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Allen Doyle  |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on 2002 Champions Tour Money List FULL NAME: Allen 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 |
| Champions 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. |
| Nationwide Tour Victories |
| (3) 1995 NIKE Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic, NIKE Texarkana Open, NIKE TOUR Championship. |
| International Victories |
| 1999 Senior Slam, 2001 Senior Slam |
| Other Victories |
| 1978 Georgia State Amateur. 1979 Georgia State Amateur. 1982 Georgia State Mid-Amateur Championship, Georgia State Four-Ball Tournament. 1986 Georgia State Four-Ball Tournament. 1987 Georgia State Amateur, Georgia State Mid-Amateur Championship, Georgia State Four-Ball Tournament. 1988 Georgia State Amateur, Georgia State Mid-Amateur Championship, Georgia State Four-Ball Tournament. 1989 Georgia State Four-Ball Tournament. 1990 Georgia State Mid-Amateur Championship, Georgia State Four-Ball Tournament. 1994 Porter Cup, Sunnehanna Amateur, Cardinal Amateur, Dogwood Amateur, Rice Planters Invitational. 1995 Nationwide Tour Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic, Nationwide Tour Texarkana Open, Nationwide Tour Championship. |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup Points and Positions |
| 236 (16) |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $347,538 (15) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| T5--SBC Classic |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 65 at Round 1, MasterCard Classic |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| T7--1998 Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--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. |
| Best Nationwide Tour Finishes |
| 1--1995 NIKE Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic, NIKE Texarkana Open, NIKE TOUR Championship. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| 2--Toshiba Senior Classic, T3--The Instinet Classic, Lightpath Long Island Classic, T5--MasterCard Championship, ACE Group Classic, 3M Championship, Allianz Championship, T7--U.S. Senior Open, AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship, T8--SBC Senior Classic, Emerald Coast Classic, T9--Napa Valley Championship presented by Beringer Vineyards, T10--RJR Championship |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--32; in money--32; Top 10 finishes--13 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Failed to post a victory, but had 13 top-10 finishes (sixth on Champions Tour), including a second and two third-place efforts...His money total was the second highest in a season for a player without a victory (Dana Quigley earned $1,327,659 in 1999)...Runner-up to Hale Irwin at the Toshiba Senior Classic after owning sole possession of first place after the opening round...T3 at the Instinet Classic and Lightpath Long Island Classics...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 T5 at the Allianz Championship in Des Moines, Iowa...Turned in another strong effort the following week at the 3M Championship, finishing T5...Was the 36-hole leader at the Napa Valley Championship, but shot 74 on Sunday and was a T9 at Silverado. His opening-round 64 at Silverado was his low round of the year...Second in driving accuracy for the season. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2001: Was the Champions 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 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 earn $2,553,582, the third highest single-season total in Champions Tour history...Was 236-under par, the most under by any senior player...Led the Champions Tour with 55 (out of 102) rounds in the 60s and had 81 sub-par rounds, one short of Tom Wargo's record (1994)...Won 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 and then defeated Tewell with a par on the first playoff hole for his second major championship on the Champions Tour. The $375,000 paycheck was the largest of his career...Won again two weeks later at the State Farm Senior Classic. 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 Champions Tour title. Equaled his career-low round with a 9-under 63 on the final day at the Gold Rush Classic...Claimed the Senior Slam in November when he fired consecutive 67s for a two-stroke win in the four-man field. 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 heavy rains before and during Sunday's final round 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 Champions 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, 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, easily defeating Vicente Fernandez by five strokes. Win made him the first player ever to triumph on both the Champions Tour and Nationwide 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...Despite having back problems throughout the final round, bested Joe Inman in a playoff for the Cadillac NFL Golf Classic title...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. 1998: Became fully exempt for the 1999 season by garnering medalist honors at the Champions Tour National Qualifying Tournament at Grenelefe...His 13-under-par 275 total was a Q-school record at the time...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 Champions 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...Got started in golf while caddying at Spring Valley Country Club in Sharon, MA when he was 14...Is a big sports fan and tries to see events whenever he is on the road and follows the Red Sox...His favorite athlete of all-time is former Boston Bruins great Bobby Orr...His first car was a 1969 Mercury Montego which he got in 1972 for $2,500...Has carried a Scotty Cameron putter in his bag for more than a dozen years now and has used only two putters in his career. Used to carry a copy of the old Tommy Armour Ironmaster before that. He has also used a Ping Eye-2 sand wedge for more than 20 years. |
| Champions Tour Playoff Record |
| 3-2 |
| Nationwide Tour Playoff Record |
| 2-0 |
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