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Payne Stewart
Personal Information
Birth January 30, 1957
Springfield, Missouri
Death October 25, 1999 (aged 42)
Mina, South Dakota
Nationality Flag of the United States United States
College Southern Methodist University
Career
Turned Professional 1982
Professional wins 23 (PGA Tour: 11, Other: 12)
Major Championship results
Wins: 3
Masters T8: 1986
U.S. Open Won 1991, 1999
British Open 2nd/T2: 1985, 1990
PGA Championship Won 1989
Awards
Byron Nelson Award 1989
World Golf Hall of Fame 2001

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Stewart was born in Springfield, Missouri, and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. Springfield is a city in Christian and Greene Counties in the U Southern Methodist University ("SMU" is a private, Coeducational University in University Park, Texas (an enclave Origins of Phi Gamma Delta Historical sketch of Jefferson College In 1803 only a small percentage of Americans attended college He was always popular with fans, especially for his clothing, and was reputed to have the biggest wardrobe of all professional golfers. He was a favorite of photographers because of his tam o'shanter caps and patterned trousers, which were a combination of plus fours and knickerbockers, a throwback to the once-commonplace golfing "uniform". This article is about the hat called a 'tam o' shanter' For the golf course in Niles Illinois see Tam O'Shanter Golf Course. Plus fours are trousers that golfers wear 4 Inches below the Knee (and thus four inches longer than traditional knickerbockers, hence the name Knickerbockers were a men's or boys' baggy knee Trousers particularly popular in

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Golfing life

Stewart failed to earn a PGA Tour card at Qualifying School in his graduation year, so he played on the Asian Tour for a couple of years, winning twice. The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional Golf tours in the United States. In professional Golf the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U The Asian Tour is the principal men's professional Golf tour in Asia except for Japan which has its own Japan Golf Tour, which is also a full He finally earned his PGA Tour card in 1982 and won his first event on the tour at that year's Quad Cities Open. The John Deere Classic is an American professional golf event which is on the PGA Tour schedule He won eleven Tour events, including the 1989 PGA Championship and the U.S. Open in 1991 and 1999. The PGA Championship (sometimes referred to as the US PGA Championship outside of North America is an annual Golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the US He was a two-time winner of the Hassan II Trophy in Morocco. The Hassan II Golf Trophy is a golf tournament in Rabat, Morocco presided by His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid. Morocco (المغرب "al-Maghrib" officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية is a country located in North Africa At the time of his death was ranked in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings - he had been ranked in the top-10 for almost 250 weeks from 1986 to 1993 and again in 1999. The Official World Golf Rankings is a system for rating the performance level of male professional Golfers. [1] At a time of international domination of the golf scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s he was often the highest ranked American player.

Stewart represented the United States on five Ryder Cup teams (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1999) and was known for his patriotic passion for the event, once saying of his European opponents, "On paper, they should be caddying for us. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Ryder Cup is a Golf trophy donated by Samuel Ryder, which is awarded Biennially in an event called the "Ryder Cup Matches" between teams from "[2] He was disappointed to miss out in 1995 and 1997 when he failed to qualify automatically and wasn't chosen as a captain's pick. Stewart also played for the U. S. on three World Cup teams. The World Cup is an annual men's Golf tournament It is contested by teams of two representing their country

Death

Main article: 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash

On October 25, 1999, a month after the American team rallied to win the 1999 Ryder Cup in Brookline, Massachusetts, and four months after his U. The 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash involved a chartered Learjet 35 flying between Orlando, Florida, and Dallas, Texas. Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The 33rd Ryder Cup Matches, also known as the "Battle of Brookline" were held between September 24-26 at The Country Club in Brookline Massachusetts. Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. S. Open victory at Pinehurst No. 2 Stewart was killed in the sudden depressurization of a Learjet flying from Orlando to Dallas, Texas for the year-ending tournament, The Tour Championship, held at Champions Golf Club in Houston that year. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Orlando is a major City in central Florida, USA and is the County seat of Orange County Florida. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. The Tour Championship (sometimes typeset as THE TOUR Championship) was historically the final event of golf's PGA Tour season National Transportation Safety Board investigators later concluded that the plane suffered a gradual loss of cabin pressure early in the flight and that all on board died of hypoxia, lack of oxygen. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB is an independent U Cabin pressurization is the active pumping of compressed Air into an Aircraft cabin when flying at altitude to maintain a safe and comfortable environment for crew Chronic Hypoxia is a pathological condition in which the body as a whole ( generalized hypoxia) or region of the body ( tissue hypoxia) is deprived of adequate The plane, apparently still on autopilot and angled off-course, was observed by Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft as it continued its flight over the southern and midwestern United States. The Air National Guard ( ANG), often referred to as the Air Guard, is the air force militia organized by each of the several states and Other than frost on the plane's windows, the military pilots saw nothing amiss but were unable to directly observe the Learjet's pilot or copilot, who did not respond to repeated radio calls. It is likely that the pilots and occupants already had lost consciousness.

There was some speculation that military jets were prepared to shoot down the Lear if it threatened to crash in a heavily populated area. Officials at the Pentagon strongly denied that possibility. "Shooting down the plane was never an option," Air Force spokesman Capt. Joe Della Vedova said. "I don't know where that came from. "

Instead, according to an Air Force timeline, a series of military planes provided an emergency escort to the stricken Lear, beginning with an F-16 from Eglin Air Force Base, about an hour and twenty minutes (9:33 EDT to 9:52 CDT - see NTSB report on the crash) after ground controllers lost contact. Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States The plane continued flying until it ran out of fuel and crashed into a field around Mina, a town ten miles west of Aberdeen, South Dakota after an uncontrolled descent. Aberdeen is a City and the County seat of Brown County, South Dakota, USA, about 125 mi (200 km N The five other people aboard the plane included his agents Robert Fraley and Van Ardan, and pilots Michael Kling and Stephanie Bellegarrigue, along with Bruce Borland, a highly-regarded golf architect with the Jack Nicklaus golf course design company. Bruce Borland was a Golf course designer who worked for Jack Nicklaus. For his detailed statistics records and other achievements see List of career achievements by Jack Nicklaus.

At the time of his death, Stewart had won $12,673,193 in career earnings.

One year after Stewart's death, his widow Tracey and her two children, as well as the family of Stewart's agent Robert Fraley who also died on that flight, brought a lawsuit seeking $200,000,000 in damages against the Learjet's operator SunJet Aviation Inc and owner JetShares One Inc. The case was brought to trial in Federal Court in Orlando, Florida where in June of 2005 jurors acquitted the defendants of responsibility for the crash. In their verdict, the jurors also found that the plane's manufacturer, Learjet, had no liability in the deaths of Stewart and Fraley due to negligence in the design or manufacture of the plane.

After his death, the stretch of Interstate 44 that passes through Springfield, Missouri was designated as the Payne Stewart Memorial Highway in his memory. Interstate 44 (I-44 is an Interstate highway in the central United States. Springfield is a city in Christian and Greene Counties in the U

Professional wins (23)

PGA Tour wins (11)

Major championships are shown in bold. The 1982 PGA Tour season was played from January 7 to October 31. The John Deere Classic is an American professional golf event which is on the PGA Tour schedule The 1983 PGA Tour season was played from January 6 to October 30. The Children's Miracle Network Classic is an annual Golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The 1987 PGA Tour season was played from January 7 to November 1. The Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard is a PGA Tour Golf tournament The 1989 PGA Tour season was played from January 5 to October 29. The Verizon Heritage is a PGA Tour FedEx Cup event first played in 1969 The PGA Championship (sometimes referred to as the US PGA Championship outside of North America is an annual Golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America The 1990 PGA Tour season was played from January 4 to October 28. The Verizon Heritage is a PGA Tour FedEx Cup event first played in 1969 See also Dallas Open (tennis The EDS Byron Nelson Championship is a Golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The 1991 PGA Tour season was played from January 3 to November 3. The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the US The 1995 PGA Tour season was played from January 5 to October 29. The Shell Houston Open is a regular Golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The 1999 PGA Tour season was played from January 7 to November 7. The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, an event originally known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur or just the Crosby Clambake is a PGA Tour Golf tournament The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the US The men's major golf championships, often referred to simply as "the majors" are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional Golf.

Other wins (12)

this list is probably incomplete

Major championships

Wins (3)

Year Championship Winning Score Margin Runner(s) Up
1989 PGA Championship -12 (74-66-69-67=276) 1 stroke Flag of the United States Andy Bean, Flag of the United States Mike Reid, Flag of the United States Curtis Strange
1991 U.S. Open -6 (67-70-73-72=282) Playoff1 Flag of the United States Scott Simpson
1999 U.S. Open (2) -1 (68-69-72-70=279) 1 stroke Flag of the United States Phil Mickelson

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Results timeline

Tournament 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
The Masters DNP DNP T32 T21 T25 T8 T42 T25 T24
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP CUT T5 T6 CUT T10 T13
The Open Championship T58 DNP DNP CUT 2 T35 T4 T7 T8
PGA Championship DNP CUT CUT CUT T12 T5 T24 T9 1
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
The Masters T36 DNP CUT T9 CUT T41 CUT DNP DNP T52
U.S. Open CUT 1 T51 2 CUT T21 T27 T28 2 1
The Open Championship T2 T32 T34 12 CUT T11 T45 59 T44 T30
PGA Championship T8 T13 T69 T44 T66 T13 T69 T29 CUT T57

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place. The Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters or The US Masters (outside of the United States is one of four major championships in men's The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the US The Open Championship, or simply The Open (often referred to as the British Open outside the UK) is the oldest of the four major championships The PGA Championship (sometimes referred to as the US PGA Championship outside of North America is an annual Golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America The Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters or The US Masters (outside of the United States is one of four major championships in men's The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the US The Open Championship, or simply The Open (often referred to as the British Open outside the UK) is the oldest of the four major championships The PGA Championship (sometimes referred to as the US PGA Championship outside of North America is an annual Golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Trivia

Stewart appeared on episode number 169/7. 18 titled Futile Attraction of the hit sitcom Home Improvement. It aired on March 10, 1998 and featured Stewart as himself.

See also

References

  1. ^ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking
  2. ^ The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations, ed. This is a list of golfers who have won five or more official money events on the PGA Tour. Jim Apfelbaum. 2007.

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