The Senior PGA Championship

Tournament Info for: 2003 Senior PGA Championship
Date:	June 05 - 08, 2003
Site:	Aronimink GC
Champion:	John Jacobs
Purse:	$2,000,000.00
Field:	144
Cut at:	147
Par:	35 - 35 - 70 (6,928 yards) 36 - 36 - 72 (6,928 yards)
Players Advanced:	71

As a cold Sunday evening drizzle spritzed down upon Aronimink Golf Club, John Jacobs stopped before the locker room entrance and re-lighted a Cuban Fuente cigar. It was a time to savor the fruit of a 31-hole grind that produced a two-stroke victory in the 64th Senior PGA Championship. Jacobs wrote a special chapter in the oldest and most prestigious event in senior golf on a soggy, challenging 6,928-yard Donald Ross masterpiece layout some 45 minutes east of Philadelphia. The 144-player field featured perhaps the strongest and deepest senior field with 22 players who had combined for 73 major championships, and 30 international players representing 12 countries. For much of the first 54 holes, it was anyone's race to the finish. Jacobs completed a rain-delayed 13 holes of his third round Sunday morning for a 71, standing two strokes behind Ireland's Des Smyth. Jacobs then gritted his teeth around another cigar and finished with a 2-under-par 68 for a winning 72-hole total of 4-under-par 276. It was a good two-stroke margin over Bobby Wadkins, who finished second a year ago. Bruce Lietzke and defending champion Fuzzy Zoeller tied for third at 279, while Smyth, who finished with a 74, and 2000 Champion Doug Tewell, a closing 69, shared fifth at 280.

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