Final-Round Notes

Sunday, June 22, 2025
Firestone Country Club (South Course) | Akron, Ohio

14th of 28 PGA TOUR Champions events in the 2025 Season

• Charles Schwab Cup leader Miguel Angel Jiménez defeated Steven Alker in a sudden-death playoff at the Kaulig Companies Championship to capture his fourth win of the 2025 season and third major title on PGA TOUR Champions.
• Jiménez birdied the final two holes in regulation (Nos. 17, 18) to tie Alker and force a playoff. On the first playoff hole (No. 18), they tied with pars. On the second playoff hole (No. 18), Jiménez made birdie to win.
• This was the seventh playoff in Kaulig Companies Championship history (first since 2018).
• This was the fourth playoff of the 2025 season on PGA TOUR Champions.

Miguel Angel Jiménez, 70-66-66-68 – 270 (-10)

• The 61-year-old earned his 17th win on PGA TOUR Champions (197 starts)
  • Remains 18th on the Champions Tour all-time wins list
• Earned his third major title on PGA TOUR Champions
  • 2018 Regions Tradition
  • 2018 ISPS HANDA Senior Open
  • 2025 Kaulig Companies Championship
• Earned his fourth win of the 2025 season (13 starts)
  • Trophy Hassan II (Feb. 6-8)
  • Hoag Classic (March 21-23)
  • Principal Charity Classic (May 30-June 1)
  • Kaulig Companies Championship (June 19-22)
• Becomes the first four-time winner of the 2025 season on PGA TOUR Champions
  • Passed Ángel Cabrera (3) for the most wins by any player this season
• This is his first four-win season on PGA TOUR Champions
  • Jiménez’s multi-win seasons (5): 2 wins (2018); 2 wins (2019); 2 wins (2020-21); 3 wins (2022); 4 wins (2025)
• Earned his first win at the Kaulig Companies Championship (10 starts)
  • Previous best finish: T2 (2016 at Philadelphia Cricket Club)
  • Previous best finish at Firestone Country Club: T3 (2020)
• At 61 years, 5 months, 17 days, becomes the 22nd-oldest winner in PGA TOUR Champions history
  • It is the 50th instance of a player in his 60s winning on PGA TOUR Champions
• This is the most wins in one season by a player in his 60s (4)
  • Previous most: 3 wins (Bernhard Langer in 2017)
    • Note: Langer won seven times in 2017 but three of them were after he turned 60 on August 27, 2017 (PURE Insurance Championship, Dominion Energy Charity Classic, PowerShares QQQ Championship)
• Remains atop the Charles Schwab Cup standings for the 11th week (of 14 possible weeks) this season
• Has a winning percentage of 8.63% (17-for-197) on PGA TOUR Champions, which ranks No. 6 all-time among players with 10 or more victories
• Improves to 11-for-22 when leading/co-leading entering the final round on PGA TOUR Champions (3-for-5 in senior majors)
  • Led at the 2016 ISPS HANDA Senior Open (finished T3)
  • Led at the 2016 U.S. Senior Open (finished T2)
  • Led at the 2018 Regions Tradition (Won)
  • Led at the 2018 ISPS HANDA Senior Open (Won)
  • Co-led at the 2025 Kaulig Companies Championship (Won)
• Improves to 4-for-4 when playing in the last group of the final round this season
  • Trophy Hassan II (Won)
  • Hoag Classic (Won)
  • Principal Charity Classic (Won)
  • Kaulig Companies Championship (Won)
• With this victory, he earns an exemption into the 2026 PLAYERS Championship

Other Notes

• 54-hole co-leader Steven Alker finished runner-up and moves up to No. 2 in the Charles Schwab Cup standings after starting the week No. 3.
  • This is Alker’s ninth top-6 finish of the 2025 season (11 starts).
  • This is Alker’s 26th top-2 finish (17th runner-up) on PGA TOUR Champions (86 starts).
• 2004 WGC-NEC Invitational champion (held at Firestone Country Club) Stewart Cink (3rd) closed with 66 to post 8-under.
  • This is Cink’s eighth top-10 finish of the 2025 season (11 starts) as he moves up one spot to No. 4 in the Charles Schwab Cup standings.
• Steve Flesch (4th) matched the low round of the day (65) to finish at 7-under. This is his second consecutive top-5 finish of the season.
  • Finished T2 at the American Family Insurance Championship (team event with partner Paul Goydos) in his last start.