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Davis Love III
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Personal information
Full name Davis Milton Love III
Born
(1964-04-13) April 13, 1964 (age 54)
Charlotte, North Carolina
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight 175 lb (79 kg; 12.5 st)
Nationality
 United States
Residence
St. Simons Island, Georgia, U.S.
Spouse Robin Love
Children Alexia, Davis IV
Career
College North Carolina
Turned professional 1985
Current tour(s)
PGA Tour
Champions Tour
Professional wins 37
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 21
Japan Golf Tour 1
Other 15
Best results in major championships
(wins: 1)
Masters Tournament 2nd: 1995, 1999
U.S. Open T2: 1996
The Open Championship T4: 2003
PGA Championship
Won: 1997
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame 2017 (member page)
Payne Stewart Award 2008
Bob Jones Award 2013

Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer who has won 21 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship: the 1997 PGA Championship. He won the Players Championship in 1992 and 2003. He was in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for over 450 weeks, reaching a high ranking of 2nd.[1][2] He captained the U.S. Ryder Cup teams in 2012 and 2016.[3][4] Love was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017.[5]




Contents






  • 1 Background and family


  • 2 Legacy


  • 3 Amateur wins (2)


  • 4 Professional wins (37)


    • 4.1 PGA Tour wins (21)


    • 4.2 Japan Golf Tour wins (1)


    • 4.3 Other wins (15)




  • 5 Major championships


    • 5.1 Wins (1)


    • 5.2 Results timeline


    • 5.3 Summary




  • 6 Results in World Golf Championship events


  • 7 PGA Tour career summary


  • 8 U.S. national team appearances


  • 9 See also


  • 10 References


  • 11 External links





Background and family


Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Davis Love, Jr. and his wife, Helen, a day after his father competed in the final round at the 1964 Masters Tournament. His father, who was a former pro and nationally recognized golf instructor, introduced him to the game. His mother is also an avid low-handicap golfer. His father was killed in a 1988 plane crash.[6][7]


Love attended high school in Brunswick, Georgia, and graduated from its Glynn Academy in 1982. He played college golf at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he was a three-time All-American and all-Atlantic Coast Conference. He won six titles during his collegiate career, including the ACC tournament championship as a sophomore in 1984.[8]


He is a Republican, and has donated money to Johnny Isakson and George W Bush.[9]


Love turned professional in 1985, earning his PGA Tour card in the autumn of 1985, on his first attempt. He quickly established himself on the PGA Tour, winning his first tour event in 1987 at the MCI Heritage Golf Classic, at Harbour Town Golf Links. He would later win this event four more times, setting a record for the most victories in the tournament. Love and Fred Couples won four straight times from 1992–95 for the United States in the World Cup of Golf, a record for this event.


Love was a consistent contender and winner on the PGA Tour in the 1990s and early 2000s, but the most memorable win came at the 1997 PGA Championship, his only major championship victory. It was played at Winged Foot Golf Club near New York City, and just four players in the field finished under-par for the week. Love's winning score was 11-under-par, five strokes better than runner-up Justin Leonard. When Love sank his birdie putt on the final hole of the championship, it was under the arc of a rainbow, which appeared as he walked up to the 18th green. In the telecast, CBS Sports announcer Jim Nantz made the connection between the rainbow and Love's late father, Davis Love, Jr., who was a well-known and beloved figure in the golf world.[10][11]This victory was the last major championship win achieved with a wooden-headed driver.[12]


In 1994, Love founded Love Golf Design, a golf course architecture company, with his younger brother and caddie, Mark Love. The company has been responsible for the design of several courses throughout the southeast United States. Completed in 1997, Ocean Creek is his first signature course and is located on Fripp Island, South Carolina.[13] Love also designed the Dunes course at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, which is ranked among Golf Magazine's Top 100 courses in the world.[14]


In 1997, Love published the book Every Shot I Take, which honors his father's lessons on life and golf, and it received the United States Golf Association's International Book Award.[15] That year, he developed and designed his own golf course in Harnett County, North Carolina. The course, Anderson Creek Club, won an award for "Best New Course in North Carolina" in 2001. He and his wife Robin have two children.[16]


On November 9, 2008, Love earned his 20th PGA Tour win at the Children's Miracle Network Classic, which gave him a lifetime exemption on Tour.


In 2012, Love captained the U.S. Team that lost the 2012 Ryder Cup.


His victory in the 2015 Wyndham Championship—at age 51—made him the third oldest winner in PGA Tour history,[17] trailing only Sam Snead and Art Wall, Jr. The win made Love the oldest PGA Tour winner in the PGA Tour Champions era (since 1980). It also brought Love into select company in another PGA Tour distinction: he became only the third player to win on the tour in four different decades, joining Snead and Raymond Floyd.


After failing to qualify for the FedEx Cup in 2014, Love made his Champions Tour debut at the Pacific Links Hawaii Championship.


Love is the tournament host of the RSM Classic. In 2015, son Davis IV (better known as Dru) earned a sponsor exemption into the event, but missed the cut.


In 2016, Love captained the winning U.S. Team at the 2016 Ryder Cup.


After Davis failed to qualify for the 2017 U.S. Open, he caddied for Dru, who made his professional debut.


On December 16, 2018, Love and his son Dru won the Father/Son Challenge at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida.[18]



Legacy



  • Has a portion of Interstate 95 named after him. In 1998, the segment of I-95 which extends in Georgia from the McIntosh County line to Highway 341 at exit 7A and B was designated the "Davis Love III Highway."

  • Love hit the second-longest drive ever officially recorded in competition play at the Mercedes Championships in 2004. His 476-yard (435 m) drive was still 39 yards (36 m) short of Mike Austin's record.

  • He also has a restaurant named after him in his hometown of Sea Island, Georgia, called the Davis Love Grill.



Amateur wins (2)


  • 1984 North and South Amateur, Middle Atlantic Amateur


Professional wins (37)



PGA Tour wins (21)








Legend
Major championships (1)
Players Championships (2)
Other PGA Tour (18)






































































































































































































No.
Date
Tournament
Winning score
To par
Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up
1
Apr 19, 1987

MCI Heritage Golf Classic
70-67-67-67=271
−13
1 stroke

United States Steve Jones
2
Aug 19, 1990

The International
14 points (8-0-15-14)
3 points

United States Steve Pate, Argentina Eduardo Romero,
Australia Peter Senior
3
Apr 21, 1991

MCI Heritage Golf Classic (2)
65-68-68-70=271
−13
2 strokes

Australia Ian Baker-Finch
4
Mar 29, 1992

The Players Championship
67-68-71-67=273
−15
4 strokes

Australia Ian Baker-Finch, United States Phil Blackmar,
England Nick Faldo, United States Tom Watson
5
Apr 19, 1992

MCI Heritage Golf Classic (3)
67-67-68-67=269
−15
4 strokes

United States Chip Beck
6
Apr 26, 1992

KMart Greater Greensboro Open
71-68-71-62=272
−16
6 strokes

United States John Cook
7
Jan 10, 1993

Infiniti Tournament of Champions
67-67-69-69=272
−16
1 stroke

United States Tom Kite
8
Oct 24, 1993

Las Vegas Invitational
67-66-67-65-66=331
−29
8 strokes

United States Craig Stadler
9
Apr 2, 1995

Freeport-McMoRan Classic
68-69-66-71=274
−14
Playoff

United States Mike Heinen
10
Feb 11, 1996

Buick Invitational
66-70-69-64=269
−19
2 strokes

United States Phil Mickelson
11
Aug 17, 1997

PGA Championship
66-71-66-66=269
−11
5 strokes

United States Justin Leonard
12
Oct 5, 1997

Buick Challenge
67-65-67-68=267
−21
4 strokes

United States Stewart Cink
13
Apr 19, 1998

MCI Classic (4)
67-68-66-65=266
−18
7 strokes

United States Glen Day
14
Feb 4, 2001

AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
71-69-69-63=272
−16
1 stroke

Fiji Vijay Singh
15
Feb 9, 2003

AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (2)
72-67-67-68=274
−14
1 stroke

United States Tom Lehman
16
Mar 30, 2003

The Players Championship (2)
70-67-70-64=271
−17
6 strokes

United States Jay Haas, Republic of Ireland Pádraig Harrington
17
Apr 20, 2003

MCI Heritage (5)
66-69-69-67=271
−13
Playoff

United States Woody Austin
18
Aug 10, 2003

The International (2)
46 points (19-17-5-5=46)
12 points

South Africa Retief Goosen, Fiji Vijay Singh
19
Oct 8, 2006

Chrysler Classic of Greensboro (2)
69-69-68-66=272
−16
2 strokes

United States Jason Bohn
20
Nov 9, 2008

Children's Miracle Network Classic
66-69-64-64=263
−25
1 stroke

United States Tommy Gainey
21
Aug 23, 2015

Wyndham Championship (3)
64-66-69-64=263
−17
1 stroke

United States Jason Gore

PGA Tour playoff record (2–7)









































































No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1

1989

Nestle Invitational

United States Tom Kite
Lost to par on second extra hole
2

1991

NEC World Series of Golf

United States Jim Gallagher, Jr., United States Tom Purtzer
Purtzer won with par on second extra hole
3

1992

Nissan Los Angeles Open

United States Fred Couples
Lost to birdie on second extra hole
4

1995

Freeport-McMoRan Classic

United States Mike Heinen
Won with birdie on second extra hole
5

1996

Buick Challenge

United States Michael Bradley, United States Fred Funk,
United States John Maginnes, United States Len Mattiace
Bradley won with birdie on first extra hole
6
1996

Las Vegas Invitational

United States Tiger Woods
Lost to par on first extra hole
7

2000

GTE Byron Nelson Classic

United States Phil Mickelson, Sweden Jesper Parnevik
Parnevik won with par on third extra hole
Mickelson eliminated with birdie on second hole
8

2001

Buick Invitational

United States Frank Lickliter II, United States Phil Mickelson
Mickelson won with double bogey on third extra hole
Love eliminated with par on second
9

2003

MCI Heritage

United States Woody Austin
Won with birdie on fourth extra hole


Japan Golf Tour wins (1)



  • 1998 The Crowns


Other wins (15)



  • 1990 JCPenney Classic (with Beth Daniel)

  • 1992 Franklin Funds Shark Shootout (with Tom Kite), World Cup of Golf (with Fred Couples), Kapalua International

  • 1993 World Cup of Golf (with Fred Couples)

  • 1994 World Cup of Golf (with Fred Couples)

  • 1995 World Cup of Golf (team event with Fred Couples), World Cup of Golf Individual Trophy, JCPenney Classic (with Beth Daniel)

  • 1997 Lincoln-Mercury Kapalua International

  • 2000 CVS Charity Classic (with Justin Leonard), Williams World Challenge* (December)

  • 2003 Target World Challenge

  • 2012 PNC Father-Son Challenge (with son Davis IV "Dru")

  • 2018 PNC Father-Son Challenge (with son Davis IV "Dru")


* This event was staged twice in 2000 once in January the other in December



Major championships



Wins (1)



















Year Championship 54 holes Winning score Margin Runner-up
1997 PGA Championship Tied for lead −11 (66-71-66-66=269) 5 strokes
United States Justin Leonard


Results timeline






































Tournament
1986
1987
1988
1989

Masters Tournament


CUT


U.S. Open


CUT
T33

The Open Championship

CUT
CUT
T23

PGA Championship
T47
CUT

T17



































































Tournament
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

Masters Tournament

T42
T25
T54
CUT
2
T7
T7
T33
2

U.S. Open

T11
T60
T33
T28
T4
T2
T16
CUT
T12

The Open Championship
CUT
T44
CUT
CUT
T38
T98
CUT
T10
8
T7

PGA Championship
T40
T32
T33
T31
CUT
CUT
CUT

1
T7
T49



































































Tournament
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

Masters Tournament
T7
CUT
T14
T15
T6
CUT
T22
T27



U.S. Open
CUT
T7
T24
CUT
CUT
T6
CUT
CUT
T53


The Open Championship
T11
T21
T14
T4
T5
CUT
CUT
CUT
T19
T27

PGA Championship
T9
T37
T48
CUT
CUT
T4
T34
CUT
CUT
CUT






























































Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Masters Tournament

CUT




T42



U.S. Open
T6
T11
T29







The Open Championship
CUT
T9
CUT







PGA Championship
T55
T72
CUT
CUT
CUT
CUT

CUT
CUT


  Win


  Top 10


  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" indicates a tie for a place



Summary





































































Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 2 0 2 6 10 20 15
U.S. Open 0 1 0 2 5 10 23 16
The Open Championship 0 0 0 2 6 11 26 15
PGA Championship 1 0 0 2 4 5 31 16
Totals 1 3 0 8 21 36 100 62


  • Most consecutive cuts made – 8 (2001 U.S. Open – 2003 Masters)

  • Longest streak of top-10s – 3 (1998 Open Championship – 1999 Masters)



Results in World Golf Championship events












































































































Tournament 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Match Play
R64
4

R32
R32
2
R16
2
R64

R32








Cadillac Championship
T16

NT1
8
T40
T41
T11

WD

T28








Bridgestone Invitational
T10
35
T5
T11
3
T4
T13
T4
T6

T19






WD

HSBC Champions



















1Cancelled due to 9/11



  Top 10


  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play

"T" = Tied

WD = Withdrew

NT = No tournament

Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.



PGA Tour career summary



























































































































































































































Season Wins (majors) Earnings ($) Rank
1985 0 0 -
1986 0 113,245 77
1987 1 297,378 33
1988 0 156,068 75
1989 0 278,760 44
1990 1 537,172 20
1991 1 686,361 8
1992 3 1,191,630 2
1993 2 777,059 12
1994 0 474,219 33
1995 1 1,111,999 6
1996 1 1,211,139 7
1997 2 (1) 1,635,953 3
1998 1 1,541,152 11
1999 0 2,475,328 3
2000 0 2,337,765 9
2001 1 3,169,463 5
2002 0 2,056,160 21
2003 4 6,081,896 3
2004 0 3,075,092 10
2005 0 2,658,779 13
2006 1 2,747,206 16
2007 0 1,016,489 96
2008 1 1,695,237 48
2009 0 1,622,401 52
2010 0 1,214,472 73
2011 0 1,056,300 88
2012 0 989,753 100
2013 0 303,470 165
2014 0 284,800 173
2015 1 1,263,596 75
2016 0 222,422 189
2017 0 257,270 187
2018 0 97,920
209
Career* 21 (1) 44,637,954
10

*As of the 2018 season.



U.S. national team appearances


Amateur



  • Walker Cup: 1985 (winners)

Professional




  • Dunhill Cup: 1992


  • World Cup: 1992 (winners), 1993 (winners), 1994 (winners), 1995 (winners), 1997


  • Ryder Cup: 1993 (winners), 1995, 1997, 1999 (winners), 2002, 2004, 2012 (non-playing captain), 2016 (non-playing captain, winners)


  • Presidents Cup: 1994 (winners), 1996 (winners), 1998, 2000 (winners), 2003 (tie), 2005 (winners)


  • Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (representing PGA Tour): 1996 (winners), 1998, 2012 (winners)



See also



  • List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins

  • List of men's major championships winning golfers

  • List of golfers with most wins in one PGA Tour event



References





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  17. ^ McCreary, Joedy. "Wyndham: Love Wins, Tiger's season ends". PGA. Associated Press. Retrieved August 23, 2015.


  18. ^ Strege, John (December 16, 2018). "Davis Love III and son Dru shoot 56 to win PNC Father Son Challenge by three". Golf Digest. Retrieved December 17, 2018.




External links







  • Official website


  • Davis Love III at the PGA Tour official site


  • Davis Love III at the Japan Golf Tour official site


  • Davis Love III at the Official World Golf Ranking official site












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