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==Professional wins (87)==
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===PGA Tour wins (20)===
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Hale Irwin
Personal information
Full nameHale S. Irwin
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Sporting nationality United States
Career
CollegeUniversity of Colorado
Turned professional1968
Current tour(s)PGA Tour
Champions Tour
Professional wins87
Highest ranking7 (May 19, 1991)[1]
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour20
PGA Tour Champions45 (1st all time)
Other10 (regular)
12 (senior)
Best results in major championships
(wins: 3)
Masters TournamentT4: 1974, 1975
PGA ChampionshipT5: 1975
U.S. OpenWon: 1974, 1979, 1990
The Open ChampionshipT2: 1983
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame1992 (member page)
Champions Tour
leading money winner		1997, 1998, 2002
Champions Tour
Player of the Year		1997, 1998, 2002
Champions Tour
Rookie of the Year		1995
Byron Nelson Award
(Champions Tour)		1996, 1997, 1998, 2002

Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few players in history to have won three U.S. Opens and was one of the world's leading golfers for much of the 1970s and 1980s. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.

Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri, but was raised in Baxter Springs, KS, located in Cherokee County. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1967, where he was a two-time All-Big Eight defensive back, as well as an academic All-American in football. He won the individual NCAA Division I Championship in golf in 1967 and turned professional the following year.

Irwin had 20 victories on the PGA Tour beginning with the 1971 Sea Pines Heritage Classic and finishing with the 1994 MCI Heritage Golf Classic, and won prize money of just under six million dollars. His 1994 Heritage win at the age of nearly 49 made him one of the oldest winners in Tour history. He also won two Piccadilly World Match Play Championships at Wentworth in the 1970s. His successes kept him ranked high among his peers - he was ranked among the top five in McCormack's World Golf Rankings in every year from 1975 to 1979, inclusive. He ranked in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for a few weeks in 1991.[2]

Irwin played on five Ryder Cup teams: 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, and 1991.

Irwin's first U.S. Open triumph came at Winged Foot in 1974, and he added a second in 1979. The next month, he came to the final round of the The Open Championship with a two-shot lead, but was thwarted in his attempt at an historic double by the incredible recovery play of Severiano Ballesteros. In 1983, Irwin had another close tilt at the Open, but lost by a shot, having called a penalty on himself in an early round for casually taking an "air shot" over a short putt. He was rarely on leaderboards from then for most of the rest of the 1980s, but enjoyed an incredible swansong in 1990, capped by his third U.S. Open victory, which came in a playoff against Mike Donald which Irwin had only joined after holing an improbable 45-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole.

Irwin qualified to play on the over-50 Champions Tour (formerly the Senior PGA Tour) in 1995 and has enjoyed even greater success at this level than he did on the PGA Tour. He has won 45 Champions Tour titles and tops the all-time Champions Tour money list with earnings of over USD $23 million. He was the winner of the U.S. Senior Open in 1998 and 2000.

Irwin was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1992.

In 2000, Irwin was ranked as the 19th greatest golfer of all time by Golf Digest magazine.[3]

Irwin is the uncle of Heath Irwin.

Amateur wins (1)

Professional wins (87)

PGA Tour wins (20)

No. Date Tournament Winning Score Margin of Victory Runner(s)-up
1 Nov 28, 1971 Sea Pines Heritage Classic -5 (68-73-68-70=279) 1 stroke United States Bob Lunn
2 Sep 16, 1973 Sea Pines Heritage Classic -12 (69-66-65-72=272) 5 strokes United States Jerry Heard, United States Grier Jones
3 Jun 16, 1974 U.S. Open +7 (73-70-71-73=287) 2 strokes United States Forrest Fezler
4 Jun. 1, 1975 Atlanta Classic -17 (66-69-68-68=271) 4 strokes United States Tom Watson
5 Jun 29, 1975 Western Open -1 (71-68-71-73=283) 1 stroke South Africa Bobby Cole
6 Feb 22, 1976 Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open -12 (69-69-66-68=272) 2 strokes United States Tom Watson
7 Mar 7, 1976 Florida Citrus Open -18 (74-66-64-66=270) Playoff United States Kermit Zarley
8 May 29, 1977 Atlanta Classic -15 (70-70-66-67=273) 1 stroke United States Steve Veriato
9 Aug 28, 1977 Colgate Hall of Fame Golf Classic -20 (65-62-69-68=264) 5 strokes United States Leonard Thompson
10 Oct 16, 1977 San Antonio Texas Open -14 (68-67-64-67=266) 2 strokes United States Miller Barber
11 Jun 17, 1979 U.S. Open Even (74-68-67-75=284) 2 strokes United States Jerry Pate, South Africa Gary Player
12 Feb 14, 1981 Hawaiian Open -23 (68-66-62-69=265) 6 strokes United States Don January
13 Aug 23, 1981 Buick Open -11 (65-73-67-72=277) Playoff United States Bobby Clampett, United States Peter Jacobsen,
United States Gil Morgan
14 Mar 14, 1982 Honda Inverrary Classic -19 (65-71-67-66=269) 1 stroke United States George Burns, United States Tom Kite
15 May 29, 1983 Memorial Tournament -7 (71-71-70-69=281) 1 stroke United States Ben Crenshaw, Australia David Graham
16 Feb 5, 1984 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am -10 (69-69-68-72=278) Playoff Canada Jim Nelford
17 May 26, 1985 Memorial Tournament -14 (72-67-68-67=274) 1 stroke United States Lanny Wadkins
18 Jun 18, 1990 U.S. Open -8 (69-70-74-67=280) Playoff United States Mike Donald
19 Jun 24, 1990 Buick Classic -15 (66-69-68-66=269) 2 strokes United States Paul Azinger
20 Apr 17, 1994 MCI Heritage Golf Classic -18 (68-65-65-68=266) 1 stroke Australia Greg Norman

Other wins (10)

Champions Tour wins (45)

Senior majors are shown in bold.

Other senior wins (12)

Major Championships

Wins (3)

Year Championship Winning Score Margin Runner(s)-up
1974 U.S. Open +7 (73-70-71-73=287) 2 strokes United States Forrest Fezler
1979 U.S. Open (2) E (74-68-67-75=284) 2 strokes United States Jerry Pate, South Africa Gary Player
1990 U.S. Open (3) -8 (69-70-74-67-74=280) Playoff1 United States Mike Donald

1Defeated Mike Donald with a birdie on the 19th hole after they were tied at 74 after an 18-hole playoff.

Results timeline

Tournament 1966 1967 1968 1969
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open T61 DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP
Tournament 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
The Masters DNP T13 CUT DNP T4 T4 T5 5 8 T23
U.S. Open DNP T19 T36 T20 1 T3 T26 T41 T4 1
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP T24 T9 T32 T46 T24 6
PGA Championship T31 T22 T11 T9 DNP T5 T34 T44 T12 CUT
Tournament 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
The Masters CUT T25 CUT T6 T21 T36 CUT DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open T8 T58 T39 T39 6 14 CUT CUT T17 T54
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP T2 T14 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship T30 T16 T42 T14 T25 T32 T26 DNP T38 DNP
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
The Masters DNP T10 T47 T27 T18 T14 T29 DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open 1 T11 T51 T62 T18 CUT T50 T52 CUT WD
The Open Championship T53 T57 T19 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship T12 T73 T66 T6 T39 T54 DNP T29 DNP T41
Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open T27 T52 CUT WD DNP
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT

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

This list may be incomplete.

Professional

See also

References

  1. ^ "Week 20 1991 Ending 19 May 1991" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  2. ^ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking
  3. ^ Yocom, Guy (2000). "50 Greatest Golfers of All Time: And What They Taught Us". Golf Digest. Retrieved 2007-12-05. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

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