Just before the start of the final round of the 2024 Regions Tradition, the first of five majors in 2024 on the PGA Tour Champions schedule, Steve Stricker withdrew from next week’s PGA Championship, the second major of the PGA Tour campaign. Stricker was in that field by virtue of his win in the 2023 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship.

The journey for this journeyman has seldom been a mundane one, Doug Barron having run a gamut from lowlights to highlights in a meandering career that reached its apex on Sunday afternoon. Barron, 54,

Doug Barron won the Regions Tradition on Sunday for his third PGA Tour Champions victory and first major title, shooting a 4-under 68 to hold off Steven Alker by 2 strokes. Barron finished at 17-under 271 at Greystone in the first of the season's five senior majors.