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CHAMPIONS TOUR CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
2004: Competition was limited to 12 events, at the time, the
fewest he had ever played in a season…Bothered by a nerve
problem in his lower back and did not play after mid-July.
Withdrew from the Bank of America Championship during
the second round and then was forced to withdraw from the
Ford Senior Players Championship after an opening-round 77,
even though he played as a marker for Dana Quigley in the
second round…His T11 at the Bruno's Memorial Classic near
Birmingham was his best performance on the Champions
Tour since T9 at the 2002 Napa Valley Championship. His 4under
68 in the opening round at Greystone was his best
since shooting 65 on Saturday at 2003 Long Island
Classic…Co-honoree at the Memorial Tournament with
prominent women's amateur golfer Joyce Wethered…Also
was honored by Northern Ohio Charities with the 2004
Ambassador of Golf Award, which he received at the World
Golf Championships-NEC Invitational. 2003: Played in only 13
official events…Highlight of his year came early when he
captured the ConAgra Foods Champions Skins Game in
January. Defeated Hale Irwin with a birdie on the third extra
hole for his first victory in the unofficial event. Birdie was
worth $100,000 and helped push his earnings in the event to
$240,000, $40,000 more than Irwin’s total…Also teamed
with Mike Hill to finish T2, two strokes back of Gary
Koch/Roger Maltbie in the Raphael Division at the Liberty
Mutual Legends of Golf…Best finish was a T22 at the
MasterCard Championship at Hualalai…Finished second to
Mike Hill by one stroke in the Georgia-Pacific Grand
Champions competition at the Long Island Classic after carding
a second-round 65, his lowest score since posting a 65 on
Saturday at the 2000 FleetBoston Classic. 2002: Lone top-10
performance came late in the season with a T9 at the Napa
Valley Championship, thanks to a pair of 3-under 69s on the
weekend. 2001: Earned a $1-million prize when he made a
hole-in-one at the Par-3 Challenge at Treetops Resort in
Michigan. 2000: Ended a victory drought of more than two
years when he prevailed by two strokes over Walter Hall at
the Cadillac NFL Golf Classic in New Jersey. Became just the
second player to win in five different decades (Gary Player is
the other). Victory at Upper Montclair CC made him, at the
time, the seventh-oldest player to win a Champions Tour
event…Finished third on the Georgia-Pacific Grand
Champions money list and picked up his only win in the over-
60 competition at the Gold Rush Classic. Defeated Chi Chi
Rodriguez and Rocky Thompson by three strokes at Serrano
for the Georgia-Pacific crown…Made his second hole-in-one
on the Champions Tour at the Nationwide
Championship…Made one final appearance at the British
Open, but failed to make the cut at St. Andrews. 1999: Best
finish was a third at Cadillac NFL Golf Classic. 1998: Claimed
his third Southwestern Bell Dominion title, a two-stroke win
over Mike McCullough. Victory in San Antonio was his seventh
overall title in his native state. 1997: Posted two runnerup
finishes at The Home Depot Invitational and Burnet Senior
Classic. 1996: Emerged victorious from a record five-man
playoff at the Emerald Coast Classic. Holed a 35-foot birdie
putt on the first extra hole to nip Mike Hill, Dave Stockton,
David Graham and Bob Eastwood…Teamed with Mike Hill to
win a fourth Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf title. 1995:
Captured an unprecedented third Liberty Mutual Legends of
Golf title with Mike Hill…Became the Champions Tour’s all-
CHAMPIONS TOUR CAREER SUMMARY PLAYOFF RECORD: 3-3
Year Events Played 1st 2nd 3rd Top 10 Top 25 Earnings Rank
1989 1 1 1 9,258 93
1990 28 7 8 1 26 28 1,190,518 1
1991 28 3 4 4 20 25 723,163 5
1992 27 5 3 1 21 26 1,027,002 1
1993 25 3 3 1 14 20 956,591 4
1994 23 6 1 3 15 21 1,202,369 4
1995 29 2 3 1 17 26 943,993 7
1996 28 1 2 11 17 662,753 16
1997 27 2 10 19 733,912 15
1998 27 1 1 1 7 14 716,366 18
1999 25 1 5 15 500,103 39
2000 25 1 1 3 12 545,186 34
2001 17 2 5 215,426 70
2002 17 1 4 189,762 75
2003 13 1 71,559 96
2004 12 1 70,810 90
2005 7 20,179 121
Total 359 29 26 15 153 235 9,778,951
COMBINED ALL-TIME MONEY (3 TOURS): $13,257,279
Lee Trevino (Continued)
time victory leader at the time when he successfully defended
his Northville Long Island Classic title, the 25th win of his
Champions Tour career…Also became the first two-time
winner of The Transamerica. 1994: Notched six victories
before August and was chosen by his peers as the
Champions Tour Player of the Year for a third time…Earnings
of $1,202,369 were the most of his illustrious career for a single
season…Caught Miller Barber on the all-time victory list
when he triumphed at the Northville Long Island
Classic…Also benefited from a late collapse by Raymond
Floyd for his second PGA Seniors’ Championship…Played
hurt for the majority of the summer with a bulging disc in his
neck, and underwent surgery in October. 1993: Won three
times, despite not starting the season until the last week of
March due to surgery for ligament damage near his left
thumb. Won the Cadillac NFL Golf Classic in his seventh start
of the year, then claimed back-to-back events at the
Nationwide and Vantage Championships. 1992: Secured his
second Arnold Palmer Award after becoming the first golfer
to earn over $1 million in a season twice…Easily garnered
Player of the Year honors, as well, on the strength of five official
victories…Claimed three straight titles in the spring: The
Tradition, PGA Seniors’ Championship and Las Vegas Senior
Classic…Also teamed with Mike Hill to win a second consecutive
Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf crown…Earned his
third straight Byron Nelson Award with a 69.46 scoring average.
1991: Won three times…Defended his title at the Aetna
Challenge, nipping Dale Douglass with a birdie at the final
hole…Triumphed at the Vantage at The Dominion when he
eagled the final hole…Cruised to a four-stroke victory at the
Sunwest Bank/Charley Pride Senior Classic in New
Mexico…Teamed with Mike Hill to win the Liberty Mutual
Legends of Golf…Earned a second consecutive Byron Nelson
Award with a scoring average of 69.50. 1990: Was the leading
money-winner in all of golf and became the first
Champions Tour player to earn over $1 million in single-season
earnings…Easily took home the Arnold Palmer Award,
as well as Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors…His
seven victories, a personal best for one season,
were the second highest total in a year at the time…Won
three of his first four starts, including the Royal Caribbean
Classic, his first, where he made up seven strokes over the
last nine holes to defeat Jim Dent…Shot 67 on the final day
at Ridgewood CC to beat Jack Nicklaus for the U.S. Senior
Open title…Posted back-to-back wire-to-wire wins at the
Aetna Challenge and The Vintage Chrysler
Invitational…Finished out of the top 10 only twice all year
and won the Byron Nelson Award with a stroke average of
68.89, the lowest in Champions Tour history until Hale Irwin’s
68.59 in 1998. 1989: Joined the Champions Tour at the last
official money event of the year, the GTE Kaanapali Classic.
Carded back-to-back 69s at that rain-shortened event and finished
T7.
OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Won 29 times on the PGA TOUR and is ranked T17 on the alltime
victory list…Voted PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year in
1967…Was the leading money-winner in 1970 with
$157,037 and was voted as the Player of the Year in
1971…Made his debut at the 1966 U.S. Open, but first got
national attention the next year at Baltusrol when he finished
fifth and made $6,000…Gained headlines with his
first TOUR win at the 1968 U.S. Open at Oak Hill CC, becom-
PGATOUR.com Champions Tour 2006 Guide
CHAMPIONS TOUR MAJOR TOURNAMENT SUMMARY
Year 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02
Senior PGA Championship T3 11 1 T23 1 T2 T22 T27 CUT T15 WD T59
Ford Senior Players 2 T8 T2 T40 T3 T30 T8 T19 8 T12 T36 T65
U.S. Senior Open 1 T4 T18 9 11 7 T15 T31
JELD-WEN Tradition T24 T33 1 13 T21 T20 T37 T25
Year 03 04
Ford Senior Players WD
ing the first player in Open history to play all four rounds
under par and in the 60s…Won the Open again in 1971,
defeating Jack Nicklaus in an 18-hole playoff at
Merion…Won back-to-back British Open titles in 1971 and
1972…Collected a record fifth Vardon Trophy in 1980 with a
scoring average of 69.73, the lowest since Sam Snead’s
69.23 in 1950…Won a second PGA Championship in 1984
at Shoal Creek in Birmingham, AL at the age of 44. Ended a
three-plus-year victory drought with that title, outlasting
Gary Player and Lanny Wadkins down the stretch…Member
of six American Ryder Cup teams and was captain of the
1985 squad…Teamed with Orville Moody to win the 1969
World Cup for the United States, and joined Nicklaus for
another World Cup title in 1971…Hampered throughout his
career by back problems and underwent surgery for a herniated
disc in November of 1976…Struck by lightning, along
with Bobby Nichols and Jerry Heard, at the 1975 Western
Open…Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in
1981…The Sporting News Man of the Year in 1971…Won
the Ben Hogan Award from the Golf Writers Association of
America in 1980.
PERSONAL:
Entirely self-taught and, as a youth, became the protege of
Hardy Greenwood, owner of Hardy’s Driving Range in
Dallas…Was raised next door to the Glen Lakes CC in
Dallas where he got started in the game…Served in the
Marine Corps for four years from the age of 17 to
21…Became a golf professional in 1960 and got his first job
working as an assistant professional in El Paso,
TX…Between PGA TOUR and Champions Tour, served a
stint as golf analyst for NBC…Favorite courses are Pine
Valley, Oak Hill and Cypress Point…Favorite entertainer is
Alan King and also enjoys George Lopez…Other favorites
include Chariots of Fire, Michael Jordan and steak…Biggest
thrill was winning the 1971 U.S. Open…Enjoys spending
time with his family…One of his superstitions is not using a
yellow tee.
PLAYER STATISTICS
2005 CHAMPIONS TOUR STATISTICS:
Scoring Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75.52 (N/A)
Driving Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248.7 (N/A)
Driving Accuracy Percentage . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71.4% (N/A)
Greens in Regulation Pct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56.9% (N/A)
Putting Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.902 (N/A)
MISCELLANEOUS CHAMPIONS TOUR STATISTICS
2005 Low Round: 69–MasterCard Championship/2
Career Low Round: 63–1991 First Development Kaanapali
Classic/2
Career Largest Paycheck: $225,000–1993 Vantage
Championship/1
MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS
Career Low Round: 64–12 times, most recent 1989 Canon
Greater Hartford Open/2
Career Largest Paycheck: $125,000–1984 PGA
Championship/1
SEE SECTION 6 FOR COMPLETE PGA TOUR SUMMARY
SECTION 2 PLAYER BIOGRAPHIES
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