Steve Pate
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Robert Pate
Nickname	Volcano
Born	(1961-05-26) May 26, 1961 (age 51) Ventura, California
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg; 14 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Agoura Hills, California
Career
College	UCLA
Turned professional	1983
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour Nationwide Tour
Professional wins	8
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	6
Nationwide Tour	1
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	T3: 1991
U.S. Open	T3: 1988
The Open Championship	4th: 1992
PGA Championship	T7: 1991
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year	1999

Stephen Robert Pate (born May 26, 1961) is an American professional golfer who has played on both the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.

Pate was born in Ventura, California. He attended UCLA and was a member of the golf team; one teammate was Corey Pavin, who joined Pate on the PGA Tour. Pate helped lead the team to the 1983 Pac-10 Championship, and earned All-American honors that year. He turned pro and joined the PGA Tour later that year.

Pate has won six PGA Tour events. His first victory was at the 1987 Southwest Golf Classic; and his most recent win was at the 1998 CVS Charity Classic. His best years in professional golf were 1988 when he won twice and finished 12th on the money list; and 1991, when he had five top-3 finishes including a win at the Honda Classic, earned $727,997 and finished 6th on the money list.^[1] His best finish in a major is a T-3 at both the 1988 U.S. Open and the 1991 Masters.^[2] Pate has had more than 70 top-10 finishes in PGA Tour events. He has featured in the top-50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.

Pate was named the PGA Tour's Comeback Player of the Year in 1999. He was a member of the 1991 and 1999 Ryder Cup Team. As he entered his forties, he began to split his playing time between the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.^[3] He has one victory on the Nationwide Tour, the 2010 Pacific Rubiales Bogotá Open, which he won at age 48.

Pate will make his Champions Tour debut on May 26, 2011, his 50th birthday, in the Senior PGA Championship.^[4]

Pate lives in Agoura Hills, California. He acquired the nickname "Volcano" due to his temper.^[5] Pate has become involved in golf course design in recent years.

Professional wins (8)[link]

PGA Tour wins (6)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Sep 27, 1987	Southwest Golf Classic	-15 (67-71-68-67=273)	1 stroke	Mark O'Meara, Bob Eastwood, Dan Halldorson, David Edwards
2	Jan 17, 1988	MONY Tournament of Champions	-14 (66-66-70=202)	1 stroke	Larry Nelson
3	Feb 21, 1988	Shearson Lehman Hutton Andy Williams Open	-19 (68-66-67-68=269)	1 stroke	Jay Haas
4	Mar 15, 1991	Honda Classic	-9 (69-65-70-75=279)	3 strokes	Paul Azinger, Dan Halldorson
5	Feb 23, 1992	Buick Invitational of California	-16 (64-69-67=200)	1 stroke	Chip Beck
6	Jul 26, 1998	CVS Charity Classic	-15 (70-65-67-67=269)	1 stroke	Bradley Hughes, Scott Hoch

PGA Tour playoff record (0-3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1985	Georgia-Pacific Atlanta Golf Classic	Wayne Levi	Lost to birdie on second extra hole
2	1991	BellSouth Atlanta Golf Classic	Corey Pavin	Lost to par on second extra hole
3	1999	GTE Byron Nelson Classic	Loren Roberts	Lost to par on first extra hole

Nationwide Tour wins (1)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner-up
1	Mar 7, 2010	Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open	-11 (70-66-66-71=273)	Playoff	Aaron Watkins

Other wins (1)[link]

• 1998 JCPenney Classic (with Meg Mallon)

Results in major championships[link]

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

See also[link]

• 2003 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
• List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins

References[link]

External links[link]

• Steve Pate at the PGA Tour official site

v t e United States Ryder Cup team – 1991 Paul Azinger · Chip Beck · Mark Calcavecchia · Fred Couples · Raymond Floyd · Hale Irwin · Wayne Levi · Mark O'Meara · Steve Pate · Corey Pavin · Payne Stewart · Lanny Wadkins Dave Stockton (non-playing captain) Won: 14.5 – 13.5

v t e United States Ryder Cup team – 1999 David Duval · Jim Furyk · Tom Lehman · Justin Leonard · Davis Love III · Jeff Maggert · Phil Mickelson · Mark O'Meara · Steve Pate · Payne Stewart · Hal Sutton · Tiger Woods Ben Crenshaw (non-playing captain) Won: 14.5 – 13.5

Stephen Pate (born 25 January 1964 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an internationally competitive cyclist and former Olympian. After turning pro in 1986, Pate won three world pro medals and set as many world pro records for 200m, 500m, and 1 km. In 1991, he won a bronze medal at the World Professional Championship at Stuttgart. However, he and his fellow Australian Carey Hall later tested positive for steroids and were stripped of their medals.^[1][2]

In March 1998 there were allegations that selectors for the upcoming Olympiad, including Coach Charlie Walsh, the national coach for the Australian Cycling Federation at the Australian Institute of Sport, had been biased in favour of riders in the AIS squad. The selection procedure was questioned after Bradley McGee (a former AIS rider) was selected even though he did not attend the selection trial or ride the national championship, while Pate (not a member of the AIS squad), the then-current national madision champion, was not selected.^[3]

References[link]

1. ^ Cycling News, 2 May 1996
2. ^ The Independent, 3 September 1992
3. ^ Cycling News, 20 March 1998