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GRAND BLANC, Mich. – Tournament officials announced today that World Golf Hall of Fame members Bernhard Langer and Colin Montgomerie, along with major champion and holder of seven PGA TOUR Champions titles Miguel Angel Jimenez have committed to play in The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren, scheduled for September 9 - 15 at historic Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in Grand Blanc, Mich.

No player has dominated the PGA TOUR Champions circuit over the past 10 plus years more than Langer. His senior resume includes 11 major titles, three of which he grabbed in 2017 alone and his latest coming in July of this year at The Senior Open Championship presented by Rolex. The World Golf Hall of Fame member capped another stellar year in 2018, recording two wins and 14 top-10 finishes and a fifth Charles Schwab Cup title. Langer also secured a record eighth Jack Nicklaus Award as the Player of the Year and won the Byron Nelson Award as the Tour’s scoring leader for a record-breaking seventh time. The 61-year-old native of Germany has captured 40 PGA TOUR Champions titles to go with more than $28 million in earnings since making his PGA TOUR Champions debut in 2007. So far this season, Langer is No. 5 in Charles Schwab Cup rankings with seven top-10 finishes, including two wins over 14 starts. The two-time Masters winner will be making his second start at The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren. His 10-under-par performance in the inaugural event placed him in a tie for eighth place with a 68.67 tournament scoring average.

Montgomerie, 56, has recorded six PGA TOUR Champions victories since joining the TOUR in June of 2013. Three of his six wins have come in major fashion, claiming titles at the 2014 and 2015 Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid and the 2014 U.S. Senior Open Championship. In 2017 the native of Scotland grabbed his most recent victories, notching two wins and seven top-10 finishes. Last year Montgomerie’s three top-10 outings included a second and third place effort. Through 18 events played this season, he sits at No. 18 in Charles Schwab Cup rankings with six top-10s and nearly $700,000 in earnings. The World Golf Hall of Fame member has tallied 42 international tournament titles in his professional career and competed on eight Ryder Cup teams as a player and captained the European squad in 2010. Montgomerie’s tournament scoring average at The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren is 70.67 to go with a  T37 finish at Warwick Hills last year.

Jimenez, 55, claimed the Mitsubishi Electric Classic in his first PGA TOUR Champions start in April of 2014. He has since tallied an impressive 42 top-10 finishes and seven senior titles. In 2018 he posted the first two senior major wins of his career, at the Regions Tradition and The Senior Open Championship presented by Rolex, en route to finishing No. 5 in the Charles Schwab Cup. Jimenez capped off the banner year with 13 top-10s and over $1.9 million in earnings, both top marks for his PGA TOUR Champions career. He was also the only player to post top-10 finishes in all five majors. The Spaniard has recorded at least one PGA TOUR Champions win each season since joining the Tour, counting 2019 with his victory at the Chubb Classic. He is currently ranked No. 16 in the Charles Schwab Cup on strength of five top-10 outings. Jimenez boasts a resume with 21 international victories and four European Ryder Cup Team appearances. This will be his first start at The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren.

The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren will be one of the premier Regular Season events on PGA TOUR Champions in 2019, which will give way to the third-annual Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs—a season-ending, three tournament series used to determine the Tour’s season-long champion.

All three rounds of The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren will be broadcast on Golf Channel.

For more information about The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren, please visit theallychallenge.com. For the latest news and updates on social media, follow the tournament on Twitter and Instagram at @AllyChallenge and on Facebook at Facebook.com/AllyChallenge.

About The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren

The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren is an official event on the PGA TOUR Champions owned and operated by Tournaments for Charity, a Michigan non-profit corporation. This 54-hole stroke play golf tournament features 78 PGA TOUR Champions professionals competing for a $2 million purse at the historic Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The event is designed to showcase the best golf on the PGA TOUR Champions for the enjoyment of spectators and to benefit local charities in the greater Flint area. All three official rounds will be internationally televised on the Golf Channel.

For more information about The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren, please visit theallychallenge.com. For the latest Ally Challenge news and updates on social media follow the tournament on Twitter and Instagram at @AllyChallenge and on Facebook at Facebook.com/AllyChallenge.

About Ally Financial Inc.

Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) is a leading digital financial-services company with assets of $180.1 billion as of March 31, 2019. As a customer-centric company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions, we are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. We are one of the largest full-service automotive-finance operations in the country and offer a wide range of financial services and insurance products to automotive dealerships and consumers. Our award-winning online bank (Ally Bank, Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender) offers mortgage-lending services and a variety of deposit and other banking products, including savings, money-market, and checking accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), and individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Additionally, we offer securities-brokerage and investment-advisory services through Ally Invest. Our robust corporate finance business offers capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.

For more information and disclosures about Ally, visit ally.com/#disclosures.

About McLaren Health Care

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a fully integrated health network committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 14 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 588,000 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 50 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S.  McLaren has 26,000 employees and more than 85,200 network providers throughout Michigan and Indiana. Its operations are housed in more than 350 inpatient and ambulatory facilities.  Learn more at www.mclaren.org.

About HNS Sports Group

HNS Sports Group is a Dublin, Ohio-based LLC founded in 2000. The company offers over 125-plus years of collective experience and is committed to providing professional, efficient and effective client representation in the categories of sponsorship consultation, event management, hospitality management, sales representation and tournament operations within the golf market. To learn more about HNS Sports Group, visit www.hnssports.com.

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