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David Duval

Personal Information
Birth:	November 9, 1971, Jacksonville, Florida
Height:	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Nationality:	United States
Residence:	Denver, Colorado
Career
College:	Georgia Tech
Turned Professional:	1993
Current Tour:	PGA Tour (joined 1995)
Professional wins:	19 (PGA Tour 13; others 6)
Majors:	British Open 2001
Awards:	Byron Nelson Award 1998 Vardon Trophy 1998 PGA Tour Money Winner 1998

David Robert Duval (born November 9, 1971) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.

Contents 1 Background and career 1.1 Amateur career 1.2 Professional career 2 Major Championships 2.1 Wins (1) 2.2 Results timeline 3 PGA Tour wins (13) 4 Other wins (6) 5 See also 6 External links

Duval was born in Jacksonville, Florida. The son of current Champions Tour player Bob Duval, he graduated from the Episcopal High School of Jacksonville. He was the U.S. Junior Amateur champion in 1989. He continued his amateur career at Georgia Tech, where he was a four-time All-American, two-time ACC Player of the Year, and 1993 National Player of the Year. After two years on the Nike Tour, he earned his PGA TOUR card in 1995.

Success came quickly, as Duval posted seven second place finishes on the PGA Tour from 1995 to 1997, qualifying for the 1996 President's Cup and posting a 4-0-0 record for the victorious American team. But a PGA Tour victory eluded him until he won the Michelob Championship at Kingsmill in October, 1997, and winning his next two tournaments in the same month, including the 1997 Tour Championship. Altogether, from 1997 and 2001, he won 13 PGA TOUR tournaments, including the 1997 Tour Championship and the 1999 Players Championship, as well as the 2001 Dunlop Phoenix Open and the 2000 World Cup (with Tiger Woods) internationally. He also tied for second in both the 1998 and 2001 Masters.

Other career highlights include achieving the number one spot in the Official World Golf Rankings in April 1999 and shooting a 59 in the final round of the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic on the Palmer Course at PGA West in La Quinta, California (doing so in dramatic fashion by making an eagle on the 18th hole). Before 1999, only two other golfers in PGA TOUR history, Al Geiberger and Chip Beck, had posted a 59 in competition and no one had ever done so in a final round. He also played on the victorious 1999 Ryder Cup team, as well as the 2002 team.

After his Open Championship win, Duval entered a downward spiral in form that saw him drop to 80th on the money list in 2002, and 211th in 2003, prompting an extended break from the game. Numerous reasons have been postulated for the decline, including back, wrist, and shoulder problems; private difficulties; and a form of vertigo.

Many commentators believed Duval's career to be over, but he returned to golf in 2004 at the U.S. Open, where he shot 25 over par and missed the cut. David has struggled since his return with his highest results a T-13 at the 2004 Deutsche Bank Championship and a T-16 at the 2006 U.S. Open. He made the cut in only one PGA Tour event in 2005, but did finish in the top ten at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan. While Duval at his peak was viewed as aloof and distant and was not a fan favorite, now galleries sympathize with his plight and root for him to overcome his issues and to experience golfing enjoyment.

Duval had a successful start to the 2006 PGA TOUR season, making the cut in his first two tournaments, as well as a very respectable finish of T-16 at the U.S. Open Championship at Winged Foot Golf Club, where his second round 68 was good enough for a tie as the best round of the tournament. Despite not reaching the same heights in the remaining two majors of the year, his performances continued a general upward trend, with none of the rounds of 80+ that had become so familiar in the previous years.

Year	Championship	54 Holes	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runners Up
2001	The Open Championship	Tied for lead	-10 (69-73-65-67=274)	3 strokes	Niclas Fasth

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T18	CUT	T2	T6
U.S. Open	T56	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	T28	T67	T48	T7	T7
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T20	T14	T33	T11	T62
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T41	T13	CUT	T10

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
The Masters	T3	2	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT	CUT
U.S. Open	T8	T16	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	T16
The Open Championship	T11	1	T22	CUT	DNP	CUT	T56
PGA Championship	DNP	T10	T34	WD	CUT	CUT	CUT

DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

• 1997 (3) Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic, The TOUR Championship
• 1998 (4) Tucson Chrysler Classic, Shell Houston Open, NEC World Series of Golf, Michelob Championship at Kingsmill
• 1999 (4) Mercedes Championships, Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, The PLAYERS Championship, BellSouth Classic
• 2000 (1) Buick Challenge
• 2001 (1) The Open Championship

Major championship is shown in bold.

• 1993 Nike Wichita Open, Nike Tour Championship (both Nike Tour)
• 1998 Fred Meyer Challenge (with Jim Furyk - unofficial event)
• 1999 Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout (with Fred Couples - unofficial event)
• 2000 WGC-World Cup (with Tiger Woods - unofficial money)
• 2001 Dunlop Phoenix (Japan Golf Tour)

• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• Longest PGA Tour win streaks

• Official PGA TOUR biography page
• David Duval on About.com
• Results in ranking events for the last two years from the Official World Golf Ranking site

Official World Golf Rankings | World No. 1's in men's golf since 1986.
Severiano Ballesteros | Fred Couples | David Duval | Ernie Els | Nick Faldo | Bernhard Langer | Tom Lehman | Greg Norman | Nick Price | Vijay Singh | Tiger Woods † | Ian Woosnam
† Tiger Woods (USA) is the current World No. 1, and has spent most weeks in that position, currently over 400.