David Duval

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David Duval

Personal Information
Birth: November 9, 1971,
Jacksonville, Florida
Height: 6' 0"
Nationality: Flag of United States United States
Residence: Denver, Colorado
Career
College: Georgia Tech
Turned Professional: 1993
Current Tour: PGA Tour (joined 1995)
Professional wins: 19 (PGA Tour 13; others 6)
Majors: British Open 2001
Awards: Byron Nelson Award 1998
Vardon Trophy 1998
PGA Tour Money Winner 1998

David Robert Duval (born November 9, 1971) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.

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[edit] Background and career

[edit] Amateur career

Duval was born in Jacksonville, Florida. The son of current Champions Tour player Bob Duval, he graduated from the Episcopal High School of Jacksonville. He was the U.S. Junior Amateur champion in 1989. He continued his amateur career at Georgia Tech, where he was a four-time All-American, two-time ACC Player of the Year, and 1993 National Player of the Year. After two years on the Nike Tour, he earned his PGA TOUR card in 1995.

[edit] Professional career

Success came quickly, as Duval qualified for the 1996 President's Cup and posted a 4-0-0 record. Between 1997 and 2001, he won 13 PGA TOUR tournaments, including the 1997 Tour Championship and the 1999 Players Championship, as well as the 2001 Dunlop Phoenix Open and the 2000 World Cup (with Tiger Woods) internationally. After Davis Love III won the 1997 PGA Championship and Duval finished the year with three straight victories, he held the dubious distinction of "the best player never to have won a major" until his victory in the 2001 Open Championship. He also tied for second in both the 1998 and 2001 Masters.

Other career highlights include achieving the number one spot in the Official World Golf Rankings in April 1999 and shooting a 59 in the final round of the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic on the Palmer Course at PGA West in La Quinta, California. Before 1999, only two other golfers in PGA TOUR history, Al Geiberger and Chip Beck, had posted a 59 in competition and no one had ever done so in a final round. He played on the 1999 and 2002 Ryder Cup teams.

After his Open Championship win, Duval entered a downward spiral in form that saw him drop to 80th on the money list in 2002, and 211th in 2003, prompting an extended break from the game. Numerous reasons have been postulated for the decline, including back, wrist, and shoulder problems; private difficulties; and a form of vertigo.

Many commentators believed Duval's career to be over, but he returned to golf in 2004 at the U.S. Open, where he shot 25 over par and missed the cut. David has struggled since his return with his highest result a T13 at the 2004 Deutsche Bank Championship (with, given the championship caliber of the field, his recent T-16 at the U.S. Open representing an excellent result). He made the cut in only one PGA Tour event in 2005, but did finish in the top ten at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan. While Duval at his peak was viewed as aloof and distant and was not a fan favorite, now galleries sympathize with his plight and root for him to overcome his issues and to experience golfing enjoyment.

Duval has had a successful start to the 2006 PGA TOUR season, making the cut in his first two tournaments, as well as a very respectable finish of T-16 at the U.S. Open Championship at Winged Foot Golf Club, where his second round 68 was good enough for a tie as the best round of the tournament. Despite not reaching the same heights in the remaining two majors of the year, his performances continued a general upward trend, with none of the rounds of 80+ that had become so familiar in the previous years.

[edit] Major Championships

[edit] Wins (1)

Year Championship 54 Holes Winning Score Margin of Victory Runners Up
2001 The Open Championship Tied for lead -10 (69-73-65-67=274) 3 strokes Sweden Niclas Fasth

[edit] Results timeline

Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T18 CUT T2 T6
U.S. Open T56 DNP CUT DNP DNP T28 T67 T48 T7 T7
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T20 T14 T33 T11 T62
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT T41 T13 CUT T10
Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
The Masters T3 2 CUT CUT DNP CUT CUT
U.S. Open T8 T16 CUT CUT CUT CUT T16
The Open Championship T11 1 T22 CUT DNP CUT T56
PGA Championship DNP T10 T34 WD CUT CUT 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

[edit] PGA Tour wins (13)

Major championship is shown in bold.

[edit] Other wins (6)

[edit] See also

[edit] External links


Official World Golf Rankings | World No. 1's in Men's Golf
Severiano Ballesteros | Fred Couples | David Duval | Ernie Els | Nick Faldo | Bernhard Langer | Tom Lehman | Greg Norman | Nick Price | Vijay Singh | Tiger Woods | Ian Woosnam
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