Toshiba Senior Classic

What: Toshiba Senior Classic

Who: 78 Senior PGA Tour professionals; 54 holes of stroke play with no

cuts

Where: Newport Beach Country Club, 1600 East Pacific Coast Highway,

Newport Beach, CA

When: Feb. 28 through March 5, 2000 (three-round senior tour play is

March 3-5)

Purse: $1.3 million; winner receives $195,000

TV coverage: ESPN (live), March 3, noon to 2 p.m.; March 4, 3 p.m. to

4:30 p.m.; March 5, 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Schedule subject to change

Past champions:

1999 -- Gary McCord

1998 -- Hale Irwin

1997 -- Bob Murphy

1996 -- Jim Colbert

1995 -- George Archer (at Mesa Verde Country Club)

Course designers: Ted Robinson (1985), Harry Rainville (1973) and

William Bell (1952)

Layout: Par 71, 6,584 yards

Operating charity: Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

Tournament chairmen: Hank Adler and Jake Rohrer

Tournament director: Jeff Purser

Monday qualifier: Strawberry Farms Golf Club, Irvine

Tickets:

Advance purchase (good any day), $14

Single day (Monday through Thursday at gate), $15

Single day (Friday through Sunday at gate), $17

Week-long badge (Monday through Sunday, grounds only), $50

Season clubhouse badge (Monday through Sunday, grounds and clubhouse),

$100

Information: call (949) 515-4840, or purchase tickets online at

www.ToshibaSeniorClassic.com.