Defending Champion: Chris Moawad
DATE: September 21, 2013
FORMAT: Derby
PAST CHAMPIONS:
2012: Chris Moawad
2011: Walter Vargas
2010: Walter Vargas
2009: Walter Vargas
2008: Chris Moawad
2007: Gerry Vaughan
2006: Walter Vargas
Walter Vargas’s 3-year reign at the Survivor ended in heartbreaking fashion when an unplanned trick shot – thanks to a divot – sent his dreams of a 4-peat down the drain. Chris Moawad, the last man to win before Vargas’s streak, took home his 2nd Survivor trophy.
COURSE: Armand Hammer
601 Club View Dr. 90024
Check-In Time: 8:40
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This year’s edition is rife with compelling storylines. Defending champion Chris Moawad is without a win. The window is closing for the 2012 Player Of The Year to avoid being just the 3rd winner of the award to go winless the following season.
4-time champion Walter Vargas, who practically owns this tournament, enters without a win this season. There is no better tournament to end Vargas’s 21-month, 14-tournament winless streak.
A suddenly hot Armen Grigorian faces his nemesis, the one major obstacle in the 3 remaining tournament victories towards completing the career slam.
With a tenuous hold on the top spot of the player rankings Doug Vargas is hoping to avoid last year’s scenario between then #1 Armen Grigorian and #2 Chris Moawad. After the Survivor in which Moawad won and Grigorian suffered an early exit, Grigorian’s lead was reduced to a mere 1.2 points. He would lose Player Of The Year to Moawad at the season-ending Tour Championship.