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Thursday, June 8

Details
When	Friday-Sunday
Course	Kemper Lakes Golf Club, Long Grove, Ill.
Par/Yardage	Par 72; 6,947 yards
Purse	$1.4 million (Winner: $210,000)
1999 champion	Hale Irwin
Tournament record	21-under 195 (Hale Irwin, 1995)
Television	Saturday-Sunday: 4-6 p.m. ET (CBS)

The tournament

	Hole by hole
	Hole	Par	Yards
	1	4	406
	2	4	400
	3	3	173
	4	5	508
	5	4	423
	6	3	180
	7	5	532
	8	4	421
	9	4	435
	Out	36	3478
	10	4	425
	11	5	534
	12	4	393
	13	3	183
	14	4	395
	15	5	557
	16	4	426
	17	3	172
	18	4	384
	In	36	3469
	Total	72	6947

Hale Irwin can tie Lee Trevino's record for Senior Tour victories in the tournament where he won his first.

Irwin captured the first of his 27 Senior Tour titles at the SBC Senior Open in 1995 and will be back to defend his title when the $1.4 million event begins Friday at the Kemper Lakes Golf Club.

The most recent of Irwin's titles came last week at the BellSouth Senior Classic in Nashville, Tenn. It was his second title of the year, having also won the Nationwide Championship on May 14. He has a whopping 47 career titles, including 20 on the PGA Tour.

With the first-prize check of $225,000 last week, Irwin jumped into third place on the Senior money list at $1,021,268.

Irwin has won this event three times, including each of the last two years. With a win this week, Irwin would join Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win a Senior event four times. Nicklaus did the trick at the Countrywide Tradition.

Irwin also can tie a Senior Tour record by winning the same event three consecutive years. He already accomplished the feat at the PGA Seniors Championship from 1996 to 1998. Others to do it are Chi Chi Rodriguez (1986-88 Digital Seniors Classic), Bob Charles (1987-89 Sunwest Bank/Charley Pride Classic) and George Archer (1990-92 Northville Long Island Classic). The field this week includes Trevino, who has not won since the 1998 Southwestern Bell Dominion, and Gil Morgan, who finished one stroke in back of Irwin last week.

Gary Player again tries to become the first player to win a tournament in six different decades. The 64-year-old entered the final round last week in a tie for the lead, but shot a final-round 72 and finished tied for 16th.

Irwin won this event in 1995 at the Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora, Ill. It switched to its present site in 1996.