Senior PGA Tour’s leading money winner commits to Hyundai Team

Matches at Pelican Hill

Richard Dunn

NEWPORT COAST - Bruce Fleisher, on pace to win his second straight

money title on the Senior PGA Tour, committed Wednesday to the Hyundai

Team Matches Dec. 15-17 at Pelican Hill Golf Club.

Fleisher, last year’s Senior Tour Rookie of the Year and Player of the

Year with a tour-leading $2,515,705 in earnings, “accepted our invitation

about an hour ago,” tournament director Gary Pollard said Wednesday about

3:30 p.m.

Fleisher played with David Graham last year and finished third in the

made-for-television event, but did not want to announce his partner.

Returning champions and invited players pick their own partner in the

postseason tournament that features the PGA, Senior PGA and LPGA tours.

Fleisher joins Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson, and Gary McCord and John

Jacobs, in the eight-player, four-team Senior Tour contingent. Each tour

has four teams with two players on each squad. The event is televised by

ABC. Tickets: (949) 759-5175.