Tom Purtzer Career Highlights

All Stats Taken from PGA Tour Web Site

PGA Tour winner in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s

Five-time winner on the PGA TOUR, including the 1991 NEC World Series of Golf

Over $11 million in career earnings in professional golf – in top 35 of all time

57 Top-ten finishes in career

First-round leader at the 2008 MasterCard Championship at Hualalai with a 10-under 62.

Claimed the Driving Distance title in 2008 for the fourth time on the Champions Tour and second year in succession, averaging 295.5 yards per tee shot.

Four-time winner on the Champions Tour, including the 2007 ATT Champions

181 out of 186 cuts made on the Champions Tour

Defeated Loren Roberts in a four-hole playoff at the 2007 AT&T Champions Classic at Valencia CC in Valencia, CA. Rolled in a 17-foot birdie putt on the fourth hole to end the longest playoff on the Champions Tour since 2002.

Tour leader in Driving Distance five of last six years on the Champions Tour

In 2007, led tour in both driving distance (297.6 yards) and in Greens in Regulation (76.24%)

Tour leading 17 eagles in 2005 as well as longest drive of season – 383 yards at the MasterCard Championship

Tied course record with a 63 at the 2006 3M Championship where he led from start to finish

Rallied on the weekend at Oak Hills with rounds of 66-63. His 13-under 129 total equaled Champions Tour-best for last 36 holes in 2005

Won Australian PGA Seniors tournament in 2005 by five strokes

Tied the Champions Tour’s all-time record and set a course record with an 11-under par 60 (nine birdies and an eagle) in the first round, and went on to win the 2003 Toshiba Senior Classic with birdies on two of the last four holes

Eagled the last hole with a 58-foot putt to win the SBC Classic in 2003. Became the first player to make an eagle on the final hole and win an event since Sammy Rachels did so at the 2001 Transamerica.

Routinely described as having the “sweetest” swing on tour