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Ben Crenshaw  |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on All-Time Money List FULL NAME: Ben Crenshaw HEIGHT: 5-9 WEIGHT: 157 BIRTHDATE: January 11, 1952 BIRTHPLACE: Austin, TX RESIDENCE: Austin, TX FAMILY: Wife, Julie; Katherine Vail (10/6/87), Claire Susan (4/23/92), Anna Riley (2/12/98) EDUCATION: University of Texas SPECIAL INTERESTS: Fishing, bird watching, collecting golf artifacts, golf course architecture, country music TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1973 JOINED TOUR: 2002 |
| PGA TOUR Victories |
| (19) 1973 San Antonio Texas Open. 1976 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Hawaiian Open, Ohio Kings Island Open. 1977 Colonial National Invitation Tournament. 1979 Phoenix Open, Walt Disney World National Team Championship. 1980 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic. 1983 Byron Nelson Golf Classic. 1984 Masters Tournament. 1986 Buick Open, Vantage Championship. 1987 USF&G Classic. 1988 Doral-Ryder Open. 1990 Southwestern Bell Colonial. 1992 Centel Western Open. 1993 Nestle Invitational. 1994 Freeport-McMoRan Classic. 1995 Masters Tournament. |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $43,885 (73) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| T20--Bruno's Memorial Classic |
| Current Year PGA TOUR Best Round |
| 76 at Round 2, Masters Tournament |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 69 at Round 3, Bruno's Memorial Classic |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| 1--1973 San Antonio Texas Open. 1976 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Hawaiian Open, Ohio Kings Island Open. 1977 Colonial National Invitation Tournament. 1979 Phoenix Open, Walt Disney World National Team Championship. 1980 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic. 1983 Byron Nelson Golf Classic. 1984 Masters Tournament. 1986 Buick Open, Vantage Championship. 1987 USF&G Classic. 1988 Doral-Ryder Open. 1990 Southwestern Bell Colonial. 1992 Centel Western Open. 1993 Nestle Invitational. 1994 Freeport-McMoRan Classic. 1995 Masters Tournament. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| T8--2002 Kroger Senior Classic. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| T8--Kroger Senior Classic |
| 2002 Season PGA TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--2; in money--; Top 10 finishes--0 |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--20; in money--19; Top 10 finishes--1 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Made his Champions Tour debut at The ACE Group Classic and T43 with a 1-under 215 total at The Club at Twin Eagles...Was expected to begin play the previous week at the Royal Caribbean Classic but had to withdraw prior to the event due to illness...Turned in two of his stronger performances of the year during two-week stretch in early September highlighted by his T8 finish at the Kroger Senior Classic near Cincinnati. His second-round 7-under-par 65 was his low round of the year...A week earlier finished T12 at the Allianz Championship in Des Moines...One of the top putters on the Champions Tour. Led all players in putts per round with 28.20 and was third in putting average at 1.750. At one point during the year he went 281 holes without a three-putt and had only 15 three-putts in 61 rounds during the year...Voted into the World Golf Hall of Fame via the PGA TOUR Ballot, and was inducted on Nov. 15. |
| Personal |
| Noted golf historian...Introduced to golf by his father and won his first tournament as a fourth-grader...Fought winning battle against Graves Disease (disease of the thyroid) in mid-1980s...1996 PGA National Golf Day Honorary Chairperson...His book, A Feel for the Game, reached No. 25 on the New York Times best-seller list in 2001...Appointed to President's Commission On White House Fellowships by President George W. Bush...Lists Bobby Jones as his hero and Pine Valley GC as his favorite course. |
| PGA TOUR Playoff Record |
| 0-8 |
| Other Information |
| 1976 Irish Open [Eur]. 1981 Mexican Open. 1988 World Cup [Indiv.] |