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Joe Inman  |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 70 on All-Time Money List FULL NAME: Joe Inman HEIGHT: 5-11 WEIGHT: 165 BIRTHDATE: November 29, 1947 BIRTHPLACE: Indianapolis, IN RESIDENCE: Marietta, GA FAMILY: Wife, Nancy; Joseph Craig (4/13/77), Sally Anne (8/9/83), Kate (10/31/86) EDUCATION: Wake Forest University (1970, History) TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1972 JOINED TOUR: 1998 |
| PGA TOUR Victories |
| (1) 1976 Kemper Open. |
| Champions Tour Victories |
| (3) 1998 Pacific Bell Senior Classic. 1999 Pacific Bell Senior Classic. 2000 SBC Senior Classic. |
| Other Victories |
| 1968 Carolinas Open. 1969 North-South Amateur. 1970 North Carolina Amateur. |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $66,765 (74) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| T30--Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 65 at Round 1, Kinko's Classic of Austin |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| 1--1976 Kemper Open. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--1998 Pacific Bell Senior Classic. 1999 Pacific Bell Senior Classic. 2000 SBC Senior Classic. |
| Best Nationwide Tour Finishes |
| T21--1994 NIKE Central Georgia Open. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| T8--Emerald Coast Classic |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--26; in money--26; Top 10 finishes--1 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Had just one top-10 finish in the 26 events he played and that came early in the season with a T8 at the rain-shortened Emerald Coast Classic near Pensacola...Also T17 at the Greater Baltimore Classic...Continued to do some analyst work for CNBC on Champions Tour telecasts. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2001: Had just two top-10 finishes with both coming during a three-week span in May...Trailed Jim Colbert by just one stroke entering the final round of The Home Depot Invitational, but ended up T6 after posting a 1-over 73 on Sunday...Found himself again on the leaderboard through two rounds of the TD Waterhouse Championship thanks to an 8-under 64 on Saturday, his lowest round since the 1999 Kroger Senior Classic (63). Eventually T6 again after shooting a two-under 70 at Tiffany Greens. 2000: Among the top 10 in almost one-third of his starts and quickly recovered from an inner-ear infection to have his two best performances near the end of the season...Went all 54 holes of the EMC Kaanapali Classic without making a bogey and finished second to Hale Irwin by four strokes in Hawaii...Won for a third straight year at the SBC Senior Classic, becoming the fifth of six players in Champions Tour history to three-peat and the first since Hale Irwin claimed the 1996-98 PGA Seniors' Championship...Bogey-free streak ended at 94 straight holes during the opening round of the Los Angeles event, the second-longest run in Champions Tour history, just three holes shy of Jack Kiefer's mark...Hit all 28 fairways during the rain-shortened Toshiba Senior Classic and became just the fifth Champions Tour player to not miss a fairway during an event. 1999: Had all 10 of his top-10s after April...Again saved his best for near the end of the year when he successfully defended his Pacific Bell Senior Classic title. Rallied from three strokes back on Sunday with a sizzling 65 to edge Dave Stockton by two strokes. Almost won the Cadillac NFL Golf Classic, but lost to Allen Doyle on the fourth extra hole...Fired a Champions Tour career-low round of 7-under 63 on Saturday at the Kroger Senior Classic. 1998: Won his first Champions Tour title late in the season at the Pacific Bell Senior Classic. Jumped from 42nd on the money list into the top 31 with the victory. Was a one-stroke winner over Lee Trevino at Wilshire CC, making birdie on three of his last five holes...Selected by his peers as the Champions Tour Rookie of the Year. 1997: Earned fully exempt status for 1998 after finishing T5 at the 1997 National Qualifying Tournament at the TPC of Sawgrass Valley Course in November. |
| Personal |
| Worked as a Ping sales representative from 1989-97...Also was a member of the PGA TOUR Radio Network broadcast crew in 1997...His brother John is a two-time winner on the PGA TOUR and is now the golf coach at North Carolina...A college teammate of Leonard Thompson and Lanny Wadkins at Wake Forest...Served a brief stint in the U.S. Army following his graduation from Wake Forest...Lists Cypress Point as his favorite golf course and Arnold Palmer as his favorite athlete...Was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame on Feb. 9, 2002 along with former Wake football players Ricky Proehl (St. Louis Rams) and Tony Mayberry (Tampa Bay Buccaneers). |
| Champions Tour Playoff Record |
| 0-1 |
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