first hole in his cart during a fundraising round the day before the PGA Champions Tour's Boeing Classic.

Senior golfer Andy Bean won a pre-game closest-to-the-pin contest over Fred Funk, Jim Thorpe and Mariners' pitching coach Rick Adair.

To fans, the nondescript trailers just behind the driving range and practice putting green were part of the backdrop, something standing in the way of good views of the Champions Tour professional golfers at the Jeld-Wen Tradition on Friday.

Notice, it's no longer plural. Tim Jackson, the amateur surprise, is 1-under through five holes, putting him alone atop the leader board at 7-under. A stroke behind Jackson, there are five names: Andy Bean, Greg Norman, Joey Sindelar, Dan Forsman and yes, Funk.

Norman in four-way tie at top Greg Norman watches his shot to the ninth green during the first round of the U.S. Senior Open on Thursday.

Germantown Amateur Tim Jackson Carmel, Indiana Greg Norman birdied four straight holes on the front nine of the U.S. Senior Open, but a bogey on the final hole at Carmel, Ind., left him in a four-way tie with Joey Sindelar, Dan Forsman and amateur Tim Jackson at six-under 66.