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**truebluefan** · 02-14-2008, 11:23 PM

Talk about the event in here.

**truebluefan** · 02-18-2008, 08:07 PM

The 2008 Wendy's Champions Skins Game will take place at Royal Kaanapali Golf Course in Lahaina, Hawaii. Eight of the best and most entertaining golfers in history will compete in the two-day event. To catch the action from Down Under, tune in to ESPN from 4-6 p.m. on Feb. 23 and Feb. 24, 2008.

The following players make up the teams this year:

Jack Nicklaus & Tom Watson
Arnold Palmer & Jay Haas
Gary Player & Loren Roberts
Fuzzy Zoeller & Peter Jacobsen

Nicklaus, winner of 18 major championships on the PGA TOUR and considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time, teamed with Tom Watson last year and they won the tournament for the pair's third title. Watson, a 39-time PGA TOUR winner, and Nicklaus won seven skins on the back nine to beat Arnold Palmer and Jay Haas.

Palmer and Haas, both products of Wake Forest University, captured three skins and $140,000 in 2007. Palmer was victorious 62 times on the PGA TOUR, including eight major championships. With 10 victories in three years, Haas is currently one of the Champions Tour's top players and is the reigning Player of the Year.

Gary Player captured 24 titles in his PGA TOUR career and over 163 worldwide. In 2007, the man known as the Black Knight was the Captain of the International squad at the Presidents Cup. He will be joined by Loren Roberts, one of the best putters and players on the Champions Tour.

Zoeller and Jacobsen are two of the most entertaining players in the game and bring laughter as well as talent to the Wendy's Champions Skins Game. Zoeller is a former Masters champion and U.S. Open winner who captured eight other titles on the PGA TOUR. Jacobsen has amassed nine titles total on the PGA TOUR and Champions Tour.

In the Skins Game format, each hole is given a dollar value and the group must win the hole in order to capture that money. If no one wins the hole, the skins value is added to the next hole and continues to accumulate until someone wins.

**truebluefan** · 02-18-2008, 08:09 PM

Executives with ESPN Regional Television, Trans World International and the Kaanapali Beach Resort Assn. announced that Royal Kaanapali Golf Course will become the new host course for the Wendy's Champions SKINS GAME.

The Wendy's Champions SKINS GAME, which enjoyed its 20th anniversary in January, also gets a new, later date. It will take place Feb. 23-24, 2008 and be televised on ESPN.

The three-year agreement keeps the event on Maui and means the Champions Tour will continue to have a presence on Maui to complement events on the Big Island and Oahu. Royal Kaanapali takes over from Wailea Golf Club's Gold Course, which hosted the Wendy's Champions SKINS GAME the last seven years.

Before that, the event spent 11 years at Mauna Lani on the Big Island of Hawaii. The inaugural match was played in 1988 at Turtle Bay Golf Club on Oahu, and the second in 1989 at the Mountain Course at the La Quinta Hotel Golf Club in La Quinta, Calif.

"We could not be more pleased to bring this event to a showcase like the Kaanapali Golf Resort," said Tony Renaud, vice president of new business for ESPN and the executive overseeing the Wendy's Champions SKINS GAME. "With Champions Tour and LPGA events played here at one time, this facility has a history of providing a backdrop to championship-quality golf and this event will do nothing but enhance and build upon that tradition."

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**truebluefan** · 02-23-2008, 11:41 AM

WENDY'S CHAMPIONS SKINS GAME

When: Saturday-Sunday.

Where: Kaanapali, Hawaii.

Course: Royal Kaanapali Golf Course (6,700 yards, par 71).

Purse: $770,000 (Nos. 1-6, $30,000 each; Nos. 7-12, $40,000 each; Nos. 13-17, $50,000 each; No. 18, $100,000).

TV: ESPN (Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m.).

Teams: Jack Nicklaus-Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer-Jay Haas, Gary Player-Loren Roberts, and Fuzzy Zoeller-Peter Jacobsen.

Last year: Nicklaus and Watson won at Wailea, finishing with nine skins and $320,000 to edge Player and Haas by $30,000.

Note: The made-for-TV competition is in its third year as a team event after 18 years as a four-man individual tournament.

**memorex88** · 02-23-2008, 11:50 AM

Dang I don't get to see this since there's no ESPN in Canada

**truebluefan** · 02-24-2008, 06:35 PM

KAANAPALI, Hawaii -- The team of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson is back this weekend to defend its title in the 2008 edition of the Wendy's Champions Skins Game. The two-day event, which tees off Saturday, again features four two-man teams competing in the skins format.

The other teams are Arnold Palmer/Jay Haas, Fuzzy Zoeller/Peter Jacobsen and Gary Player/Loren Roberts.

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**truebluefan** · 02-25-2008, 09:53 AM

KAANAPALI, Hawaii (AP) -- Fuzzy Zoeller and Peter Jacobsen rallied to win the Wendy's Champions Skins Game on Sunday, winning six skins and $320,000 in alternate-shot play to beat defending champions Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.

Zoeller and Jacobsen were each making their second appearances at the tournament and their first as a team.

"These guys in this thing are Hall of Famers. These are legends," Jacobsen said. "Once we got past the resumes on the first nine holes, we kind of settled in."

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