ALEX CEJKA

AKRON, Ohio — (AP) — Jerry Kelly shot a 5-under 65 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with Alex Cejka in the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship. The Principal Charity Classic winner last month in Iowa, the 55-year-old Kelly had six birdies and a bogey to match Cejka at 9-under 201 on Firestone Country Club’s South Course. 1, getting the ball in the fairway, so I can have control of my irons,” Kelly said. The 51-year-old Czech-born German is chasing his third senior major title after winning the Regions Tradition and Senior PGA last year. The 51-year-old New Zealander won the Senior PGA Championship in late May in Michigan for his first senior major victory.

AKRON, Ohio — (AP) — Steven Alker shot a bogey-free 4-under 66 on Friday for a share of the second-round lead in the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship with Joe Durant, Tim Petrovic and Alex Cejka. A three-time winner this season and the Charles Schwab Cup points leader, Alker had three straight birdies on Nos. A few more putts would be nice, but yeah, at Firestone, just fairways and greens around here.”Alker won the Senior PGA Championship in late May in Michigan for his first senior major victory. Defending champion Steve Stricker had a bogey-free 65 to join Ernie Els (68), Woody Austin (66) and David Toms (69) at 5 under. Stricker scrambled to save par on his final hole.

AKRON, Ohio — (AP) — Alex Cejka birdied two of the final three holes for a 6-under 64 and a two-stroke lead Thursday in the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship. Alker, with three victories, and Jimenez, with two, are the only multiple winners on the PGA Tour Champions this year. The tournament is the second of three straight majors on the PGA Tour Champions schedule. Padraig Harrington won the U.S. Senior Open two weeks ago at Saucon Valley. He went from the U.S. Senior Open to the Irish Open and next week is at St. Andrews for the British Open.

Kirk Triplett shot a 9-under 63 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead over Jerry Kelly, Ken Tanigawa and Brett Quigley after the first round of the PGA Tour Champions’ Principal Charity Classic.

Steve Stricker completed at a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the Regions Tradition, closing with a 4-under 68 for a six-stroke victory and his fourth PGA Tour Champions major title.

The PGA Tour Champions newcomer already has wins in two senior majors and will go for a third this week in the U.S. Senior Open at Omaha Country Club. OCC is set on what once was rolling farmland on the north edge of the city and was the site of the 2013 Senior Open. Among them playing in the Senior Open for the first time are Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Jose Maria Olazabal, Rich Beem and Mike Weir. There was no U.S. Senior Open last year because of the pandemic. The 60-year-old Perry, who also won the Senior Open in 2017, has only two top-10 finishes in 22 events this year.

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Champions Tour Golf Alex Cejka, of Germany, tees off on the seventh hole during the final round of the Regions Tradition Champions Tour golf tournament Sunday, May 9, 2021, in Hoover, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) (Butch Dill)BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (AP) — Alex Cejka won the Regions Tradition on Sunday in only his third PGA Tour Champions start, beating defending champion Steve Stricker with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. A childhood refugee from communist Czechlosovokia (now the Czech Republic), the 50-year-old Cejka made a 14-foot birdie putt on No. He made his first two PGA Tour Champions starts as a Monday qualifier, and tied for second at the Chubb Classic. Stricker made about a 13-foot birdie putt on the final hole to force the playoff when Cejka two-putted for par after a poor bunker shot. Stricker had won both previous times on the PGA Tour Champions when holding the 54-hole lead, the Regions Tradition and U.S. Senior Open Championship, both in 2019.

Alex Cejka won the Regions Tradition on Sunday in only his third PGA Tour Champions start, beating defending champion Steve Stricker with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (AP) — Defending champion Steve Stricker made a long eagle putt on the final hole for 7-under 65 and the third-round lead Saturday in the Regions Tradition, the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors. Stricker moved a stroke ahead of Alex Cejka with the eagle that got him to 14-under 202 at Greystone Golf & Country Club. Made a good putt.”It was shades of Friday when Stricker moved into a four-way share of the lead with a birdie on No. “Winning here a couple years has given me confidence that I can play well around here,” Stricker said. Cejka and Stricker shared the second-round lead with Jerry Kelly and Darren Clarke.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (AP) — Defending champion Steve Stricker birdied the final hole Friday for a 3-under 69 to move into a four-way tie for the lead halfway through the Regions Tradition. Stricker joined Madison, Wisconsin, neighbor Jerry Kelly, Monday qualifier Alex Cejka and first-round leader Darren Clarke atop the leaderboard in the first of the PGA Tour Champions' five majors. It was a huge turnaround from a rocky PGA Tour Champions debut in February when he closed with a 78 in Arizona. Two-time champion Bernhard Langer's 69 put him only two strokes back in pursuit of his 12th PGA Tour Champions major title. “I need to cut out the bogeys,” Pride said.