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Defending champ Fred Couples will make a record-setting 11th appearance in the 22nd Skins Game this year. Sponsored by Merrill Lynch, Freddie will compete against Tiger Woods (5th), Adam Scott (1st), and Annika Sorenstam (2nd).<\/p>\nDefending champ Fred Couples will make a record-setting 11th appearance in the 22nd Skins Game this year. Sponsored by Merrill Lynch, Freddie will compete against Tiger Woods (5th), Adam Scott (1st), and Annika Sorenstam (2nd).<\/p>\n
The first nine holes will be played this Saturday at 1pm ET and the holes will be played Sunday at 11:30am ET. ABC will broadcast the event from 4:30-7pm ET on Saturday and 3:30-6pm on Sunday. The $1 million purse is split into $25,000 for holes 1-6, $50,000 for holes 7-12, and $70,000 for holes 13-17. The 18th hole is worth $200,000 itself. Players will donate 20% of their earnings to charity.
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\nThe first two Skins Games were held at Desert Highlands in AZ before spending one year at Bear Creek Golf Club in CA. PGA West hosted the tournament from 1986-91 and Bighorn Golf Club set the scene from 1992-95. Rancho La Quinta Country Club played host from 1996-98 before moving to Landmark Golf Club from 1999-2002. 2004 marks the second year the event will be staged at the Trilogy Golf Club at La Quinta. The Trilogy is a 7,113-yard par-72 course that opened in 2003.<\/p>\n
Fred Couples outlasted Annika Sorenstam, Phil Mickelson, and Mark O’Meara to win his record fourth title last year. Here’s to hoping that next year’s tournament morphs into a shirts vs. skins game with Natalie Gulbis and Laura Diaz on the skins team. Fred Couples, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, and Annika Sorenstam tee it up this year in Palm Beach for this year’s Skins Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"yoast_head":"\nYear Winner Winnings Par\/Yards\n1983 Gary Player $170,000 72\/7100\n1984 Jack Nicklaus $240,000 72\/7100\n1985 Fuzzy Zoeller $255,000 72\/7024\n1986 Fuzzy Zoeller $370,000 72\/7271\n1987 Lee Trevino $310,000 72\/7271\n1988 Ray FLoyd $290,000 72\/7271\n1989 Curtis Strange $265,000 72\/7271\n1990 Curtis Strange $225,000 72\/7271\n1991 Payne Stewart $260,000 72\/7271\n1992 Payne Stewart $220,000 72\/6848\n1993 Payne Stewart $280,000 72\/6848\n1994 Tom Watson $210,000 72\/6848\n1995 Fred Couples $270,000 72\/6848\n1996 Fred Couples $280,000 72\/7087\n1997 Tom Lehman $300,000 72\/6983\n1998 Mark O'Meara $430,000 72\/6983\n1999 Fred Couples $635,000 72\/6983\n2000 Colin Montgomerie $415,000 72\/6983\n2001 Greg Norman $1 million 72\/7068\n2002 Mark O'Meara $405,000 72\/7068\n2003 Fred Couples $605,000 72\/7068<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"