Any Day Ticket
$20 in advance, $25 at the gate
Each ticket provides admission June 23– 26, and
any one day of the competition rounds (June
27– 29)
Season Badge
$50 in advance
Each badge provides access all week, June 23– 29
Champions Club Ticket
$50
Each ticket is day-specific and provides admission
to one day of the competition rounds, with access
to the grounds and the Champions Club –
featuring a skybox-style setting and upscale food
and beverages for purchase.
Red Ticket Package
$300 in advance
Includes 6 Any Day Tickets and six Season Badges
(a savings of $120)
White Ticket Package
$300 in advance
Includes 8 season badges (a savings of $100)
Blue Ticket Package
$300 in advance
Includes 20 Any Day Tickets (a savings of $100)
Champions Club Package
$2,000 in advance
Includes 10 Champions Club Tickets and 2 VIP
Parking Passes per competition round day
TV TIMES
You can catch the Commerce Bank
Championship exclusively on the Golf
Channel at the following times:
Friday, June 27 1– 3 p.m. ET
Saturday, June 28 1– 4 p.m. ET
Sunday, June 29 1– 4 p.m. ET
RECENT COMMERCE
BANK CHAMPIONSHIP
WINNERS
Year Player
2007 Lonnie Nielsen
2006 John Harris
2005 Ron Streck
2004 Jim Thorpe
2003 Jim Thorpe
2002 Huber t Green
2001 Bobby Wadkins
2000 Bruce Fleisher
1999 Bruce Fleisher
1998 Gary Player
The names have changed, but the main attraction – great golf
action – remains the same at the Commerce Bank
Championship. What is now a Champions Tour event started
as the Northville Invitational in 1987, one year after Raymond
Floyd’s stirring victory in the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills
made it clear that Long Island was ready for an annual tour
event. This year’s event will be played the week of June 23-29, with the three
tournament rounds scheduled for June 27-29 at Eisenhower Park’s Red Course in
East Meadow, N.Y.
The event’s original name came from Northville Industries, the company led by
Harold, Jay and Gene Bernstein, who were the driving forces behind creating the
tournament. After a successful debut as an unofficial event, the Champions Tour
– then the Senior PGA Tour – added the Northville Long Island Classic to its
schedule in 1988. The event has been nationally televised every year since
1990, and Commerce Bank came on board as the title sponsor in 2004.
In the two-plus decades of Commerce Bank Championship action, a number of
the game’s biggest names have played in, and claimed victory at, the event. Jack
Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Raymond Floyd have all teed it up at the Commerce
Bank Championship, and Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Jim Thorpe, Bruce Fleisher and
George Archer have all won the championship multiple times. Meanwhile, players
such as Fleisher, Dana Quigley, Bobby Wadkins and Lonnie Nielsen – the longtime
New York professional – have all earned their first Champions Tour victories at
the Commerce Bank Championship.
Nielsen’s victory at last year’s Commerce Bank Championship was especially
sweet. After celebrating his 54th birthday on the event’s first day, Nielsen rolled
to a two-stroke victory over Loren Roberts for his first Champions Tour victory.
Winning was nothing new to Nielsen, who counts more than 30 victories in PGA
of America events and smaller tours. But the two-time New York State Open
