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Allen Doyle
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EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31
on 2001 SENIOR TOUR Money List
FULL NAME: Allen Michael Doyle
HEIGHT: 6-3
WEIGHT: 210
BIRTHDATE: July 26, 1948
BIRTHPLACE: Woonsocket, RI
RESIDENCE: La Grange, GA
FAMILY: Wife, Kate; Erin (8/22/79), Michelle (10/26/80)
EDUCATION: Norwich University
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Family
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1995
JOINED TOUR: 1998
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| SENIOR TOUR Victories |
| (7) 1999 ACE Group Classic, PGA Seniors' Championship,
Cadillac NFL Golf Classic, TD Waterhouse Championship.
2000 Toshiba Senior Classic. 2001 FORD SENIOR PLAYERS
Championship, State Farm Senior Classic. |
| BUY.COM Victories |
| (3) 1995 NIKE Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic, NIKE Texarkana
Open, NIKE TOUR Championship. |
| International Victories |
| 1999 Senior Slam, 2001 Senior Slam |
| Other Victories |
| Georgia State Amateur 1978-79, 1982, 1987-88, 1990.
Georgia State Mid-Amateur Championship 1984, 1986-89.
Georgia State Four-Ball Tournament, 1982, 1986, 1989.
1990. 1994 Porter Cup. 1994 Sunnehanna Amateur. 1994 Cardinal
Amateur. 1994 Dogwood Amateur. 1994 Rice Planters Invitational.
1995 BUY.COM Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic, BUY.COM Texarkana
Open, BUY.COM TOUR Championship. |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup
Points and Positions |
| 332 (10th) |
| Current Year SENIOR PGA TOUR Money
and Positions |
| $382,763 (11) |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Finishes |
| 2--Toshiba Senior Classic; T5--MasterCard Championship,
ACE Group Classic; T8--SBC Senior Classic, Emerald Coast
Classic |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Round |
| 66 at Round 3, Verizon Classic, at Round 1, Toshiba
Senior Classic |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Highlights |
| Opened the season with a T5 at the MasterCard Championship...T5
again in Naples at The ACE Group Classic thanks to three
straight rounds in the 60s at TwinEagles, his fourth straight
top-five finish in that event...Also T8 at the SBC Senior
Classic near Los Angeles...Runner-up to Hale Irwin at
the Toshiba Senior Classic after owning sole possession
of first place after the opening round. |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| T7--1998 Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic. |
| Best 2001 SENIOR TOUR Finishes |
| 1--FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, State Farm Senior
Classic; 2--NFL Golf Classic, Gold Rush Classic, Siebel
Classic in Silicon Valley, Lightpath Long Island Classic,
SAS Championship; 3--Toshiba Senior Classic, Bruno's Memorial
Classic, Turtle Bay Championship; 4--Senior PGA Championship,
U.S. Senior Open, The Transamerica; T5--ACE Group Classic,
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Champ, BellSouth Senior
Classic at Opryland, FleetBoston Classic; T6--Royal Caribbean
Classic, Verizon Classic, The Home Depot Invitational;
7--MasterCard Championship; T8--Las Vegas Senior Classic,
AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship; T10--The Countrywide
Tradition, Allianz Championship |
| 2001 Season SENIOR TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--34; in money--34; Top-10 finishes--25 |
| 2001 Season Highlights |
| Was the SENIOR TOUR's mark of consistency with 25 top-10
finishes in 34 starts, one top 10 short of Lee Trevino's
all-time senior record (1990)...Battled Bruce Fleisher
down the stretch for both the Charles Schwab Cup and the
overall money title and eventually claimed both honors...Received
the Jack Nicklaus Award after he was voted as the Player
of the Year by his peers...Took over the lead in the Charles
Schwab Cup at the inaugural SAS Championship and eventually
finished 216 points ahead of Fleisher to receive the $1
million tax-deferred annuity. Donated the entire amount
to six different charitable organizations...Moved to the
top spot on the money list for good at the Gold Rush Classic
and went on to pocket $2,553,582, the third highest single-season
total in SENIOR TOUR history...Was 236 under par, the
most under by any senior player...Led the SENIOR TOUR
with 55 of his 102 rounds in the 60s and had an amazing
81 sub-par rounds, one short of Tom Wargo's record (1994)...Triumphed
twice and came close to winning four other tournaments...Along
with Fleisher, finished in the top 10 in all four senior
major championships...Claimed both of his 2001 titles
in playoffs over a span of three weeks starting in mid-July.
Holed a 35-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to jump into
a playoff with Doug Tewell at the FORD SENIOR PLAYERS
Championship. Defeated Tewell with a par on the first
playoff hole for his second major championship on the
SENIOR TOUR. The $375,000 paycheck in Dearborn, MI was
the largest of his career...Returned to the winner's circle
two weeks later at the State Farm Senior Classic near
Baltimore. Rebounded from an opening-round 73 to get into
a tie with Fleisher at the end of regulation. Outlasted
Fleisher with a four-foot par putt on the third playoff
hole for his seventh SENIOR TOUR title...Was voted as
the SENIOR TOUR's Player of the Month for July...T2 the
following week at the Lightpath Long Island Classic, missing
out on a playoff opportunity when Bobby Wadkins made birdie
on the final hole...Placed second in tournaments on consecutive
weeks in September. Came up three strokes short of Bruce
Lietzke at the SAS event in Raleigh despite three straight
rounds in the 60s at Prestonwood. Battled Tom Kite down
the stretch at the Gold Rush Classic and eventually lost
by one stroke despite shooting a 54-hole score of 21-under
195 at Serrano, the lowest three-round total ever recorded
on the SENIOR TOUR that did not win an event. Equaled
his career-low round with a 9-under 63 on the final day
near Sacramento...Prior to his first victory of the season,
had tied for a distant second to Hale Irwin at the inaugural
Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley and lost on the second
hole of a playoff to John Schroeder at the NFL Golf Classic
in New Jersey...Claimed the Senior Slam in November when
he fired consecutive 67s for a two-stroke win in the four-man
field. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2000: Posted just one official victory during the season
despite improving his scoring average by almost half a
stroke from the previous season (69.56 vs. 70.02)...Claimed
the rain-shortened Toshiba Senior Classic. Birdied the
18th hole of Saturday's second round to open a one-stroke
lead over Howard Twitty and Jim Thorpe. Slim margin held
up when Sunday's final round was canceled by torrential
downpour that made the Newport Beach CC course unplayable...Was
par/better in 81 of his 99 rounds on the year at stroke-play
(.818)...Matched his senior career low of 63 in the second
round of the EMC Kaanapali Classic...Equaled the SENIOR
TOUR's all-time largest first-round lead, five strokes,
when he carded a course-record 8-under 64 at the TPC of
Myrtle Beach during the IR SENIOR TOUR Championship...Also
had a rare double-eagle in the second round of The Home
Depot Invitational in Charlotte, holing a 3-wood second
shot on the second hole at the TPC at Piper Glen. 1999:
Finished third on the final official earnings list despite
occasional back problems...Won four times in his first
full season as a senior and claimed his first senior major
championship among those victories...Went wire-to-wire
for his initial triumph at The ACE Group Classic in Naples,
easily defeating Vicente Fernandez by five strokes. Win
made him the first player ever to triumph on both the
SENIOR TOUR and BUY.COM TOURs...Returned to Florida just
over a month later to defeat Fernandez again at the PGA
Seniors' Championship at PGA National. Came from four
strokes back on Sunday with an 8-under-par 64 and won
by two shots, the best come-from-behind effort on the
circuit that season...Earned Player of the Month honors
for April...Despite having back problems throughout the
final round, bested Joe Inman in a playoff for the Cadillac
NFL Golf Classic title at Upper Montclair in early June...Used
a then course-record 63, his lowest score of the campaign,
in the opening round of the TD Waterhouse Championship
to edge Ed Dougherty by two strokes. Was a runner-up in
four other events, including a playoff loss to Gary McCord
at the Toshiba Senior Classic. 1998: Became fully exempt
for the 1999 season by garnering medalist honors at the
SENIOR TOUR National Qualifying Tournament at Grenelefe...13-under-par
275 total was a Q-school record...Made six appearances
after turning 50 in June, and had his best finish at the
Raley's Gold Rush Classic when he finished T4 near Sacramento. |
| Personal |
| A member of the Norwich (Vt.) University Sports Hall
of Fame as a hockey player...Says his unorthodox swing
developed from practicing in a room with a low ceiling
as a youngster in Massachusetts...Played on a number of
amateur teams with fellow SENIOR TOUR player Jay Sigel...Member
of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Georgia Golf
Hall of Fame...Once caddied for Bruce Fleisher in the
late 1960s. |
| SENIOR TOUR Playoff Record |
| 3-2 |
| BUY.COM TOUR Playoff Record |
| 2-0 |
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