16½ United States – 15½ International

The 2nd Presidents Cup Matches were held in 1996 between September 13 and September 15. They were played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, USA. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 16½–15½. The honorary chairmen was former President of the United States George H.W. Bush.

Format

Both teams had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. This changed from 1994 when the United States had 11 players plus a playing captain. On the first and second day four-ball was played in the morning and foursomes were played in the afternoon. On the third day only singles were played.

Teams

Team International

Captain: Peter Thomson Robert Allenby Steve Elkington Ernie Els David Frost Mark McNulty Frank Nobilo Greg Norman Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki Craig Parry Nick Price Peter Senior Vijay Singh

Team United States

Captain: Arnold Palmer

Mark Brooks

Fred Couples

David Duval

Scott Hoch

Tom Lehman

Justin Leonard

Davis Love III

Mark O'Meara

Phil Mickelson

Corey Pavin

Kenny Perry

Steve Stricker

Friday's matches

Morning Four-Ball

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse; text-align:center;" |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" ! width=160| International ! Results ! width=160| United States |- |Norman/Allenby |2 and 1 |Couples/Love III |- |Els/McNulty |2 up |Hoch/Brooks |- |Singh/Ozaki |2 and 1 |Mickelson/Pavin |- |Steve Elkington/Frank Nobilo |3 and 2 |O'Meara/Duval |- |Nick Price/Peter Senior |4 and 2 |Lehman/Stricker |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" | 1 | Four-Ball | 4 |- bgcolor="#aaffaa" ! 1 ! Overall ! 4 |}

Afternoon Foursomes

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse; text-align:center;" |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" ! width=160| International ! Results ! width=160| United States |- |Price/Frost |3 and 2 |Perry/Leonard |- |Nobilo/Parry |2 and 1 |O'Meara/Duval |- |Elkington/Singh |2 up |Lehman/Stricker |- |Els/McNulty |halved |Mickelson/Pavin |- |Norman/Allenby |1 up |Couples/Love |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" | 1 ½ | Foursomes | 3 ½ |- bgcolor="#aaffaa" ! 2 ½ ! Overall ! 7 ½ |}

Saturday's matches

Morning Four-Ball

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse; text-align:center;" |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" ! width=160| International ! Results ! width=160| United States |- |Price/Elkington |2 up |Leonard/Lehman |- |Norman/Allenby |1 up |Stricker/Pavin |- |Parry/Nobilo |2 and 1 |Perry/Hoch |- |Ozaki/Singh |2 and 1 |Love/Couples |- |Els/McNulty |4 and 3 |O'Meara/Duval |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" | 3 | Four-Ball | 2 |- bgcolor="#aaffaa" ! 5 ½ ! Overall ! 9 ½ |}

Afternoon Foursomes

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse; text-align:center;" |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" ! width=160| International ! Results ! width=160| United States |- |Senior/Frost |3 and 2 |Pavin/Mickelson |- |Nobilo/Allenby |3 and 2 |Love/Brooks |- |Price/McNulty |3 and 1 |Perry/Leonard |- |Norman/Els |1 up |Lehman/Stricker |- |Elkington/Singh |1 up |O'Meara/Hoch |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" | 4 | Foursomes | 1 |- bgcolor="#aaffaa" ! 9 ½ ! Overall ! 10 ½ |}

Sunday's matches

Singles

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align:center;" |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" ! width=160| International ! Results ! width=160| United States |- |Parry |5 and 4 |Brooks |- |Senior |3 and 2 |Duval |- |Price |1 up |O'Meara |- |Frost |7 and 6 |Perry |- |Allenby |6 and 5 |Stricker |- |McNulty |1 up |Hoch |- |Ozaki |5 and 4 |Love |- |Elkington |1 up |Leonard |- |Els |3 and 2 |Mickelson |- |Norman |3 and 1 |Pavin |- |Nobilo |3 and 2 |Lehman |- |Singh |2 and 1 |Couples |- bgcolor="#ddffdd" | 6 | Singles | 6 |- bgcolor="#aaffaa" ! 15 ½ ! Overall ! 16 ½ |}

External links

Official scores

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Name	Greg Norman
Fullname	Gregory John Norman AO
Nickname	The Great White Shark, The Shark
Birth date	February 10, 1955
Birth place	Mount Isa, Queensland
Height
Nationality
Spouse	Laura Andrassy (1981–2007), Chris Evert (2008–2009), Kirsten Kutner (2010–present)
Children	Morgan Leigh, Gregory
Residence	Hobe Sound, Florida
Yearpro	1976
Tour	PGA Tour European Tour Champions Tour
Prowins	88
Pgawins	20
Eurowins	14 (tied 15th all time)
Auswins	31 (3rd all time)
Otherwins	25
Majorwins	2
Masters	2nd/T2: 1986, 1987, 1996
Usopen	2nd: 1984, 1995
Open	Won: 1986, 1993
Pga	2nd: 1986, 1993
Award1	PGA Tour of Australia Order of Merit winner
Year1	1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988
Award2	European Tour Order of Merit winner
Year2	1982
Award3	PGA Tour leading money winner
Year3	1986, 1990, 1995
Award4	PGA Player of the Year
Year4	1995
Award5	PGA Tour Player of the Year
Year5	1995
Award6	Vardon Trophy
Year6	1989, 1990, 1994
Award7	Byron Nelson Award
Year7	1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995
Award8	Old Tom Morris Award
Year8	2008
Award9	Charlie Bartlett Award
Year9	2008
Wghofid	1087
Wghofyear	2001

Gregory John Norman AO (born 10 February 1955) is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's Number 1 ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He is nicknamed The Great White Shark or sometimes simply The Shark – a reference to Norman's blond hair, size and aggressive golf style and the shark inhabiting Australian waters.

Personal life

Background and family

Norman was born in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia to Merv and Toini Norman. His mother was the daughter of a Finnish carpenter, and his father an electrical engineer. As a youth, he played rugby and cricket and was a keen surfer. His mother was a fine golfer with a single-figure handicap. Norman began playing golf at 16 and within a year was playing to a scratch handicap. Norman attended Townsville Grammar School in Townsville, Queensland (enrolled 1964) then moved onto Aspley State High School on the north side of Brisbane, Queensland. At the age of 20, Norman served as assistant professional under Billy McWilliam OAM at Beverley Park Golf Club in Sydney, New South Wales.

Marriages

He married Laura Andrassy, an American flight attendant, on 1 July 1981. They have two children: Morgan Leigh, and Gregory. Gregory is a business management & organization major student at the University of Miami. Gregory also played with his father in a father-son team at the 2008 ADT Skills Championship in Aventura, Florida. The family lived in Hobe Sound, Florida. In May 2006, Norman announced he and his wife would divorce. He refused to comment on the reasons for this, other than to say there was no third party involved. In November 2009, it was reported that Laura Andrassy was seeking $66,500 she says is missing from payments that are part of the agreed upon settlements.

In September 2007, Norman announced he and former tennis champion Chris Evert would be married. The couple became engaged on 9 December 2007 and on 28 June 2008 were married in The Bahamas. On 2 October 2009 Evert and Norman announced they were separating, saying in a statement that they "...will remain friends and supportive of one another's family." Norman filed for divorce on 8 December 2009 at a courthouse in Florida.

In October 2010, Norman announced his engagement to interior decorator Kirsten Kutner. The couple married on the weekend of 6 November 2010 on Necker Island.

Career

Professional career: 1976-1990

His professional career began as Charlie Earp's trainee in the Royal Queensland Golf Club pro shop, earning $A28 a week. In 1976, Norman turned pro and that year earned his first victory at the West Lakes Classic at The Grange in Adelaide, South Australia. He joined the European Tour in 1977 and in 1982 he was the tour's leading money winner. He won his first Australian Open in 1980, his first of 5 wins. The following year, he joined the U.S. PGA Tour. In 1984 Norman won his maiden PGA Tour victory at the Kemper Open. Norman first came to worldwide prominence a week later at the 1984 U.S. Open. Norman holed a dramatic putt on the 72nd hole to force a playoff with former Masters champion Fuzzy Zoeller. The next day's playoff was a blowout, with Zoeller beating Norman 67-75. This was the first of what would be numerous narrow defeats, unlucky breaks and unfortunate collapses throughout his career. He was able to put the defeat behind him and win the Canadian Open in July for his second win to finish off a great year.

In 1986 Norman won two regular PGA Tour events; the Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational and the Kemper Open (for the second time), but 1986 is remembered for the Norman Slam or the Saturday Slam. Norman held the lead for all four majors through 54 holes. This meant he played in the final group for every major and had perhaps the best chance in history of winning the Grand Slam. Unfortunately for Norman he was only able to win the Open Championship at Turnberry. At the Masters Norman held the lead with Seve Ballesteros through 9 holes on Sunday. Norman double-bogeyed the par 4 10th and fell out of the lead. With Norman seemingly out of the contention the focus moved towards Jack Nicklaus, Tom Kite and Ballesteros. By playing behind the leaders, Norman was able to rejoin the pack and eventually tie for the lead with Jack Nicklaus by birdieing the 17th. He nailed his tee shot on the 18th, but pushed his approach shot to the green into the spectators and made bogey when a par would have gotten him into a playoff. At the U.S. Open he also faltered, shooting a 75 on the final day at Shinnecock Hills. He finally broke through at the Open Championship for his first major title. Norman shot a brilliant 63 on Friday and survived the weekend's brutal conditions to win by 5 shots. He was again in contention at the PGA Championship showing amazing consistency never before seen during all four majors. Once more Norman found himself in the lead at Inverness until he stumbled on Sunday again. A clear favourite for the title, he shot a 76. The tournament is famous for Bob Tway's hole-out from the greenside bunker on the 72nd hole. Tway eventually won by two strokes over Norman. 1986 established Norman as one of, if not the best player in the world; he topped the Australian Order of Merit for the fifth time and the PGA Tour money list for the first time. Norman ended the year officially ranked number 1 in the brand new Official World Golf Rankings.

The following year Norman once again found himself tied for the lead at the Masters. After an even-par 72 he found himself in a playoff with Larry Mize. On the second extra playoff hole, Norman hit his approach on the green with a chance at birdie, Mize on the other hand bailed out right of the green. Facing one of the most difficult chips on the course, Mize miraculously holed the 45-yard chip. Norman missed his birdie effort and came up short for the second year in a row. Norman had a rough 1987 which featured no wins on either the PGA or European tours. He enjoyed mild success between 1987 and 1989 including four wins in Australia in 1988. He won the MCI Heritage Golf Classic at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in April 1988, inspired by a leukemia-stricken teenager who got his wish to meet Norman and watch him play; he was only supposed to watch him for two rounds, but Norman arranged for him to stay until the tournament's completion, after which Norman gave him the winner's trophy. At the 1989 Masters Tournament, he came to the 72nd hole ultimately needing a par to make a playoff or a birdie to win, but he bogeyed the hole to miss a playoff, after unconventionally teeing off with a one-iron. He had another great chance at a major in 1989 this time at the Open Championship. He played brilliantly in a final-round 64 to force his way into a playoff with Mark Calcavecchia. The two players came to the home hole, the fourth in a four hole playoff, with Norman level with Calcavecchia. Calcavecchia sliced his drive badly to the right and Norman hit a tremendous drive down the middle of the fairway. Unlucky for Norman his drive bounced to the right and bounded into a fairway bunker 310 yards from the tee. Once more Norman went for broke from the bunker and the ball smashed into the bunker's face and limped into another. Norman thinned his next shot and the ball careered out of bounds. That was the end as Calcavecchia took home the title. at Westchester Country Club]]

In 1990 Norman would miss the cut at the Masters for the first time in his career, but he did win the Doral-Ryder Open in March and Jack Nicklaus's Memorial Tournament for the first time (Norman was the 54 hole leader and the final round was cancelled due to rain, giving him the victory). He also lost two tournaments in ways which directly echoed his losses to Mize and Tway and further enhanced his reputation of being unlucky at winning golf tournaments. He was leading the Nestle Invitational in Orlando, Florida by one shot until Robert Gamez holed out a 170+ yard shot over water on the 72nd hole to defeat Norman. Within a few weeks, Norman was tied for the lead at the USF&G; Classic in Louisiana when David Frost holed out a greenside sand shot on the 72nd hole, to beat Norman by one. It might have not been the strongest year in the majors for Norman but he finished atop the PGA Tour money list for the second time in his career along with winning the Vardon Trophy and Byron Nelson Award. Later that year he won the Australian Masters in his home country of Australia for a final and record sixth time.

Professional career: 1991-2009

After a career slump in the early 1990s, Norman turned to Butch Harmon for help. Together, the two rebuilt Norman's game to top form by solving mechanical problems that had crept into Norman's swing. The new swing brought him great results including his second major at Royal St George's. In ideal conditions, Norman defeated a star studded leader board including Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer and Corey Pavin. Norman returned a 64, the lowest final round in Open history. Gene Sarazen, who stood at the 18th Green of St Georges later said of Norman's achievement: "I never thought I would live to see golf played like this." Norman's playing partner Langer also commented, calling it the finest round he had ever witnessed. The year's PGA Championship was again staged at Inverness. He had a final green putt of around twelve feet for victory that lipped right around the hole and failed to drop, and lost the subsequent playoff to Paul Azinger. At the PGA Championship, he became one of only two players to have competed in - and, like Craig Wood, to have lost - playoffs in all four of the major championships.

The next year at The Players Championship, Norman obliterated the records for the lowest 18, 54 and 72-hole scores. After opening with a course-record-tying 63, he followed with three 67s to give him a 24-under 264 total - six strokes better than any previous winner.

Norman started 1995 with a third place finish at the Masters and again found himself with the 54 hole lead at the U.S. Open. Even though he held the lead for most of the day he was over taken by Corey Pavin on the back nine. In June, Norman won his second Memorial Tournament, a victory that marked the beginning of one of his best years on the PGA Tour. After his win at the Canon Greater Hartford Open, aided by a chip-in in for eagle on #14 in the final round, Norman overtook Nick Price as the number one golfer in the world. Later, he won the NEC World Series of Golf, holing a 70 foot birdie chip shot to defeat Price in a playoff on the first hole. He ultimately held the #1 ranking for 331 weeks in his career. He also topped the money list for the third time and was named PGA Player of the Year. 1995 is arguable Norman's greatest year even without winning a major title.

The following year, Norman came into the 1996 Masters Tournament having already won at the Doral-Ryder Open (though he also missed the cut at the Players Championship and the Bayhill Invitational beforehand). He opened his championship with a course record 63 which propelled him to the top of the leaderboard. He held the lead through three days for play. With 5 previous top five finishes at Augusta, and a 6 shot lead. Norman's long awaited Masters victory seem to be evident. In one of the worst meltdowns in major championship history (along with Ken Venturi shooting a final round 80 in 1956 Masters to lose by one shot), he took a six-stroke lead into the final round and lost the tournament to Nick Faldo by five strokes, shooting a Sunday 78 to Faldo's 67. Norman's 6 shot lead evaporated quickly with 3 straight bogeys on holes 9-11, and after Norman found water on the 12th hole, resulting in a double bogey, playing companion Faldo had taken the lead. Norman tried to give himself a chance down the stretch including an eagle chip on the 15th which lipped out of the hole dropping Norman to his knees. Maybe the most infamous shot of his career was on the very next hole; a hooked tee shot into the water ending any chance at victory. ESPN, as part of their "ESPN25" 25th-anniversary celebration, ranked Norman's 1996 Masters disaster as the third-biggest sports choke of the last 25 years. Despite the losses, though, Norman still has 30 top-ten finishes in the majors. And, amazingly, he came back to lead the very next major, the 1996 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills, after 36 holes, though he faded on the weekend.

In January 1997, Norman won his largest winner's check to date, 1 million dollars, when he won the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf (the precursor to the WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship), making birdie on the last hole to defeat Scott Hoch in the 36 hole final. Then Norman won twice in 1997, but they were his last. In 1998 Norman missed part of the season after suffering hip and shoulder injuries. Norman did make one more run at the Masters in 1999, battling José María Olazábal on the final day, and even briefly leading the tournament after an eagle on 13, before fading to finish 3rd behind the winner Olazabal and Davis Love III. After this, Norman's name virtually disappeared from golf leaderboards and Norman only showed an occasional flash of his previous brilliance, perhaps due to age, shaken confidence, the new technology, the emergence of Tiger Woods and other young golfers, and/or Norman's increasing involvement in business ventures.

In July 2008, despite not playing in a major for three years, Norman finished nine over par in a tie for third at The Open Championship after being the 54 hole leader by two strokes. He set the record in becoming the oldest 54-hole leader in a major championship (broken the following year by Tom Watson, also in the Open) and earned an automatic bid to the 2009 Masters . His trip to the Masters was his first since 2002. Though he missed the cut, he said he was happy to give his (now former) wife and tennis legend Chris Evert an opportunity to experience "golf's Wimbledon" firsthand.

Norman played his warm up to the 2009 Masters Tournament at the Shell Houston Open on the PGA Tour at the Redstone Golf Club where he made the half-way cut. It was only the fourth cut he has made on the PGA Tour since 2004.

Though neither was in a major or PGA Tour event, Norman had two notable faceoffs with Tiger Woods. At the 1998 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia, Norman and Woods played a close match, with Woods winning 1-up. Under different circumstances, this could have been a very significant match beyond the star power involved, but since the International Team (Norman) won by a lopsided margin over the U.S. Team (Woods), this match had little effect on the final result, though it was a riveting match between the former and current #1 players in the world. (Besides the Woods match, the International Team's victory over the U.S. Team in Norman's home country was one of the great moments of Norman's career, and to date still the only win for the International Team in Presidents Cup matches). Norman got payback of a sort in the 2001 Skins Game, in which he not only defeated Woods (as well as Colin Montgomerie and Jesper Parnevik), he also was the only person in Skins Game history to sweep all the prize money (1 million dollars) and leave the other players, including Woods, empty handed. This was the only year that the Skins Game was contended under the controversial validation format.

Champions Tour

Norman turned 50 in February 2005, but has kept his distance from the senior golf circuit. Partly this is because of his other interests, but also because of back and knee injuries. He had knee surgery in October 2005 and February 2006. Norman believes his back injuries could have been averted had he been introduced to the concept of golf fitness early in his career. at Royal Birkdale.]] In May 2008, Norman played in only his third Champion's Tour event since turning 50, the 69th Senior PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club. Norman, having not played competitive golf regularly in the last several years, stayed in contention all week and wound up three shots behind eventual winner Jay Haas (+7), tying for sixth place. His new wife, tennis legend Chris Evert, has been a large part of Norman's consideration to enter events on the PGA and Champions Tours. "I would doubt he'd go back full time," Evert said. "But for him to keep it up, one or two tournaments a month or whatever, would be great. I would 100 per cent support him if that's what he wanted to do."

After Norman's surprise success at the Open Championship, he continued his strong play, finishing in a tie for fifth at the Senior British Open Championship and fourth in the U.S. Senior Open after being the only player to shoot 72 or lower all four days. He finished 2008 playing in four majors and finishing in the top ten in all of them.

In the 2009 Senior British Open Championship, he held the 54-hole lead after playing three consistent rounds, but faltered on Sunday to finish tied for sixth, 3 shots behind eventual winner Loren Roberts.

Career achievements and legacy

Norman has earned more than $1 million five times on the U.S. PGA Tour, including three Arnold Palmer Awards as the Tour's leading money winner in 1986, '89 and '95. He was also the first person in Tour history to surpass $10 million in career earnings. He has 30 top 10 finishes in Majors, or more than 38 percent of those he has entered.Even with two Open Championships and a Players Championship, Norman is regarded as an underachiever (given his talents), a characterization fueled by his myriad near-misses in The Masters, the U.S. Open, and the PGA Championship. He was equally a victim of his own bad luck and good luck on the part of his fellow golfers in major championships.

Norman won the PGA Tour of Australia's Order of Merit six times: 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, and 1988. He won the European Tour's Order of Merit in 1982, and topped the PGA Tour's Money List in 1986, 1990, and 1995. He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average on the PGA Tour three times: 1989, 1990, and 1994; and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001. His dominance over his peers (despite his comparative lack of success in the majors) was probably best expressed in the Official World Golf Rankings: Norman finished the season on top of the ranking list on seven occasions, in 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996 and 1997, and was second at the end of 1988, 1993 and 1994.

In 1986, Norman was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award, a feat he replicated in 1993 to join Muhammad Ali and Björn Borg as multiple winners (They have since been joined by Roger Federer). He received the 2008 Old Tom Morris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, GCSAA's highest honor, at the 2008 Golf Industry Show in Orlando. Norman is a member of The Environmental Institute for Golf's board of trustees and also chairs The Institute's advisory council. He was the also the recipient of the Golf Writers Association of America's 2008 Charlie Bartlett Award.

Articulate and with a friendly image, Norman has for years been a spokesman for companies including General Motors-Holden, which developed a Commodore model named after him. His own businesses interests include MacGregor Golf and Greg Norman Golf Course Design. He continues to play tournaments, his growing business interests take up an increasing amount of his time. His personal wealth is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars.

Playing style

Norman will always be remembered for his style of play. Norman had one of the best swings of his generation with one of the fastest tempos. He had incredibly high ball flight which enabled him to carry the ball very long distances. He demonstrated the best technique around the greens and was strong in all aspects.

In Norman's heyday, driving long and incredibly straight off the tee similar to that of Nick Price his contemporary with a persimmon (wood) clubhead, he intimidated most of his fellow professionals. However, with the advent of the "metal-wood" by TaylorMade and other subsequent advances in golf ball and golf club technology (especially the variable face depth driver), his dominance was significantly diminished, as the "new technology" enabled less precise ball-strikers to achieve equal or better accuracy and distance. Norman is regarded, aside from Jack Nicklaus, as being the greatest driver of the golf ball in golf history.

Other ventures

Norman's hobbies include offshore game fishing. He has owned a succession of increasingly large and luxurious boats (though his latest, called Aussie Rules, after the sport Australian rules football, may best be described as a small ship) for the purpose. He even described his "ugly" 1993 PGA Championship loss "[i]n fishing terms, this was a mackerel in the moonlight—shining one minute, smelly the next." He became a wine lover in the 1970s while playing at tournaments in Europe. Based in Hobe Sound, Florida, he typically plays only one or two tournaments per year in his homeland of Australia.

Charity

Merrill Lynch Shootout is a team golf event hosted by Greg Norman. The event is played at the Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Florida. The shootout benefits CureSearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation. Greg Norman Golf Foundation: The Greg Norman Golf Foundation was formed by Greg Norman and his father Merv Norman in 1987. The foundation provides professional guidance and instruction throughout Queensland to school students and those in other educational establishments, children with specific physical disabilities and junior members of golf clubs. The Environmental Institute for Golf, the philanthropic arm of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA), is a collaborative effort of the environmental and golf communities, dedicated to strengthening the compatibility of golf with the natural environment. In January 2003, The Institute evolved from The GCSAA Foundation, originally established in 1955, with a new name, mission and focus. The Institute concentrates on delivering programs and services involving information collection, research, education and outreach that communicate the best management practices of environmental stewardship on the golf course.

Golf Course Design

Norman has devoted much of his time to golf course design and established his Greg Norman Golf Course Design in 1987. GNGCD has completed more than 70 golf courses on six continents.

Medallist Developments

Medallist Developments is a multi award winning residential developer which specializes in camenity-focussed lifestyle communities. Medallist was formed in 1997 as a joint venture between Greg Norman's Great White shark Enterprises and Macquarie Group Limited.

Southern Cross Developments

Southern Cross Developments International ("Southern Cross") is a real estate development and investment company specializing in the use of branding, lifestyle positioning and capital structuring to differentiate and enhance real estate. Southern Cross was founded by Greg Norman, Jeremy Seabridge and Brett Walsh and operates out of the Florida headquarters of Great White Shark Enterprises. Southern Cross is the exclusive licensor for Greg Norman in residential real estate applications, including the "Norman Estates", "By Greg Norman", "Norman Residences", and "Norman Club Villas" brands.

Turf Company

Established in 1995, Greg Norman Turf Company licenses proprietary turfgrasses for golf courses, athletic fields and home lawns. GNTC owns the exclusive rights for GN-1 hybrid bermudagrass, which has been its main product. It also was the turf of choice for Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami and XXXV in Tampa, the 1999 World Series and the 2000 Summer Olympic Games at Stadium Australia.

Australian Grille

In October 1999, Norman opened a his own restaurant in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina called the Australian Grille.

Greg Norman Australian Prime

In 2006, Norman and Australia's leading beef producer, Australian Agricultural Company (AAco), announced the formation of a venture to develop and export a line of Greg Norman-branded premium steaks and beef products. Greg Norman Australian Prime (GNAP) produces an export line for food service and retail sale starting with two selections: Greg Norman Signature Wagyu, a super-premium steak produced from 300-day fed Wagyu cattle; and, Greg Norman Premium, produced from 130-day grain fed cattle. The brand is now offered in the United States through GNAP's U.S. importer and master distributor, Broadleaf USA.

Valderrama Golf Course

In September 2010, The Stripe Group, co-owned by Norman, purchased the Valderrama Golf Club, in Sotogrande, Spain.

Personal life

On 15 March 1997, then U.S. president Bill Clinton fell down a flight of stairs at Norman's Florida home, tearing knee tendons which required surgery.

While married to Laura, Norman commissioned the 228 ft luxury yacht Aussie Rules, built by the Australian ferry builder Austal/Oceanfast. The boat held four sports boats, including a 60 ft custom sportfisherman, along with stowage for related gear: 200 rods. Built of aluminium, she cruised at 15 knots with a range of 8,000 miles. The boat cost $70 million, but resulted in Austal making an AUS$18 million loss. The boat was quickly sold by Norman in 2004 for a rumored $77 million to the founder of Blockbuster Video, Wayne Huizenga.

Norman was also an early customer for the Boeing Business Jet, which he had ordered with custom fitted bedroom and office. However, the downturn in the Asian markets adversely affected his golf course design business, and he later cancelled the order after acting as an ambassador for Boeing. He eventually retained his Gulfstream V.

Professional wins (88)

PGA Tour wins (20)

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PGA Tour playoff record (4-8)

European Tour wins (14)

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PGA Tour of Australia wins (31)

1976 (1) West Lakes Classic

1978 (3) New South Wales Open, Traralgon Classic, Caltex Festival of Sydney Open

1980 (1) Australian Open

1981 (1) Australian Masters

1983 (3) Australian Masters, Stefan Queensland Open, National Panasonic New South Wales Open

1984 (3) Victorian Open, Australian Masters, Australian PGA Championship

1985 (2) Toshiba Australian PGA Championship, National Panasonic Australian Open

1986 (4) Stefan Queensland Open, National Panasonic New South Wales Open, West End Jubilee South Australian Open, National Panasonic Western Australian Open

1987 (2) Australian Masters, National Panasonic Australian Open

1988 (4) Palm Meadows Cup, ESP Open, PGA National Tournament Players Championship, Panasonic New South Wales Open

1989 (2) Australian Masters, PGA National Tournament Players Championship

1990 (1) Australian Masters

1995 (1) Australian Open

1996 (2) Ford South Australian Open, Australian Open

1998 (1) Greg Norman Holden International

Other wins (25)

1977 Kuzuhz International (Japan)

1978 South Seas Classic (Australia)

1979 Traralgon Classic (Australia), Hong Kong Open

1980 Suntory World Match Play Championship (England - not a European Tour event at that time)

1983 Hong Kong Open, Cannes Invitational (France - not a European Tour event), Suntory World Match Play Championship (England - not a European Tour event at that time), Kapalua International (United States)

1985 Alfred Dunhill Cup (United Kingdom - team)

1986 Suntory World Match Play Championship (England - not a European Tour event at that time), Alfred Dunhill Cup (United Kingdom - team), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (U.S. - unofficial event), Fred Meyer Challenge (with Gary Player; tie with Peter Jacobsen & Curtis Strange)

1989 The Crowns (Japan Golf Tour)

1993 Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters (Japan Golf Tour), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (U.S. - unofficial event)

1994 PGA Grand Slam of Golf (U.S. - unofficial event), Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Paul Azinger and Fred Couples)

1995 Fred Meyer Challenge (with Brad Faxon)

1996 Fred Meyer Challenge (with Brad Faxon)

1997 Fred Meyer Challenge (with Brad Faxon), Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf

1998 Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout (with Steve Elkington)

2001 Skins Game

Major championships

Wins (2)

{|class="wikitable" !Year!!Championship!!54 Holes!!Winning Score!!Margin!!Runner-up |-bgcolor="#ABCDEF" | 1986 ||The Open Championship ||1 shot lead ||E (74-63-74-69=280) ||5 strokes || Gordon J. Brand |-bgcolor="#ABCDEF" | 1993 ||The Open Championship (2)||1 shot deficit ||-13 (66-68-69-64=267) ||2 strokes || Nick Faldo |}

Results timeline

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !1977 !1978 !1979 |- |The Masters |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |- |U.S. Open |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T48 |- |The Open Championship |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T29 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T10 |- |PGA Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |}

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !1980 !1981 !1982 !1983 !1984 !1985 !1986 !1987 !1988 !1989 |- |The Masters |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|4 |align="center"|T36 |align="center"|T30 |align="center"|T25 |align="center"|T47 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T2 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T2 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T5 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |- |U.S. Open |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T33 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T50 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center"|T15 |align="center"|T12 |align="center"|T51 |align="center"|WD |align="center"|T33 |- |The Open Championship |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T31 |align="center"|T27 |align="center"|T19 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |align="center"|T16 |align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1 |align="center"|T35 |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T2 |- |PGA Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T4 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T5 |align="center"|T42 |align="center"|T39 |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center"|70 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T9 |align="center"|T12 |}

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !1990 !1991 !1992 !1993 !1994 !1995 !1996 !1997 !1998 !1999 |- |The Masters |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |align="center"|T31 |align="center"|T18 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|3 |- |U.S. Open |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T5 |align="center"|WD |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T10 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |- |The Open Championship |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T9 |align="center"|18 |align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1 |align="center"|T11 |align="center"|T15 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T7 |align="center"|T36 |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|6 |- |PGA Championship |align="center"|T19 |align="center"|T32 |align="center"|T15 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T4 |align="center"|T20 |align="center"|T17 |align="center"|T13 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |}

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !2000 !2001 !2002 !2003 !2004 !2005 !2006 !2007 !2008 !2009 |- |The Masters |align="center"|T11 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T36 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |- |U.S. Open |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T59 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |- |The Open Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T18 |align="center"|T18 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T60 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |align="center"|CUT |- |PGA Championship |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T29 |align="center"|T53 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |}

DNP = Did not play WD = Withdrew CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" indicates a tie for a place Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Summary of performances

Starts - 90

Wins - 2

2nd place finishes - 8

Top 3 finishes - 14

Top 5 finishes - 20

Top 10 finishes - 30

Longest streak of top-10s in majors - 3 (3 times)

Team appearances

Dunhill Cup (representing Australia): 1985 (winners), 1986 (winners), 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996

Presidents Cup (International team): 1994 (withdrew), 1996, 1998 (winners), 2000

Hennessy Cognac Cup: 1982

Nissan Cup: 1985, 1986

Kirin Cup: 1987

Four Tours: 1989

See also

Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

Golfers with most European Tour wins

Golfers with most PGA Tour of Australasia wins

List of men's major championships winning golfers

List of World Number One male golfers

Sanctuary Lakes

The Vintage Golf Course

List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards

References

External links

Shark.com Greg Norman's official personal and business web site

Profile on the PGA Tour of Australasia's official site

Profile on PGA Tour's official site

Profile on European Tour's official site

Greg Norman on About.com Profile and stats

Greg Norman on MacGregor Golf Norman on MacGregor Golf's Tour Staff

Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Category:Australian male golfers Category:Australian people of Swedish descent Category:Champions Tour golfers Category:European Tour golfers Category:Golf course architects Category:World Golf Hall of Fame inductees Category:Officers of the Order of Australia Category:People from Mount Isa, Queensland Category:PGA Tour golfers Category:PGA Tour of Australasia golfers Category:Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees Category:Winners of men's major golf championships

Name	Fred Couples
Fullname	Frederick Steven Couples
Nicknames	Boom Boom
Birth date	October 03, 1959
Birth place	Seattle, Washington
Death date
Height
Weight
Residence	Charlotte, North Carolina
Spouse	Thais Baker (died 2009)
College	University of Houston
Yearpro	1980
Retired
Tour	PGA Tour (joined 1982)Champions Tour (joined 2010)
Extour
Prowins	51
Pgawins	15
Eurowins	2
Champwins	4
Seneurowins
Otherwins
Majorwins	1
Masters	Won: 1992
Usopen	T3: 1991
Open	T3: 1991, 2005
Pga	2nd: 1990
Wghofid
Wghofyear
Award1	PGA Tour Player of the Year
Year1	1991, 1992
Award2	PGA Player of the Year
Year2	1992
Award3	Vardon Trophy
Year3	1991, 1992
Award4	Byron Nelson Award
Year4	1991, 1992
Award5	PGA Tourleading money winner
Year5	1992
Award6	Byron Nelson Award(Champions Tour)
Year6	2010
Awardssection

Frederick Steven Couples (born October 3, 1959) is an American professional golfer who competes on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. A former World No. 1, he has won numerous events, most notably the Masters Tournament in 1992.

Biography

Couples was born in Seattle, Washington, to Tom and Violet (Sobich) Couples. Fred's paternal grandparents had immigrated from Italy, and changed the family name from "Coppola" to "Couples" to make it sound less ethnic. His mother is of Croatian descent. His father was a groundskeeper for the Seattle Parks Department and the family, which included brother Tom, Jr., and sister Cindy, lived in a modest house on Beacon Hill. Nearby was the city's Jefferson Park golf course; here Fred developed his signature loose, rhythmic swing in order to gain enough distance to keep up with the older kids. Couples attended O'Dea High School in Seattle and the University of Houston, where, as a member of the Houston Cougars men's golf team, he roomed with Blaine McCallister, another future PGA Tour player, and future CBS television broadcaster Jim Nantz. His first PGA Tour victory came at the 1983 Kemper Open. He has amassed 15 total PGA Tour victories, including The Players Championship twice (in 1984 and 1996) and one major victory, The Masters Tournament in 1992.

Couples has been named the PGA Tour Player of the Year twice, in 1991 and 1992. He also won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average each of those years. He has been named to the United States Ryder Cup team five times (1989, 1991, 1993, 1995 and 1997).

In 1992, Couples became the first American player to reach the number one position in the Official World Golf Rankings (other Americans had, of course, previously been the world's number one player, from Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones to Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus; but the "official" World Ranking points system was only instituted long after the peak of their careers and simultaneously with the rise in worldwide golf beyond the U.S., Great Britain and Ireland). He spent 16 weeks as #1 after one of the hottest starts to a season by a PGA Tour player ever. Starting with the Nissan Los Angeles Open (where he defeated Davis Love III in a playoff), Fred won two tournaments and finished second in two others (plus broke the course record at the TPC at Sawgrass with a third-round 63 in The Players Championship) in the five weeks leading up to The Masters. At Augusta, Couples carried over his momentum, shooting in the 60s in each of the first three rounds to hold second place heading into Sunday. After a shaky start to his final round that allowed 49-year-old Raymond Floyd to claim the lead, Fred took it back with 18- and 20-foot birdie putts at the 8th and 9th holes, respectively, then saved par on a slick 6-footer at 10. At 12 (perhaps the scariest par-3 in the world), Couples barely cleared Rae's Creek in front of the green. Although his ball rolled back towards the water, it incredibly remained on the bank and he saved par. Sensing that destiny was on his side, Couples held off Floyd the rest of the way, completing Augusta's treacherous back nine with eight pars and one birdie to win his first Major. The win pushed Couples past the $1 million mark in earnings on the season as well, by far the fastest any player had reached that plateau.

Couples is sometimes called "Mr. Skins" because of his dominance in the Skins Game. He has won the event five times (in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2004), accumulating US$3,515,000 and 77 skins in 11 appearances. Because of his dominance at the Skins and other off-season events like the Johnnie Walker World Golf Championship, Couples is also known as the "King of the Silly Season," referring to the exotic made-for-TV events staged in the winter that are better known as the "silly season". Couples was frequently accused of "choking" in his early career, with mistakes in the 1989 Ryder Cup and the 1990 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club often mentioned.

Couples is a frequent visitor to the UK, and has an excellent record in the Open Championship, where he has finished several times in the top ten. His best places are tied 3rd in 1991 at Royal Birkdale -shooting a last round 64, and tied 3rd in 2005 at St Andrews. He completed his first visit to St Andrews in 1984 on a spectacular high by holing his approach at 18 for an eagle on the final day.

Back problems have, at least in part, truncated Couples' career. His swing features an extreme shoulder turn at the top, which, combined with the fact that he keeps his left foot flat on the ground throughout the backswing, puts a lot of pressure on his lower back. However, with an abbreviated schedule and a little help from swing coach Butch Harmon, Couples is still one of the best players on Tour. In 2003, at age 44, Couples finished 34th on the PGA Tour money list. That year he also won the Shell Houston Open, his first win in five years; Couples wept with joy after the win, but quickly explained the tears: "I'm always emotional when nice things happen to nice people," he quipped.

In April 2006, Couples challenged at Augusta, making a Sunday run at what would have been his second green jacket before finally bowing out to eventual winner Phil Mickelson, with whom he was paired in the final round. Had Couples won, he would have been the oldest player ever to win the Masters at age —supplanting Jack Nicklaus, who, coincidentally, won his final Masters 20 years earlier and also at the age of 46. His competitiveness in the tournament was an encouraging sign for his career. "I didn't hit the ball like I was 46," Couples said.

Couples' part in the USA 1993 Dunhill Cup win included victory in all five of his matches, and his overall record reads: played 16, won 12, lost 4. In 2004, Couples won the Dunhill Links Championship Team Event at St Andrews, partnered by New Zealand amateur Craig Heatley.

In 2005 Couples sank a crucial putt in the Presidents Cup, securing an unlikely 1-up victory over the International team's best player, Vijay Singh. This match proved to be pivotal in the contest. Couples has now played Singh three times in Presidents Cup match play, and has yet to lose. in Lévis, Canada]] Couples was sidelined for virtually the entire 2007 season because of health problems. However, he did compete in the 2007 Masters, making the cut for the 23rd consecutive time, tying the record held by Gary Player. Couples missed the cut in 2008 and 2009.

In 2009, Couples limited his play but performed impressively at the Northern Trust Open. If it wasn't for Phil Mickelson shooting a 62 on that Saturday, Couples may have won instead of finishing third. He nearly won the Shell Houston Open but bogeyed the last three holes and finished third behind Paul Casey. He also played well at the HP Byron Nelson Championship (T8) and the AT&T; National (T11) tournaments. He hurt his back practicing for the RBC Canadian Open and had to withdraw. But he rested and recovered and made the cut for the 2009 PGA Championship (T36) and performed successfully in the Wyndham Championship (T5) which put him past the $1,000,000 mark on the money list for the 7th time in his career.

Couples was named as 2009 Presidents Cup captain for the United States team on February 26, 2008 and led the Untited States team to a decisive victory.

Couples made his debut on the Champions Tour at the opening event of the 2010 season, the Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hawaii. He nearly won the tournament, finishing second to Tom Watson. Couples later stated, "I had a wonderful time. I think I was 21 under par and didn't win a tournament. That hasn't happened too many times." Had he won, he would have become the 16th player to win his Champions Tour debut. He won his next three starts, The ACE Group Classic, the Toshiba Classic and the Cap Cana Championship, becoming the first player in Champions Tour history to win three of his first four career events. Couples made another run at the 2010 Masters Tournament but finished 6th. It was his 26th top ten finish in a major tournament. He is still looking to win his first major on the senior circuit. A second place finish in the Senior PGA Championship was a disappointment for him. But an even greater disappointment was losing the U.S. Senior Open to Bernhard Langer. Fred had a 1 shot lead after 55 holes. Then disaster struck on the par 5 2nd. He decided to lay up rather than going for the green. His lay up was good, but his 3rd shot was fat and landed in the water. After dropping 4, his 5th shot was driven over the green. He was on in 6 but finished the hole with a triple bogey. All of a sudden his 1 shot lead became a 3 shot deficit. He played solid the rest of the round, but couldn't catch up to Langer. He was very disappointed for letting down his hometown fans who cheered for him every step of the way. But a 4th win at the Administaff Small Business Classic was possibly his finest performance of the year. On Sunday, he was grouped with Corey Pavin and Mark Wiebe and soared past them and the rest of the field shooting a 9 under 63, with an astonishing 29 on the back nine. Couples won the Champions Tour Rookie of the Year award in 2010.

Couples currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Because of his long drives, Couples has been given the nickname "Boom Boom". He co-designed the Lost Canyon Golf Course in Simi Valley, California, among many others around the world.

Family

Couples' marriage to his first wife Deborah ended in 1992. They had met as students at the University of Houston in 1979. The divorce was finalized in 1993, and she later fell to her death in May 2001, ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles City coroner's office.

Couples' estranged wife, Thais Baker, died from breast cancer on February 17, 2009. They had married in 1998 and the union was childless.

Trivia

Couples enjoys a reputation for being one of the most laid-back, easygoing players on the PGA Tour. His best friend on Tour, Davis Love III, confirms this: "Everybody thinks Fred's relaxed on the golf course, but he's more tense on the golf course than anywhere. He's a relaxed guy."

Couples is an avid gardener. Couples learned gardening from his grandfather, who was a groundskeeper at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

Inducted into the National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.

Couples is one of few professional golfers who does not use a glove at any time.

Couples is a good friend of Michael Jordan and a season ticket holder for the Charlotte Bobcats, where Jordan is the majority owner.

Professional wins (51)

PGA Tour wins (15)

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*Note: The 1993 Honda Classic was shortened to 54 holes due to inclement weather

European Tour wins (2)

1995 Dubai Desert Classic, Johnnie Walker Classic

Other wins (30)

1978 Washington Open (as an amateur)

1983 JCPenney Mixed Team Classic (with Jan Stephenson)

1988 Northwest Open

1990 Northwest Open, RMCC Invitational (with Raymond Floyd), Sazale Classic (with Mike Donald)

1991 Johnnie Walker World Golf Championship

1992 World Cup (team event with Davis Love III)

1993 World Cup of Golf (individual event and team event with Davis Love III), Alfred Dunhill Cup (with John Daly and Payne Stewart), Lincoln-Mercury Kapalua International

1994 Lincoln-Mercury Kapalua International, World Cup of Golf (team event with Davis Love III), Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout (with Brad Faxon), Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Paul Azinger and Greg Norman)

1995 Johnnie Walker World Golf Championship, Skins Game, World Cup of Golf (team event with Davis Love III)

1996 Skins Game, Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Davis Love III and Payne Stewart)

1997 Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Tom Lehman and Phil Mickelson)

1999 Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout (with David Duval), Skins Game, Diners Club Matches (with Mark Calcavecchia)

2001 Hyundai Team Matches (with Mark Calcavecchia)

2003 The ConAgra Foods Skins Game, Tylenol Par-3 Shootout at Treetops Resort

2004 Merrill Lynch Skins Game, Tylenol Par-3 Shootout at Treetops Resort

2006 ING Par-3 Shootout

Champions Tour wins (4)

Major championships

Wins (1)

{|class="wikitable" !Year!!Championship!!54 holes!!Winning score!!Margin!!Runner(s)-up |-bgcolor="#D0F0C0" | 1992 ||Masters Tournament ||1 shot deficit ||-13 (69-67-69-70=275) ||2 strokes || Raymond Floyd |}

Results timeline

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !1979 !1980 !1981 !1982 !1983 !1984 !1985 !1986 !1987 !1988 !1989 |- |The Masters |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T32 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|10 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T10 |align="center"|T31 |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T5 |align="center"|T11 |- |U.S. Open |align="center"|T48 LA |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T9 |align="center"|T39 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T46 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T10 |align="center"|T21 |- |The Open Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T4 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T46 |align="center"|T40 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T4 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |- |PGA Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |align="center"|T23 |align="center"|T20 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |align="center"|T36 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |}

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !1990 !1991 !1992 !1993 !1994 !1995 !1996 !1997 !1998 !1999 |- |The Masters |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|5 |align="center"|T35 |align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1 |align="center"|T21 |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T10 |align="center"|T15 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T7 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T2 |align="center"|T27 |- |U.S. Open |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |align="center"|T17 |align="center"|T16 |align="center"|T16 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T52 |align="center"|T53 |align="center"|CUT |- |The Open Championship |align="center"|T25 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T9 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T7 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T7 |align="center"|T66 |align="center"|DNP |- |PGA Championship |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center"|T27 |align="center"|T21 |align="center"|T31 |align="center"|T39 |align="center"|T31 |align="center"|T41 |align="center"|T29 |align="center"|T13 |align="center"|T26 |}

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !2000 !2001 !2002 !2003 !2004 !2005 !2006 !2007 !2008 !2009 |- |The Masters |align="center"|T11 |align="center"|26 |align="center"|T36 |align="center"|T28 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |align="center"|T39 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |align="center"|T30 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |- |U.S. Open |align="center"|T16 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T66 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T15 |align="center"|T48 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |- |The Open Championship |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|6 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T46 |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |- |PGA Championship |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T37 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T34 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T70 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T36 |} {| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !! 2010 |- |The Masters |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|6 |- |U.S. Open |align="center"|DNP |- |The Open Championship |align="center"|DNP |- |PGA Championship |align="center"|DNP |}

LA = Low Amateur DNP = Did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" indicates a tie for a place Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Summary of performances

Starts – 87

Wins – 1

2nd place finishes – 2

Top 3 finishes – 8

Top 5 finishes – 12

Top 10 finishes – 26

Longest streak of top-10s in majors – 3 (twice)

Champions Tour major championships

{|cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse:collapse" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !! 2010 |- |Senior PGA Championship |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T2 |- |Senior British Open Championship |align="center"|DNP |- |U.S. Senior Open |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |- |The Tradition |align="center"|DNP |- |Senior Players Championship |align="center"|WD |}

DNP = Did not play WD = Withdrew CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" indicates a tie for a place Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

United States national team appearances

USA vs. Japan: 1984

Ryder Cup: 1989 (tie), 1991 (winners), 1993 (winners), 1995, 1997

Asahi Glass Four Tours World Championship of Golf: 1990, 1991

Alfred Dunhill Cup: 1991, 1992, 1993 (winners), 1994

World Cup of Golf: 1992 (winners), 1993 (winners), 1994 (winners), 1995 (winners)

Presidents Cup: 1994 (winners), 1996 (winners), 1998, 2005 (winners), 2009 (captain, winners)

See also

Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

List of World Number One male golfers

References

External links

Fred Couples' unofficial web site

Profile on PGA Tour's official site

Results in ranking events for the last two years from the Official World Golf Ranking site

Category:American golfers Category:Houston Cougars men's golfers Category:PGA Tour golfers Category:Champions Tour golfers Category:Winners of men's major golf championships Category:People from Seattle, Washington Category:Golfers from Washington (U.S. state) Category:American sportspeople of Italian descent Category:American sportspeople of Croatian descent Category:1959 births Category:Living people

Position	Goaltender
Played for	New York Rangers
Catches	Left
Height ft	5
Height in	11
Weight lb	190
Ntl team	United States
Birth date	September 22, 1966
Birth place	Abington, PA, USA
Draft	28th overall
Draft year	1985
Draft team	New York Rangers
Career start	1989
Career end	2003

Michael Thomas Richter (born September 22, 1966 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a former National Hockey League (NHL) goaltender. One of the most successful American-born goaltenders in history, he is best known for having led the New York Rangers to the Stanley Cup title in 1994 and for repeatedly representing the United States in international play. Due to his success, Richter is a part of the Class of 2008 in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, alongside his former Rangers teammate Brian Leetch.

Playing career

Richter grew up in Flourtown, Pa. near Philadelphia idolizing Philadelphia Flyers goalie Bernie Parent. He attended and played for Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, and then Northwood School in Lake Placid, N.Y. when he graduated in 1985. He also played at the Wissahickon Skating Club. After playing for the United States in the World Junior championships in 1985, he played for the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1985–1987, and the Rangers made him the 28th overall pick in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft. He would again represent the US in the World Junior championships, World championships, and the 1988 Calgary Olympics before making his NHL debut in the 1989 playoffs. Though he lost the one game in which he played, he was soon a regular member of the club, posting 12 wins against 5 losses in his rookie season as the Rangers' backup goaltender. The next two seasons, he would split playing time with the Rangers' veteran goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck, he was selected to represent the U.S. in the Canada Cup.

Vanbiesbrouck was traded before the 1993–94 season and Richter had his first season as the team's number one goaltender, posting a career-best 42 wins and 2.57 goals-against average as the Rangers won the Presidents' Trophy. His play was a key factor in the Rangers' Stanley Cup championship win over the Vancouver Canucks. His play throughout the entire post season led the Rangers to the Stanley Cup; which included his career highlight: stopping Vancouver sniper Pavel Bure on a penalty shot in Game 4 of the finals. During the season, Richter was named MVP of the All-Star Game. He became the eighth goaltender in history to post four shutouts in one playoff season, and over the next few years he would consistently be ranked among the world's top goaltenders. He led the United States to victory in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, with his efforts earning him Most Valuable Player honors. Injuries plagued much of his career with everything from MCL sprains, ACL sprains and concussions. At some points they occurred together, but he worked hard to rehabilitate his injuries to always make the return to the ice.

Richter's style of play was very acrobatic and quick. For a small goalie he made himself look big by using his lightning quick reflexes to make saves. He was rarely out of position and always square to his shooters. He was known for making plenty of desperation and sometimes unbelievable saves using his focus, flexibility, and athleticism. Long time teammate and Hall of Fame Ranger defenseman Brian Leetch once said this about Richter:

" I have never seen anyone more focused than he was. As the game got tougher, he got better. If a goal was ever scored on him I was always surprised."

His last appearance in the Stanley Cup playoffs would be 1997, as a series of knee injuries and a string of mediocre Ranger teams saw his personal statistics suffer. Nevertheless, he was selected as the top goalie for Team USA in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics, winning a silver medal in the 2002 Games. A year later a skull fracture and concussion forced him to retire, but not until after he became the first Ranger to record 300 wins. He finished his career as the Rangers all time leader in wins.

Post-retirement

His jersey (#35) became the third number retired by the Rangers at Madison Square Garden on February 4, 2004. Though he played his entire career for the Rangers, he twice changed teams between seasons due to a quirk in the NHL rules of free agency, returning to the Rangers each time. Upon his retirement and having played his entire career in New York, the Rangers posted the quote of "Once a Ranger Always a Ranger" from everything to posters, websites, bill boards and arenas. The phrase is still seen all over the place in and near Madison Square Garden.

Mike Richter returned to college in 2004, graduating in 2008 from Yale University. He majored in Ethics, Politics & Economics (EP&E;). Richter entered Yale College through the Eli Whitney Students Program, which is an admissions program of Yale College for non-traditional students. His acceptance was notable since Yale generally accepts very few students into this admissions program, which is, therefore, highly competitive. Richter volunteered as a coach for Yale's men's hockey team alongside head coach Keith Allain. Allain was an assistant coach for Team USA in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.

In 2007 the Rothenberg Political Report reported Richter, who lives in Guilford, Connecticut, was considering running for U.S. Congress under Connecticut's 4th congressional district in 2008 as a Democrat. However, on March 23, 2007, he stated that he would not run, despite still expressing interest in seeking public office one day.

Richter competed in the Ironman Triathlon at Lake Placid on July 22, 2007. The triathlon involves a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and a 26.2 mile run. He completed the grueling race in 12 hours 49 minutes 10 seconds.

On November 4, 2007 Richter ran in his first New York City Marathon finishing with a time of 3:54:35.

Career statistics

Regular season

{| BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" width="90%" style="text-align:center" |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ALIGN="center" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP ! W ! L ! T ! MIN ! GA ! SO ! GAA ! SV% |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1986–87 | UW–Madison | WCHA | 36 | 19 | 16 | 1 | 2136 | 126 | 0 | 3.53 | .901 |- ALIGN="center" | 1987–88 | Colorado Rangers | IHL | 22 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1298 | 68 | 0 | 3.14 | — |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1988–89 | Denver Rangers | IHL | 57 | 23 | 26 | 3 | 3031 | 217 | 1 | 4.30 | — |- ALIGN="center" | 1989–90 | New York Rangers | NHL | 23 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 1320 | 66 | 0 | 3.00 | .904 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1989–90 | Flint Spirits | IHL | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 782 | 49 | 0 | 3.76 | — |- ALIGN="center" | 1990–91 | New York Rangers | NHL | 45 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 2596 | 135 | 0 | 3.12 | .903 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1991–92 | New York Rangers | NHL | 41 | 23 | 12 | 2 | 2298 | 119 | 3 | 3.11 | .901 |- ALIGN="center" | 1992–93 | New York Rangers | NHL | 38 | 13 | 19 | 3 | 2105 | 134 | 1 | 3.82 | .886 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1992–93 | Binghamton Rangers | AHL | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 305 | 6 | 0 | 1.18 | .964 |- ALIGN="center" | 1993–94 | New York Rangers | NHL | 68 | 42 | 12 | 6 | 3710 | 159 | 5 | 2.57 | .910 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1994–95 | New York Rangers | NHL | 35 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 1993 | 97 | 2 | 2.92 | .890 |- ALIGN="center" | 1995–96 | New York Rangers | NHL | 41 | 24 | 13 | 3 | 2396 | 107 | 3 | 2.68 | .912 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1996–97 | New York Rangers | NHL | 61 | 33 | 22 | 6 | 3598 | 161 | 4 | 2.68 | .917 |- ALIGN="center" | 1997–98 | New York Rangers | NHL | 72 | 21 | 31 | 15 | 4143 | 184 | 0 | 2.66 | .903 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1998–99 | New York Rangers | NHL | 68 | 27 | 30 | 8 | 3878 | 170 | 4 | 2.63 | .910 |- ALIGN="center" | 1999–00 | New York Rangers | NHL | 61 | 22 | 31 | 8 | 3622 | 173 | 0 | 2.87 | .905 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2000–01 | New York Rangers | NHL | 45 | 20 | 21 | 3 | 2635 | 144 | 0 | 3.28 | .893 |- ALIGN="center" | 2001–02 | New York Rangers | NHL | 55 | 24 | 26 | 4 | 3195 | 157 | 2 | 2.95 | .906 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2002–03 | New York Rangers | NHL | 13 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 694 | 34 | 0 | 2.94 | .897 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" align="center" | NHL totals ! 666 ! 301 ! 258 ! 73 ! 38,183 ! 1840 ! 24 ! 2.89 ! .904 |}

Playoffs

{| BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" width="90%" |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ALIGN="center" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP ! W ! L ! MIN ! GA ! SO ! GAA ! SV% |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1987–88 | Colorado Rangers | IHL | 10 | 5 | 3 | 536 | 35 | 0 | 3.92 | — |- ALIGN="center" | 1988–89 | Denver Rangers | IHL | 4 | 0 | 4 | 210 | 21 | 0 | 6.00 | — |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1988–89 | New York Rangers | NHL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 4 | 0 | 4.14 | .867 |- ALIGN="center" | 1989–90 | New York Rangers | NHL | 6 | 3 | 2 | 330 | 19 | 0 | 3.45 | .896 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1990–91 | New York Rangers | NHL | 6 | 2 | 4 | 313 | 14 | 1 | 2.68 | .923 |- ALIGN="center" | 1991–92 | New York Rangers | NHL | 7 | 4 | 2 | 412 | 24 | 1 | 3.50 | .894 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1993–94 | New York Rangers | NHL | 23 | 16 | 7 | 1417 | 49 | 4 | 2.07 | .921 |- ALIGN="center" | 1994–95 | New York Rangers | NHL | 7 | 2 | 5 | 384 | 23 | 0 | 3.59 | .878 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1995–96 | New York Rangers | NHL | 11 | 5 | 6 | 662 | 36 | 0 | 3.26 | .883 |- ALIGN="center" | 1996–97 | New York Rangers | NHL | 15 | 9 | 6 | 939 | 33 | 3 | 2.11 | .932 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" align="center" | NHL totals ! 76 ! 41 ! 33 ! 4,515 ! 202 ! 9 ! 2.68 ! .909 |}

Career highlights

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Named to 1992 NHL All-Star team

Named to 1994 NHL All-Star team - Awarded Most Valuable Player

Won 1994 Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers

Won gold medal at 1996 World Cup of Hockey - Awarded Most Valuable Player

Named to 2000 NHL All-Star team

Won silver medal at 2002 Winter Olympics

Enshrined into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

Received the 2009 Lester Patrick Award alongside Mark Messier and Jim Devellano.

Ranked No. 3 on the all-time list of New York Rangers in the book 100 Ranger Greats (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).

Records

NHL Record, Wins, Single Postseason: T-1st: 16 (1993-94)

NYR Club Record, Games Played, Career: 666

NYR Club Record, Wins, Career: 301

NYR Club Record, Games Played, Single Season: 72 (1997–98)

NYR Club Record, Wins, Single Season: 42 (1993–94)

NYR Club Record, Save Percentage, Single Season: .917 (1996–97)

NY Rangers team awards

Crumb Bum Award - "For service to New York youngsters" (1997)

Frank Boucher Trophy - "Most popular player on and off the ice" (1991, 1999, 2000, 2002)

Good Guy Award - "For cooperation with the media" (1991)

Lars-Erik Sjoberg Award - "Best rookie of training camp" (1991)

Player's Player Award (1991, 2000)

Team Rookie of the Year (1991)

Team MVP (2000, 2002)

References

External links

Mike's U.S. Olympic Team bio

hockeygoalies.org bio

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Name	David Remnick
Birth date	October 29, 1958
Birth place	Hackensack, New Jersey
Occupation	Magazine Editorjournalistwritereditor
Gender	Male
Title	Editor-in-chief, U.S. New Yorker

David Remnick (born October 29, 1958) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. As a reporter for the Washington Post, he also served as the paper's Moscow correspondent. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book . He has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He has edited several collections of writings from The New Yorker and in 1999, he was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age. Mr. Remnick is also on the New York Public Library's board of trustees.

Early life and family

Remnick was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the son of a dentist and an art teacher. He was raised in Hillsdale, New Jersey, in a secular Jewish home with, he has said, "a lot of books around." He is also childhood friends with comedian Bill Maher. He graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in comparative literature in 1981; there, he met writer John McPhee and helped found The Nassau Weekly. He is married to New York Times reporter Esther Fein and has three children, Alex, Noah, and Natasha. He enjoys jazz music and classic cinema and is fluent in Russian.

Career at The Washington Post

He began at The Washington Post in 1982 shortly after his graduation from Princeton. His first assignment was in sports where he covered the United States Football League. After six years, in 1988, he became the newspaper's Moscow correspondent, which provided him with the material for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, . He also received the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.

Career at The New Yorker

Remnick became a staff writer at The New Yorker in September, 1992, after ten years at The Washington Post.

Remnick's 1997 New Yorker article "Kid Dynamite Blows Up," about boxer Mike Tyson, won a National Magazine Award.

In 2003, he wrote an editorial supporting the Iraq war in the days when it started. In 2004, for the first time in its 80-year history, The New Yorker endorsed a presidential candidate, John Kerry.

On May 8, 2006, Remnick gave an interview on The Daily Show to promote his book Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker.

In May 2009 Remnick was featured in a long-form Twitter account of Dan Baum's career as a New Yorker staff writer. The tweets, written over the course of a week, described the difficult relationship between Baum and Remnick, his editor.

Remnick's biography of President Barack Obama, The Bridge, was released on April 6, 2010. It features hundreds of interviews with friends, colleagues and other witnesses to Obama's rise to the presidency of the United States. His efforts to promote his book started with an interview on The Daily Show on April 8, 2010, and it has been widely reviewed in journals.

Remnick lent his support to the campaign to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of committing adultery.

Works

New York: Random House, 1993.

The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories. New York: Random House, 1996.

Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia. New York: Random House, 1997.

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. New York: Random House, 1998.

Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker. New York: Knopf, 2006.

. New York: Knopf, 2010.

Books edited

Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker (with Susan Choi, eds.), 2000.

The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence. New York: Random House, 2000.

Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker. New York: Random House, 2000.

Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker (with Henry Finder, eds.). New York: Random House, 2001.

Articles

References

External links

Booknotes interview with Remnick on Lenin's Tomb, July 25, 1993.

Interview in The Guardian, Sept. 10, 2006

"How to put a legendary magazine back on its feet" Haaretz, Feb. 9, 2006

David Remnick interview with Big Think

September, 2000 interview

interview list

interview in British magazine New Statesman

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Name	Corey Pavin
Fullname	Corey Allen Pavin
Nickname	Bulldog
Birth date	November 16, 1959
Birth place	Oxnard, California
Death date
Height
Weight
Nationality
College	UCLA
Yearpro	1982
Retired
Tour	PGA Tour (joined 1984)Champions Tour (joined 2010)
Extour
Prowins	27
Pgawins	15
Eurowins	1
Japwins	2
Asiawins
Sunwins
Auswins	2
Champwins
Seneurowins
Otherwins
Majorwins	1
Masters	3rd: 1992
Usopen	Won: 1995
Open	T4: 1993
Pga	2nd: 1994
Wghofid
Wghofyear
Award1	PGA Tour leading money winner
Year1	1991
Award2	PGA Player of the Year
Year2	1991
Awardssection

Corey Allen Pavin (born November 16, 1959) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. He spent over 150 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1986 and 1997.

Pavin was born in Oxnard, California. He attended UCLA and turned professional in 1982. He quickly established himself in the sport, with three international victories in 1983, and his first PGA Tour victory at the 1984 Houston Coca-Cola Open. He won at least one event on either the PGA Tour or the international tour nearly every year for the next decade, and topped the PGA's money list in 1991, when he was the last man to achieve this without winning at least one million dollars in prize money. Pavin's success culminated in his only major victory, the 1995 U.S. Open. Rather than marking a move to a new level of achievement, however, this was soon followed by a long slide down the world rankings from a high ranking of 5th. After Pavin won the Colonial in 1996, he did not win another PGA tournament for ten years. His 89th place finish on the 2004 money list was the first time he had made the top one hundred since 1998. Pavin finally won his fifteenth career title in 2006 at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee, ending a streak of 242 consecutive tournaments without a win.

Pavin played on three Ryder Cup teams: 1991, 1993, and 1995.

In 2002 he was named to the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame.

On July 27, 2006, during the first round of what would become his fifteenth tour title, Pavin broke the record for the fewest number of strokes needed to complete nine holes at a PGA Tour event, with an 8-under par score of 26. The previous record of 27 strokes was held by Mike Souchak, Andy North, Billy Mayfair and Robert Gamez, with Mayfair and Gamez' scores being 9-under par. His 36-hole total of 125 also tied the record for fewest shots taken in the first 36 holes of a PGA Tour event held by Tom Lehman, Mark Calcavecchia, and Tiger Woods.

In December 2008, Pavin was named captain for the 2010 Ryder Cup U.S. team by the PGA of America. In October 2010, the U.S. Ryder Cup team lost 13½ to 14½, against the European side.

Pavin began playing on the Champions Tour in 2010. In June 2010, he lost in a sudden death playoff to Bubba Watson at the Travelers Championship on the PGA Tour.

Amateur wins (1)

1981 North and South Amateur

Professional wins (27)

PGA Tour wins (15)

European Tour wins (1)

1983 Lufthansa German Open

Japan Golf Tour wins (2)

1985 ABC Cup (tie with Tateo "Jet" Ozaki in individual event)

1994 Tokai Classic

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

1984 New Zealand Open

1985 New Zealand Open

Other wins (7)

1983 South African PGA Championship, Calberson Classic (Europe - not a European Tour event)

1993 Toyota World Match Play Championship (Europe - then an unofficial event).

1995 Asian Masters, Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa - unofficial event)

1996 Ssang Yong International Challenge (South Korea)

1999 Martel Skins Game (Taiwan)

Major championships

Wins (1)

{|class="wikitable" !Year!!Championship!!54 Holes!!Winning Score!!Margin!!Runner-up |-bgcolor="#FBCEB1" | 1995 ||U.S. Open ||3 shot deficit ||E (72-69-71-68=280) ||2 strokes || Greg Norman |}

Results timeline

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United States national team appearances

Amateur

Walker Cup: 1981 (winners)

Professional

USA vs. Japan: 1982

Nissan Cup: 1985

Ryder Cup: 1991 (winners), 1993 (winners), 1995, 2010 (captain)

Presidents Cup: 1994 (winners), 1996 (winners)

See also

Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

References

External links

Profile on the PGA Tour's site

Results in ranking events for the last two years from the Official World Golf Ranking site

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