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SECTION 2 PLAYER BIOGRAPHIES<br />
2-24<br />
Surpassed $600,000 in season earnings with victory at<br />
Showdown Classic in Utah…Trio of second places were<br />
among 17 top-10 finishes. 1990: Beat Gary Player in a<br />
playoff for Bell Atlantic title and also teamed with Charles<br />
Coody for first of three wins at unofficial Liberty Mutual<br />
Legends of Golf. 1988: Victorious at GTE Suncoast Senior<br />
Classic, leading event from start to finish. 1986: Had<br />
banner rookie year, finishing third on the money list and<br />
garnering four wins, including U.S. Senior Open at Scioto<br />
CC by one stroke over Gary Player…Was the leader or coleader<br />
in eight of his first 10 rounds on the Champions<br />
Tour, including seven straight. Of those seven, he held sole<br />
possession of the lead in six which was instrumental in<br />
back-to-back wins at The Vintage Invitational and the<br />
Johnny Mathis Seniors Classic. Streak could have been<br />
more impressive but, after finishing tied with Charles<br />
Owens at the Del E. Webb SENIOR <strong>PGA</strong> <strong>TOUR</strong> Roundup in<br />
his first start, he lost in a playoff.<br />
JOINED CHAMPIONS <strong>TOUR</strong>: 1998<br />
CHAMPIONS <strong>TOUR</strong> VICTORIES (10): 1999<br />
ACE Group Classic, <strong>PGA</strong> Seniors' Championship,<br />
Cadillac NFL Golf Classic, TD Waterhouse<br />
Championship. 2000 Toshiba Senior Classic. 2001 Ford<br />
Senior Players Championship, State Farm Senior<br />
Classic. 2003 FleetBoston Classic. 2004 Bayer<br />
Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am. 2005 U.S. Senior Open.<br />
OTHER SENIOR VICTORIES (2): 1999 Senior<br />
Slam. 2001 Senior Slam.<br />
2005 CHARLES SCHWAB CUP FINISH:<br />
10th - 1,410 points<br />
BEST <strong>PGA</strong> <strong>TOUR</strong> CAREER FINISH: T7—1998<br />
Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic.<br />
OTHER VICTORIES (19): 1978 Georgia State<br />
Amateur. 1979 Georgia State Amateur. 1982 Georgia<br />
State Mid-Amateur Championship, Georgia State Four-<br />
Ball Tournament. 1986 Georgia State Four-Ball<br />
Tournament. 1987 Georgia State Amateur, Georgia State<br />
Mid-Amateur Championship, Georgia State Four-Ball<br />
Tournament. 1988 Georgia State Amateur, Georgia State<br />
Mid-Amateur Championship, Georgia State Four-Ball<br />
Tournament. 1989 Georgia State Four-Ball Tournament.<br />
1990 Georgia State Mid-Amateur Championship, Georgia<br />
State Four-Ball Tournament. 1994 Porter Cup, Sunnehanna<br />
Amateur, Cardinal Amateur, Dogwood Amateur, Rice<br />
Planters Invitational.<br />
Dale Douglass (Continued)<br />
OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:<br />
Joined the <strong>PGA</strong> <strong>TOUR</strong> in 1963, but his first official win did<br />
not come until the 1969 Azalea Open…Captured the<br />
Kemper Open that same season and went on to finish 12th<br />
on the official money list with $91,553, his best <strong>TOUR</strong><br />
year…Won the 1970 Phoenix Open by one stroke over<br />
Gene Littler and Howie Johnson…Play was curtailed by<br />
assorted injuries throughout the '70s…Member of the<br />
1969 United States Ryder Cup team…Has made 18 career<br />
holes-in-one.<br />
PERSONAL:<br />
Tournament Policy Board Player Director 1971-72…Vice<br />
President of the <strong>PGA</strong> in 1972…Served on the Champions<br />
Tour Division Board as a Player Director from 1990-94 and<br />
again in 1996-97.<br />
SEE SECTION 6 FOR COMPLETE <strong>PGA</strong> <strong>TOUR</strong> SUMMARY<br />
Allen Doyle<br />
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 30 on 2005 Champions Tour<br />
Money List<br />
FULL NAME: Allen Michael Doyle<br />
HEIGHT: 6-3<br />
WEIGHT: 210<br />
BIRTHDATE: July 26, 1948<br />
BIRTHPLACE: Woonsocket, RI<br />
RESIDENCE: La Grange, GA<br />
NATIONWIDE <strong>TOUR</strong> VICTORIES (3): 1995<br />
Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic, Texarkana Open, Tour<br />
Championship.<br />
<strong>PGA</strong> <strong>TOUR</strong> CAREER EARNINGS: $245,923<br />
BEST 2005 CHAMPIONS <strong>TOUR</strong> FINISHES:<br />
1—U.S. Senior Open; T3—Turtle Bay Championship;<br />
T5—Ford Senior Players Championship; T6—Senior <strong>PGA</strong><br />
Championship.<br />
2005 SEASON:<br />
Missed out on the million-dollar mark in earnings for the<br />
first time since playing the Champions Tour on a full-time<br />
basis, partly due to arthroscopic left-knee surgery on<br />
September 27 that curtailed his season…Was among the<br />
top six in four events, with three of those performances<br />
coming in the four major events he appeared in…Won his<br />
third different major at the U.S. Senior Open, coming from<br />
nine strokes back in the final round, the second-biggest<br />
comeback in any major championship (Paul Lawrie/10<br />
strokes/1999 British Open) and made up the secondlargest<br />
deficit in Champions Tour history (Jay Sigel/10<br />
strokes/1994 GTE West Classic). Bypassed 15 players on<br />
Sunday with a South Course-record 8-under 63 at NCR CC,<br />
tying his career-low score and Don Pooley's mark<br />
(2002/third round) for the lowest round ever posted in U.S.<br />
Senior Open history…Round also was the lowest by a<br />
winner on the Champions Tour last year. Victory at NCR<br />
was his 10th overall title on the Champions Tour and came<br />
just five days after turning 57, making him the secondoldest<br />
winner in U.S. Senior Open annals (Robert De<br />
Champions Tour 2006 Guide<br />
PLAYER STATISTICS<br />
2005 CHAMPIONS <strong>TOUR</strong> STATISTICS:<br />
Scoring Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74.18 (77)<br />
Driving Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256.4 (75)<br />
Driving Accuracy Percentage . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67.3% (55)<br />
Greens in Regulation Pct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59.3% (77)<br />
Putting Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.842 (73)<br />
MISCELLANEOUS CHAMPIONS <strong>TOUR</strong> STATISTICS<br />
2005 Low Round: 66–Commerce Bank Championship/2<br />
Career Low Round: 61–1994 Ralphs Senior Classic/3<br />
Career Largest Paycheck: $135,000–1996 Bell Atlantic<br />
Classic/1<br />
MISCELLANEOUS <strong>PGA</strong> <strong>TOUR</strong> STATISTICS<br />
Career Low Round: 63–4 times, most recent 1973 Phoenix<br />
Open/1<br />
Career Largest Paycheck: $30,000–1969 Kemper Open/1<br />
FAMILY: Wife, Kate; Erin (8/22/79), Michelle (10/26/80)<br />
EDUCATION: Norwich University<br />
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Family<br />
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1995<br />
JOINED <strong>PGA</strong> <strong>TOUR</strong>: 1996<br />
Vicenzo/57 years, 2 months, 15 days in 1980). His<br />
$470,000 first-place check was the largest of his career<br />
and accounted for over half his official money last<br />
year…T5 at the Ford Senior Players Championship just<br />
prior to his U.S. Senior Open triumph. Opened with a 2over<br />
74 in Dearborn, but bounced back with three straight<br />
rounds in the 60s on the TPC of Michigan layout…Also T6<br />
in late May at the Senior <strong>PGA</strong> Championship at Laurel<br />
Valley and extended his streak of years among the top 20<br />
in that event to seven…T3 near the start of the season at<br />
the Turtle Bay Championship.<br />
CHAMPIONS <strong>TOUR</strong> CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:<br />
2004: Won for the second time near Kansas City when he<br />
claimed the rain-shortened Bayer Advantage Celebrity<br />
Pro-Am by a stroke over Jerry Pate. Made a short birdie<br />
putt on the 18th hole Saturday to give himself a one-stroke<br />
cushion over Pate and then was declared the winner when<br />
Sunday's final round was canceled due to course damage<br />
from overnight storms Saturday…Was among a handful<br />
of players who battled it out in Sunday's final round at the<br />
JELD-WEN Tradition in late August. Trailed by one stroke<br />
heading into Sunday's final round and remained in<br />
contention throughout the round but failed to birdie one of<br />
his final two holes to finish T2, one stroke behind Craig<br />
Stadler…Champions Tour Player of the Month for June.<br />
2003: Back among the top 10 on the money list after a<br />
year's absence, thanks to 13 top-10 finishes…Tied with<br />
Tom Jenkins for the most sub-par rounds on the<br />
Champions Tour with 64…Won for the first time in just<br />
over two years when he prevailed at the FleetBoston<br />
Classic. The native of nearby Norwood, MA, broke the 18-<br />
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