ESPN Golf Online
Sunday, July 16

Details
When	Thursday-Sunday
Course	TPC of Michigan, Dearborn, Mich.
Par/Yardage	Par 72; 6,876 yards
Purse	$2.3 million (Winner: $345,000)
1999 champion	Hale Irwin
Tournament record	27-under 261 (Jack Nicklaus, 1990)
Television	Thursday-Friday: 2-4 p.m. ET (ESPN) Saturday-Sunday: 4-6 p.m. ET (ABC)

The tournament

	Hole by hole
	Hole	Par	Yards
	1	4	408
	2	4	411
	3	5	547
	4	3	210
	5	4	394
	6	4	340
	7	5	542
	8	3	182
	9	4	432
	Out	36	3466
	10	4	393
	11	4	410
	12	3	166
	13	5	506
	14	4	429
	15	3	192
	16	4	376
	17	5	521
	18	4	417
	In	36	3410
	Total	72	6876

Just two weeks after a record-setting performance at the U.S. Senior Open, Hale Irwin goes for his second straight major when he defends his title at the Ford Senior Players Championship.

Irwin defeated Bruce Fleisher by three strokes two weeks ago to claim his sixth Senior Tour major championship. With a 17-under-par 267, Irwin recorded the lowest score in relation to par at any USGA event and set five other scoring records.

Irwin joined Jack Nicklaus as the only multiple winners of both the U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open.

Last year, Irwin overcame a left rotator cuff injury to win his first Senior Players Championship by a whopping seven strokes over Graham Marsh, a record margin of victory at this event. He also finished runner-up here in 1996 and 1998.

In addition to his two U.S. Senior Open titles, Irwin won three straight PGA Seniors' Championships from 1996-98 to account for his six majors. A 20-time winner on the PGA Tour, Irwin this week could tie Lee Trevino's all-time record of 29 Senior Tour wins.

Fleisher has followed up his seven-win rookie season with three victories in 2000. He has 11 top-10 finishes overall in 18 starts and trails Irwin by just under $11,000 in season earnings. Fleisher tied for seventh here last year.

Tom Kite, who won The Tradition in April, and Doug Tewell, the winner of the PGA Seniors' Championship, also will vie for their second major of the season. Tom Watson will look to join Kite as winners of majors in their rookie season.

Former champions entered include Nicklaus (1990). Gil Morgan (1998), two-time winner Dave Stockton (1992, 1994), Jim Colbert (1993), J.C. Snead (1995) and Ray Floyd (1996).

Leonard Thompson, who won last week's State Farm Senior Classic in a playoff, also is entered.

Although this is the final major of the season, the Senior Tour is far from finished. Sixteen more weeks of play are on the schedule, starting next week in New Jersey with the BellAtlantic Classic.