Richard Green - REDEMPTION!

AUG 17, 2025 - Richard Green finally got it done at the 2025 Rogers Charity Classic. At 54 years old and in his 71st career PGA Tour Champions start, the Aussie earned his first-ever win, and you could feel the relief pour out of him the second that final birdie putt dropped on the par-5 18th at Canyon Meadows.

Green capped his week with a final-round 65, highlighted by six birdies and only one bogey, to finish at 18-under (192). His consistency was the difference maker: rounds of 65, 62, and 65 meant he was knocking on the door all week long. But what really sealed it? That clutch birdie on the closing hole, the perfect exclamation point to a long-awaited breakthrough.

It wasn’t without drama, though. Ricardo Gonzalez, playing just ahead, nearly stole the show. Gonzalez went on a late tear with four birdies in his last five holes, including the 18th, carding a matching 65. For a moment, it looked like he might force extra holes—but Green shut the door with ice in his veins.

And then there was Miguel Ángel Jiménez. The cigar-smoking Schwab Cup leader opened with back-to-back 63s and looked poised to cruise. But a closing 68 left him two shots back in third. Still, the always-sporting Jiménez was among the first to embrace Green after the win.

The victory was doubly sweet for Green, who had endured five runner-up finishes in 2024, including last year’s Rogers Charity Classic, where he let the lead slip away on Sunday. This time, he credited a confident putter and the receptive Canyon Meadows greens for finally flipping the script.

When the dust settled, Green donned the celebratory white Stetson, pumped his fists, and smiled like a man who’d been waiting years for this moment.

5 FUN GOLFER FACTS ABOUT THE 2025 ROGERS CHARITY CLASSIC

• This is GREEN'S 1st PGA TOUR Champions win in his 71st start at the age of 54 years

• This win marks the 40th win by an Australian Player on the PGA TOUR Champions

• GREEN'S total score of 18-under (192) is one-shot shy of the all-time tournament record, set by Rocco Mediate in 2013

• The low Canadian's on the weekend were MIEK WEIR and local golfer WES MARTIN, who both finished T38, but MARTIN only qualified to play in the tournament 3 days earlier at the last qualifier event

• Charles Schwab Cup leader MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ (T3) failed to convert a lead/co-lead into a winner for the first time this year

4 FUN GOLFER FACTS ABOUT RICHARD GREEN

• GREEN is a left handed golfer, one of the few successful lefties from Australia

•  Outside golf, GREEN has a major passion for motorsports and has competed in amateur car racing events; he owns and drives a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car, and has raced at the Bathurst 12 Hour endurance event.

• GREEN is married to Marianne Skarpnord, a professional golfer from Norway who plays on the Ladies European Tour.

• Green once cited Greg Norman as his biggest golf influence growing up, both as an idol and as a fellow Aussie lefty; he not only played against but beat him (and Ian Woosnam) in a playoff at the 1997 Dubai Desert Classic