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Dave Stockton  |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on All-TIme Money List FULL NAME: Dave Stockton HEIGHT: 5-11 WEIGHT: 185 BIRTHDATE: November 2, 1941 BIRTHPLACE: San Bernardino, CA RESIDENCE: Mentone, CA FAMILY: Wife, Catherine; David (7/31/68), Ronald (9/16/70); two grandchildren EDUCATION: University of Southern California (1964, General Management) SPECIAL INTERESTS: Bison ranching, hunting, fishing TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1964 JOINED TOUR: 1991 |
| PGA TOUR Victories |
| (10) 1967 Colonial National Invitation Tournament. 1968 Cleveland Open Invitational, Greater Milwaukee Open. 1970 PGA Championship. 1971 Massachusetts Classic. 1973 Greater Milwaukee Open. 1974 Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open, Quad Cities Open, Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open. 1976 PGA Championship. |
| Champions Tour Victories |
| (14) 1992 Mazda Presents THE SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. 1993 Murata Reunion Pro-Am, Southwestern Bell Classic, Franklin Quest Championship, GTE Northwest Classic, The Transamerica. 1994 Nationwide Championship, FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, Burnet Senior Classic. 1995 GTE Suncoast Classic, Quicksilver Classic. 1996 U.S. Senior Open, First of America Classic. 1997 Franklin Quest Championship. |
| Other Victories |
| 1967 Haig Scotch Foursome Invitational (with Laurie Hammer). |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $76,316 (54) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| T13--Toshiba Senior Classic |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 68 at Round 1, Toshiba Senior Classic, at Round 2, Toshiba Senior Classic |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| 1--1967 Colonial National Invitation Tournament. 1968 Cleveland Open Invitational, Greater Milwaukee Open. 1970 PGA Championship. 1971 Massachusetts Classic. 1973 Greater Milwaukee Open. 1974 Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open, Quad Cities Open, Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open. 1976 PGA Championship. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--1992 Mazda Presents THE SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. 1993 Murata Reunion Pro-Am, Southwestern Bell Classic, Franklin Quest Championship, GTE Northwest Classic, The Transamerica. 1994 Nationwide Championship, FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, Burnet Senior Classic. 1995 GTE Suncoast Classic, Quicksilver Classic. 1996 U.S. Senior Open, First of America Classic. 1997 Franklin Quest Championship. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| T3--Verizon Classic T3--Toshiba Senior Classic |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--26; in money--25; Top 10 finishes--4 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Had his highest finish on the money list since 1998...Four top-10 finishes highlighted by a pair of third-place efforts early in the year...Birdied the final three holes at the TPC of Tampa Bay to close with a 68 and T3 at the Verizon Classic, his best finish in a Champions Tour event since placing second at the 2000 Foremost Insurance Championship...T3 again at the Toshiba Senior Classic after posting three straight sub-70 scores at Newport Beach...Closed with 8-under 64 at the Napa Valley Championship, his low round since the 2000 Novell Utah Showdown...Joined the ranks of the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions at the start of the year and finished third on the over-60 money list with $304,291...Along with Al Geiberger, lost to George Archer in a six-hole playoff for the Georgia-Pacific title at the Royal Caribbean Classic and suffered another overtime loss to Charles Coody at the BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland. Along with J.C. Snead and Larry Ziegler, lost to Jim Dent in overtime for the Georgia-Pacific title at the TD Waterhouse Championship. Missed a playoff opportunity with Gibby Gilbert in the Georgia-Pacific Super Seniors Championship in Oklahoma City when he three-putted the final hole. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2001: Led all players in fewest putts per round (28.46). 2000: Finished solo second at the Foremost Insurance Championship, three strokes back of wire-to-wire winner Larry Nelson. 1999: Led by two strokes heading into the final round of the Pacific Bell Senior Classic, but a 70 on Sunday left him T2 behind Joe Inman. 1998: Went over the million-dollar mark ($1,040,524) in yearly earnings for a fifth time, the first Champions Tour player to do so for five consecutive years...Opened with a 7-under 64 at the Royal Caribbean Classic, but eventually lost to David Graham in a 10-hole playoff, the longest sudden-death affair in Champions Tour history...Also finished second to Larry Nelson on the final nine holes of the American Express Invitational. 1997: Birdied three of the final four holes to post a two-stroke win over Kermit Zarley at the Franklin Quest Championship. 1996: Victorious at the U.S. Senior Open at Canterbury GC in Cleveland. After opening with a 70, fired back-to-back 67s to open a seven-shot lead after 54 holes and then held off a late charge by Hale Irwin to win by two strokes...Came from four strokes back a month later to win the First of America Classic near Grand Rapids. 1995: Claimed the earliest win of his Champions Tour career when he triumphed at the GTE Suncoast Classic near Tampa, defeating three players by two strokes...Also came from four shots back to win the Pittsburgh Senior Classic by one shot over Isao Aoki. 1994: Claimed a second consecutive Arnold Palmer Award as the circuit's leading money-winner, the first player to do so since Bob Charles in 1988-89...Earnings of over $1.4 million were more than his total amount in 27 years on the PGA TOUR...Voted Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America...Nabbed wins at the Nationwide Championship and a second FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship title, where he was six strokes better than Jim Albus...Also won the Burnet Senior Classic by one over Albus. 1993: Collected both the Arnold Palmer Award and the Champions Tour Player of the Year Award after winning a career-high five tournaments...Won back-to-back events at the Franklin Quest Championship and the GTE Northwest Classic...Tied a 54-hole Champions Tour record for largest victory margin, winning by nine strokes in Utah...Was the circuit's only wire-to-wire winner of the season at the GTE Northwest event near Seattle...Voted Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America and other assorted publications. 1992: Voted Champions Tour Rookie of the Year...Won his first event at the Mazda Presents THE SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, coming from behind to edge J.C Snead and Lee Trevino on the last hole. 1991: Debuted on the circuit at the First Development Kaanapali Classic. Shot three sub-70 rounds and finished 12th at the final full-field event of the year. |
| Personal |
| Made history in March 1996, when he and his two sons each played a different TOUR event on the same weekend...Dave was at the FHP Health Care Classic, Dave Jr. was playing at the Doral-Ryder Open and youngest son, Ronnie, was playing in the Inland Empire Open on the Nationwide Tour...Became co-owner of a bison ranch in northern California in 1996...Served as honorary chairman for the 1995 Heartland of America Pro-Am that raised more than $400,000 to build a new day-care center for Oklahoma City...Was known as "King of the Corporate Outings" during the 1980s when he averaged more than 90 days a year mixing business with the game of golf...Father was a golf professional and got him started in the game of golf...Broke his back at age 15 and as a result, stopped playing basketball and baseball to concentrate of golf...Favorite athlete was Ted Williams...Favorite meal is Mexican food...Also admires Byron Nelson. |
| PGA TOUR Playoff Record |
| 0-1 |
| Champions Tour Playoff Record |
| 0-6 |