Curtis Strange

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Curtis Strange

Personal Information
Birth	January 30, 1955 (1955-01-30) (age 53) Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.91 m)
Weight	180 lb (91 kg)
Nationality	United States
College	Wake Forest University
Career
Turned Pro	1976
Current tour	Champions Tour
Professional wins	26 (PGA Tour: 17, other: 9)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 2
Masters	T2: 1985
U.S. Open	Won 1988, 1989
British Open	T13: 1988
PGA Championship	T2: 1989
Awards
PGA Player of the Year	1988
World Golf Hall of Fame	2007

Curtis Northrup Strange (born January 30, 1955) is an American professional golfer. He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. He spent over 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between their debut in 1986 and 1990.^[1]

[edit] College

Strange was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a graduate of Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Strange attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team with Jay Haas and Bob Byman that Golf World has labeled "the greatest of all time".^[2]

[edit] PGA Tour career

Strange is considered one of the leading golfers of the 1980s as 16 of his 17 PGA Tour victories took place in that decade. He topped the PGA Tour money list in 1985 and 1987 and in 1988, when he became the first man to win a million dollars in official money on the Tour in a season. His two majors were the 1988 and 1989 U.S. Opens.

[edit] Aftermath

At this point it seemed that Strange was on the verge of building a truly great career, but oddly he never won on the PGA Tour again after his 2nd U.S. Open victory. He played on five Ryder Cup teams (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, and 1995) and captained the team in 2002. After reaching the age of 50 in January 2005, Strange began play on the Champions Tour, remarking, "I was getting worse and said, 'To hell with it.'"^[3] His best finishes thus far are a 3rd place finish in the 2005 Constellation Energy Classic and a T-5 in the 2005 FedEx Kinko's Classic. On April 18, 2007, Strange was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, and was inducted on November 12, 2007 at the World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Florida.

[edit] Amateur wins (5)

• 1974 Western Amateur, North and South Amateur, NCAA Division I Championship
• 1975 North and South Amateur, Eastern Amateur

[edit] PGA Tour wins (17)

• 1979 (1) Pensacola Open
• 1980 (2) Michelob-Houston Open, Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic
• 1983 (1) Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open
• 1984 (1) LaJet Golf Classic
• 1985 (3) Honda Classic, Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational, Canadian Open
• 1986 (1) Houston Open
• 1987 (3) Canadian Open, Federal Express St. Jude Classic, NEC World Series of Golf
• 1988 (4) Independent Insurance Agent Open, Memorial Tournament, U.S. Open, Nabisco Championship
• 1989 (1) U.S. Open

Major championships are shown in bold.

[edit] Other wins (9)

• 1981 Panama Open
• 1986 ABC Cup (Japan Golf Tour)
• 1988 Sanctuary Cove Classic (Australia)
• 1989 Palm Meadows Cup (Australia), RMCC Invitational (with Mark O'Meara), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event), Skins Game
• 1990 Skins Game
• 1993 Greg Norman's Holden Classic (Australia)

[edit] Major Championships

[edit] Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runner(s) Up
1988	U.S. Open	-6 (70-67-69-72-71=278)	Playoff1	Nick Faldo
1989	U.S. Open (2)	-2 (71-64-73-70=278)	1 stroke	Chip Beck, Mark McCumber, Ian Woosnam

¹Defeated Nick Faldo 71 to 75 in a 18 hole playoff.

[edit] Results timeline

LA = Low Amateur
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] See also

• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile on the PGA Tour's official site
• World Golf Hall of Fame profile