| PGA TOUR Victories |
| (3) 1985 Greater Milwaukee Open, Seiko/Tucson Match
Play Championship. 1986 Seiko/Tucson Match Play Championship. |
| SENIOR TOUR Victories |
| (4) 2000 The Transamerica, Gold Rush Classic. 2001 Kroger
Senior Classic, Allianz Championship. |
| Other Victories |
| 1982 Canadian PGA Championship. |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup
Points and Positions |
| 99 (T28th) |
| Current Year SENIOR PGA TOUR Money
and Positions |
| $193,801 (26) |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Finishes |
| T3--ACE Group Classic |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Round |
| 66 at Round 1, ACE Group Classic |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Highlights |
| Closed with consecutive rounds of 68 to T3 with Jim
Dent at The ACE Group Classic. |
| Best BUY.COM Finishes |
| T6--1998 NIKE South Florida Open. |
| Best 2001 SENIOR TOUR Finishes |
| 1--Kroger Senior Classic, Allianz Championship; 2--MasterCard
Championship, Senior PGA Championship; 3--State Farm Senior
Classic, The Home Depot Invitational; 4--The Instinet
Classic; 5--AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship; 7--Bruno's
Memorial Classic, Gold Rush Classic, Lightpath Long Island
Classic; T8--Novell Utah Showdown; T9--Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Match Play Champ |
| 2001 Season SENIOR TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--35; in money--35; Top-10 finishes--13 |
| 2001 Season Highlights |
| Enjoyed the most lucrative year of his career with over
$1.8 million, good for the sixth on the money list for
the second straight year...Among his 13 top-10s were two
wins, a pair of seconds and two thirds...Kept alive his
record of never winning any TOUR event prior to Sept.
1 when he posted back-to-back victories early in the fall.
Won a playoff for the rain-shortened Kroger Senior Classic
title and then claimed the inaugural Allianz Championship
the following week...Made a dramatic eagle on the final
hole of regulation at the Kroger event to set up a playoff
with Tom Jenkins and then won with a birdie on the first
extra hole. Hit 3-wood from 245 yards for a one-foot tap-in
eagle putt...Used seven birdies in an 11-hole stretch
to win by two strokes at the Allianz Championship and
earned the largest check of his career -- $262,500...Wins
late in the campaign capped a four-week run where he finished
in the top 10 in every tournament. Started with a T8 at
the Novell Utah Showdown and followed with a solo fifth
place finish at the AT&T Canada Senior Open prior to his
two victories...Contended for his first senior major championship
crown before losing by a stroke to Tom Watson at the Senior
PGA Championship. Missed an uphill six-foot birdie putt
to tie on Ridgewood CC's final hole...Was also a runner-up
to Larry Nelson at the MasterCard Championship to start
the year...Held the 36-hole lead at the State Farm Senior
Classic, but fell one stroke shy of a playoff with Bruce
Fleisher and eventual winner Allen Doyle... Selected as
the SENIOR TOUR's Player of the Month for September...T3
in Rounds-in-the-60s with 46 and was fourth in sub-par
rounds with 66. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2000: Claimed the first two victories of his SENIOR
TOUR career and yearly winnings of $1.6 million almost
matched his entire earnings total in 25 years on the PGA
TOUR...Named the Player of the Month for October after
posting four straight top-5 finishes, that included back-to-back
victories in northern California at The Transamerica and
the Gold Rush Classic...Win in the Napa Valley ended a
victory drought of just over 14 years ('86 Tucson Match
Play Championship). 18-under-par 198 score at Silverado
was three better than Bruce Fleisher and was a tournament
record...Cruised to a two-stroke victory over Ed Dougherty
at the Gold Rush Classic with a 21-under 195 total for
54 holes, a tournament record at the time and the lowest
54-hole score on the SENIOR TOUR for the season. Posted
back-to-back rounds of 62-66--128 on the final two days
at Serrano, the lowest back-to-back scores of the year.
62 in the second round at the Gold Rush event was his
low round as a senior player and was a course record at
Serrano. Victory near Sacramento allowed him to become
the first player since Gibby Gilbert in 1992 to win consecutive
starts with sub-200 scores and he also became the first
player since Bob Charles (1992) to win consecutive tournaments
in northern California...Had a string of 10 straight sub-70
rounds late in the year, sharing the best streak on the
SENIOR TOUR with Stewart Ginn...Recorded his second hole-in-one
on the SENIOR TOUR in the opening round of the Boone Valley
Classic...Had more sub-par rounds (80) than any other
player and was third in top-10 finishes with 18...Ranked
second to Dana Quigley (475) in Total Birdies with 453.
1999: Turned in a solid rookie season with nine top-10
finishes and was among the circuit's top-20 money-winners...Came
closest to a victory at the Bell Atlantic Classic. Fired
a final-round 65 on Sunday at Hartefeld National to come
from four strokes off the pace and catch Tom Jenkins,
but eventually lost to Jenkins on the first playoff hole...Made
the first hole-in-one on the SENIOR TOUR last year in
the final round of the Royal Caribbean Classic. 1998:
Earned full exemption for 1999 by finishing T6 at the
1998 SENIOR TOUR National Qualifying Tournament at the
Grenelefe Golf and Tennis Resort. After carding rounds
of 67-76-72, fired a 3-under-par 69 on the final day to
secure his top-eight finish and a full exemption for the
1999 campaign. |
| Personal |
| Is the ninth of 12 children...Grew up next to eighth
fairway at Roxboro (NC) CC, where father, Elbert Sr.,
was the greenskeeper...One of his brothers, Chuck, played
for a period on the PGA TOUR and in several events on
the SENIOR TOUR in 1998, while another brother, Bill,
finished 18th at the 1998 SENIOR TOUR National Qualifying
Tournament and reached a playoff at the 2001 Q-School...Earned
a scholarship to Morgan State as a running back. |
| PGA TOUR Playoff Record |
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| SENIOR TOUR Playoff Record |
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