Dave Stockton

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Dave Stockton

Personal Information
Birth	November 2, 1941 (1941-11-02) (age 66) San Bernardino, California, U.S.
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg)
Nationality	United States
College	University of Southern California
Career
Turned Pro	1964
Current tour	Champions Tour
Professional wins	24 (PGA Tour: 10, Champions Tour: 14)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 2
Masters	T2: 1974
U.S. Open	T2: 1978
British Open	T11: 1971
PGA Championship	Won 1970, 1976

David Knapp Stockton (born November 2, 1941) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour.

Stockton was born in San Bernardino, California. He attended University of Southern California and turned professional in 1964. His first PGA Tour win came at the 1967 Colonial National Invitation. His career year was 1974, when he won three times, but his two majors, both of which were PGA Championships, came in 1970 and 1976. In 1970 he played the final round with Arnold Palmer, shooting an erratic seventy-three which included an eagle and a double-bogey back to back on the seventh and the eighth, and making only a bogey on the thirteenth despite putting a ball in the water. In the end, this effort was good enough for a two stroke victory over Palmer and Bob Murphy. Due to rain at the 1976 PGA Championship, which was held at the Congressional Country Club, the final round had to be delayed until Monday for the first time in the tournament's history. Stockton sank a ten foot birdie putt at the seventy-second hole to avoid a three-man playoff with Raymond Floyd and Don January.

Stockton joined the PGA Senior Tour (now the Champions Tour) in 1991 and enjoyed continued success, topping the Senior Tour money list in 1993 and 1994. His fourteen senior titles include three senior majors, the 1992 and 1994 Senior Players Championships and the 1996 U.S. Senior Open. He remains competitive in his sixties, finishing in the Top 50 on the Champions Tour money list for a thiteenth consecutive season in 2004.

Stockton played for the U.S. team in the Ryder Cup in 1971 and 1977. He was the U.S.'s victorious non-playing captain in the 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island.

Stockton is married to former Orange Show beauty queen Catherine Hales. They have two children, Dave Jr. and Ron. They both play professional golf.

[edit] PGA Tour wins (10)

• 1967 (1) Colonial National Invitation
• 1968 (2) Cleveland Open Invitational, Greater Milwaukee Open
• 1970 (1) PGA Championship
• 1971 (1) Massachusetts Classic
• 1973 (1) Greater Milwaukee Open
• 1974 (3) Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open, Quad Cities Open, Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open
• 1976 (1) PGA Championship

Major championships are shown in bold.

[edit] Champions Tour wins (14)

• 1992 (1) Mazda Presents The Senior Players Championship
• 1993 (5) Muratec Reunion Pro-Am, Southwestern Bell Classic, Franklin Quest Championship, GTE Northwest Classic, The Transamerica
• 1994 (3) Nationwide Championship, Ford Senior Players Championship, Burnet Senior Classic
• 1995 (2) GTE Suncoast Classic, Quicksilver Classic
• 1996 (2) U.S. Senior Open, First of America Classic
• 1997 (1) Franklin Quest Championship

Senior major championships are shown in bold.

[edit] Major Championships

[edit] Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runners Up
1970	PGA Championship	-1 (70-70-66-73=279)	2 strokes	Bob Murphy, Arnold Palmer
1976	PGA Championship (2)	+1 (70-72-69-70=281)	1 stroke	Raymond Floyd, Don January

[edit] Results timeline

DNP = Did not play
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
• Golfers with most Champions Tour wins

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Profile on the PGA Tour's official site