Corey Pavin

Corey Pavin
— Golfer —

Personal information
Full name	Corey Allen Pavin
Nickname	Bulldog^[1]
Born	(1959-11-16) November 16, 1959 Oxnard, California
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight	155 lb (70 kg; 11.1 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Dallas, Texas
Spouse	Shannon Healy (divorced) Lisa Nguyen (2003-present)
Career
College	UCLA
Turned professional	1982
Current tour(s)	Champions Tour (joined 2010)
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour (joined 1984)
Professional wins	28
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	15
European Tour	1
Japan Golf Tour	2
PGA Tour of Australasia	2
PGA Tour Champions	1
Best results in major championships (wins: 1)
Masters Tournament	3rd: 1992
U.S. Open	Won: 1995
The Open Championship	T4: 1993
PGA Championship	2nd: 1994
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour leading money winner	1991
PGA Player of the Year	1991

Corey Allen Pavin (born November 16, 1959) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. He spent over 150 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1986 and 1997.^[2]

Life and career

Pavin was born in Oxnard, California, the son of Barbara and Jack Pavin.^[3] He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).^[4] He won two gold medals at the 1981 Maccabiah Games, the Jewish Olympics in Israel,^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] and turned professional the following year. He quickly established himself in the sport, with three international victories in 1983, and his first PGA Tour victory at the 1984 Houston Coca-Cola Open.

He won at least one event on either the PGA Tour or the international tour nearly every year for the next decade, and topped the PGA Tour's money list in 1991, when he was the last man to achieve this without winning at least one million dollars in prize money. Pavin's success culminated in his only major victory, the 1995 U.S. Open. Rather than marking a move to a new level of achievement, however, this was soon followed by a long slide down the world rankings from a high ranking of 5th. After Pavin won the Bank of America Colonial in 1996, he did not win another PGA Tour tournament for ten years. His 89th-place finish on the 2004 money list was the first time he had made the top one hundred since 1998. Pavin finally won his 15th career title in 2006 at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee, ending a streak of 242 consecutive tournaments without a win.

Pavin played on three Ryder Cup teams: 1991, 1993, and 1995.

In 2002 he was named to the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame.^[9]

On July 27, 2006, during the first round of what would become his 15th tour title, Pavin broke the record for the fewest number of strokes needed to complete nine holes at a PGA Tour event, with an 8-under par score of 26. The previous record of 27 strokes was held by Mike Souchak, Andy North, Billy Mayfair and Robert Gamez, with Mayfair and Gamez' scores being 9-under par.^[10] His 36-hole total of 125 also tied the record for fewest shots taken in the first 36 holes of a PGA Tour event held by Tom Lehman, Mark Calcavecchia, and Tiger Woods.^[11]

Pavin was the only top Jewish player on the tour until 1991.^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16] In that year, he converted to Christianity.^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21] He was named the 117th-greatest Jewish athlete in the 2007 book The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes, by Peter S. Horvitz.^[22]

In December 2008, Pavin was named captain for the 2010 Ryder Cup U.S. team by the PGA of America.^[23] In October 2010, the U.S. Ryder Cup team lost 13½ to 14½, against the European side.^[24]

Pavin began playing on the Champions Tour in 2010. In June 2010, he lost in a sudden death playoff to Bubba Watson at the Travelers Championship on the PGA Tour. In his 35th start, Pavin won his maiden Champions Tour event in February 2012 at the Allianz Championship. He defeated Peter Senior at the first sudden death playoff hole with a birdie to take the title, after having finished regulation play at 11 under.

Pavin made a cameo appearance playing himself in the 1996 movie Tin Cup starring Kevin Costner. In the movie, Pavin tells Fred Couples, "I can't believe that the name below mine on the U.S. Open trophy might be Tin Cup." Pavin was married to Shannon Healy, with whom he has two children. He married Lisa Nguyen in 2003.^[25]^[26]

Amateur wins (1)

1981 North and South Amateur

Professional wins (28)

PGA Tour wins (15)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Apr 29, 1984	Houston Coca-Cola Open	−10 (70-68-68-68=274)	1 stroke	Buddy Gardner
2	May 19, 1985	Colonial National Invitation	−14 (66-64-68-68=266)	4 strokes	Bob Murphy
3	Feb 16, 1986	Hawaiian Open	−16 (67-67-72-66=272)	2 strokes	Paul Azinger
4	Sep 21, 1986	Greater Milwaukee Open	−16 (66-72-67-67=272)	Playoff	Dave Barr
5	Jan 18, 1987	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	−19 (72-71-65-66-67=341)	1 stroke	Bernhard Langer
6	Feb 8, 1987	Hawaiian Open (2)	−18 (65-75-66-64=270)	Playoff	Craig Stadler
7	Oct 16, 1988	Texas Open	−21 (64-63-66-66=259)	8 strokes	Robert Wrenn
8	Feb 10, 1991	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic (2)	−29 (65-69-66-66-65=331)	Playoff	Mark O'Meara
9	May 12, 1991	BellSouth Atlanta Golf Classic	−16 (68-67-67-70=272)	Playoff	Steve Pate
10	Mar 15, 1992	Honda Classic	−15 (68-67-70-68=273)	Playoff	Fred Couples
11	Feb 13, 1994	Nissan Los Angeles Open	−13 (67-64-72-68=271)	2 strokes	Fred Couples
12	Feb 26, 1995	Nissan Open (2)	−16 (67-66-68-67=268)	3 strokes	Jay Don Blake, Kenny Perry
13	Jun 18, 1995	U.S. Open	E (72-69-71-68=280)	2 strokes	Greg Norman
14	May 19, 1996	MasterCard Colonial (2)	−8 (69-67-67-69=272)	2 strokes	Jeff Sluman
15	Jul 30, 2006	U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee (2)	−20 (61-64-68-67=260)	2 strokes	Jerry Kelly

PGA Tour playoff record (5–4)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1986	Greater Milwaukee Open	Dave Barr	Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
2	1987	Hawaiian Open	Craig Stadler	Won with birdie on second extra hole
3	1991	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	Mark O'Meara	Won with birdie on first extra hole
4	1991	BellSouth Atlanta Golf Classic	Steve Pate	Won with par on second extra hole
5	1991	Canon Greater Hartford Open	Billy Ray Brown, Rick Fehr	Brown won with birdie on first extra hole
6	1992	Honda Classic	Fred Couples	Won with birdie on second extra hole
7	1992	Southwestern Bell Colonial	Bruce Lietzke	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
8	1995	Kemper Open	Lee Janzen	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
9	2010	Travelers Championship	Scott Verplank, Bubba Watson	Watson won with par on second extra hole Pavin eliminated with par on first hole

European Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	Jul 31, 1983	Lufthansa German Open	−13 (67-71-68-69=275)	3 strokes	Seve Ballesteros, Tony Johnstone

Japan Golf Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	Nov 3, 1985	ABC Cup	−12 (70-68-67-71=276)	Tie	Jet Ozaki
2	Oct 9, 1994	Tokai Classic	−11 (68-69-68-72=277)	1 stroke	Chin-Sheng Hsieh

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

1984 New Zealand Open
1985 New Zealand Open

Other wins (7)

1983 South African PGA Championship, Calberson Classic (Europe – not a European Tour event)
1993 Toyota World Match Play Championship (Europe – then an unofficial event).
1995 Asian Masters, Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa – unofficial event)
1996 Ssang Yong International Challenge (South Korea)
1999 Martel Skins Game (Taiwan)

Champions Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	Feb 12, 2012	Allianz Championship	−11 (64-70-71=205)	Playoff	Peter Senior

Champions Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2012	Allianz Championship	Peter Senior	Won with par on first extra hole
2	2013	Pacific Links Hawai'i Championship	Mark Wiebe	Lost to par on second extra hole

Major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
1995	U.S. Open	3 shot deficit	E (72-69-71-68=280)	2 strokes	Greg Norman

Results timeline

Tournament	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Masters Tournament	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	T25	T11	T27	T42	50
U.S. Open	CUT	T60	CUT	DNP	T9	CUT	DNP	CUT	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	T22	T39	CUT	CUT	T38	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	T20	T6	T21	CUT	T17	CUT

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Masters Tournament	DNP	T22	3	T11	T8	T17	T7	T43	T41	CUT
U.S. Open	T24	T8	CUT	T19	CUT	1	T40	CUT	CUT	T34
The Open Championship	T8	CUT	T34	T4	CUT	T8	T27	T51	CUT	CUT
PGA Championship	T14	T32	T12	CUT	2	CUT	T26	DNP	CUT	T10

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Masters Tournament	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT	T19	T54	CUT	T17	T11	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	CUT	T22	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T49	T62	T63	T19	CUT

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

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	1	1	3	8	16	13
U.S. Open	1	0	0	1	3	8	23	12
The Open Championship	0	0	0	1	3	5	19	10
PGA Championship	0	1	0	1	3	9	21	14
Totals	1	1	1	4	12	30	79	49

Most consecutive cuts made – 7 (1984 Open Championship – 1986 Masters)
Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (1995 U.S. Open – 1995 Open Championship)

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

Walker Cup: 1981 (winners)

Professional

USA vs. Japan: 1982
Nissan Cup: 1985 (winners)
Ryder Cup: 1991 (winners), 1993 (winners), 1995, 2010 (captain)
Presidents Cup: 1994 (winners), 1996 (winners)

References

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↑ "69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking" (PDF). Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
↑ "Obituaries – Kack Pavin; Father of Pro Golfer Corey Pavin". Los Angeles Times. August 15, 1997. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
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↑ Romine, Rich (February 23, 1982). "Pavin Invited to Masters". The Press-Courier. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ Kessel, Yoram (June 29, 1989). "Argentine Golfers Sign Up At The Eleventh Hour". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ "Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame". Vcshf.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
↑ "Pavin shoots 26 on first nine holes, sets PGA record". ESPN. Associated Press. July 28, 2006. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
↑ "Pavin ends 10-year drought with Milwaukee title". PGA Tour. July 30, 2006. Archived from the original on August 5, 2006. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
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↑ "Daylights". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. June 30, 1995. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
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↑ Chandler, Rich (September 14, 2010). "Out of Bounds: Were Pavin's Ryder picks based on religion?". MSNBC. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ Michael Mayo (August 7, 1995). "Pavin Knows His Place". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ "It's Ryder Cup war, and General Monty wants revenge". The Daily Maverick. October 1, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ Reason, Mark (August 2, 2010). "Ryder Cup 2010: Corey Pavin could face dilemma over Tiger Woods". Telegraph. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ Kimball, George (September 29, 2010). "Pavin's good intentions". The Irish Times. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ Horvitz, Peter S. (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. SP Books. p. 71. ISBN 1-56171-907-2.
↑ "Pavin selected as 2010 U.S. Ryder Cup Team captain". PGA of America. Archived from the original on December 17, 2008. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
↑ "Ryder Cup regained by Europe in muddy marathon". The Guardian. October 4, 2010. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
↑ "Corey Pavin To Wed Shannon Healy". The Press-Courier. Oxnard, California. March 28, 1983. p. 8. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
↑ Rubenstein, Lorne (January 19, 2009). "Tough Team To Beat". Golf Digest. Retrieved February 14, 2013.

External links

Corey Pavin at the PGA Tour official site
Corey Pavin at the Japan Golf Tour official site
Corey Pavin at the European Tour official site
Corey Pavin at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

U.S. Open champions

1895 Horace Rawlins 1896 James Foulis 1897 Joe Lloyd 1898 Fred Herd 1899 Willie Smith 1900 Harry Vardon 1901 Willie Anderson† 1902 Laurie Auchterlonie 1903 Willie Anderson† 1904 Willie Anderson 1905 Willie Anderson 1906 Alex Smith 1907 Alec Ross 1908 Fred McLeod† 1909 George Sargent 1910 Alex Smith† 1911 John McDermott† 1912 John McDermott 1913 Francis Ouimet#† 1914‡ Walter Hagen 1915 Jerome Travers# 1916 Chick Evans# 1917–18 Cancelled due to World War I 1919 Walter Hagen† 1920 Ted Ray 1921‡ Jim Barnes 1922 Gene Sarazen 1923 Bobby Jones#† 1924 Cyril Walker 1925 Willie Macfarlane† 1926 Bobby Jones# 1927 Tommy Armour† 1928 Johnny Farrell† 1929 Bobby Jones#† 1930 Bobby Jones# 1931 Billy Burke† 1932 Gene Sarazen 1933 Johnny Goodman# 1934 Olin Dutra 1935 Sam Parks, Jr. 1936 Tony Manero 1937 Ralph Guldahl 1938 Ralph Guldahl 1939 Byron Nelson† 1940 Lawson Little† 1941 Craig Wood 1942–45 Cancelled due to World War II 1946 Lloyd Mangrum† 1947 Lew Worsham† 1948 Ben Hogan 1949 Cary Middlecoff 1950 Ben Hogan† 1951 Ben Hogan 1952 Julius Boros 1953‡ Ben Hogan 1954 Ed Furgol 1955 Jack Fleck† 1956 Cary Middlecoff 1957 Dick Mayer† 1958 Tommy Bolt 1959 Billy Casper 1960 Arnold Palmer 1961 Gene Littler 1962 Jack Nicklaus† 1963 Julius Boros† 1964 Ken Venturi 1965 Gary Player† 1966 Billy Casper† 1967 Jack Nicklaus 1968 Lee Trevino 1969 Orville Moody 1970‡ Tony Jacklin 1971 Lee Trevino† 1972 Jack Nicklaus 1973 Johnny Miller 1974 Hale Irwin 1975 Lou Graham† 1976 Jerry Pate 1977 Hubert Green 1978 Andy North 1979 Hale Irwin 1980 Jack Nicklaus 1981 David Graham 1982 Tom Watson 1983 Larry Nelson 1984 Fuzzy Zoeller† 1985 Andy North 1986 Raymond Floyd 1987 Scott Simpson 1988 Curtis Strange† 1989 Curtis Strange 1990 Hale Irwin† 1991 Payne Stewart† 1992 Tom Kite 1993 Lee Janzen 1994 Ernie Els† 1995 Corey Pavin 1996 Steve Jones 1997 Ernie Els 1998 Lee Janzen 1999 Payne Stewart 2000‡ Tiger Woods 2001 Retief Goosen† 2002‡ Tiger Woods 2003 Jim Furyk 2004 Retief Goosen 2005 Michael Campbell 2006 Geoff Ogilvy 2007 Ángel Cabrera 2008 Tiger Woods† 2009 Lucas Glover 2010 Graeme McDowell 2011‡ Rory McIlroy 2012 Webb Simpson 2013 Justin Rose 2014‡ Martin Kaymer 2015 Jordan Spieth 2016 Dustin Johnson

† indicates the event was won in a playoff; ‡ indicates the event was won wire-to-wire; # indicates the event was won by an amateur

PGA and PGA Tour Players of the Year

PGA Players of the Year

PGA Tour Players of the Year

Corey Pavin in the Ryder Cup

American Ryder Cup captains

United States Ryder Cup team – 1991

Paul Azinger Chip Beck Mark Calcavecchia Fred Couples Raymond Floyd Hale Irwin Wayne Levi Mark O'Meara Steve Pate Corey Pavin Payne Stewart Lanny Wadkins Dave Stockton (non-playing captain)

Won: 14.5 – 13.5

United States Ryder Cup team – 1993

Paul Azinger Chip Beck John Cook Fred Couples Raymond Floyd Jim Gallagher, Jr. Lee Janzen Tom Kite Davis Love III Corey Pavin Payne Stewart Lanny Wadkins Tom Watson (non-playing captain)

Won: 15 – 13

United States Ryder Cup team – 1995

Fred Couples Ben Crenshaw Brad Faxon Jay Haas Peter Jacobsen Tom Lehman Davis Love III Jeff Maggert Phil Mickelson Corey Pavin Loren Roberts Curtis Strange Lanny Wadkins (non-playing captain)

Lost: 13.5 – 14.5

United States Ryder Cup team – 2010

Stewart Cink Rickie Fowler Jim Furyk Dustin Johnson Zach Johnson Matt Kuchar Hunter Mahan Phil Mickelson Jeff Overton Steve Stricker Bubba Watson Tiger Woods Corey Pavin (non-playing captain)

Lost: 13.5 – 14.5

Corey Pavin in the Presidents Cup

United States Presidents Cup team – 1994

Fred Couples Jim Gallagher, Jr. Jay Haas Scott Hoch John Huston Tom Lehman Davis Love III Jeff Maggert Phil Mickelson Corey Pavin Loren Roberts Hale Irwin (non-playing captain)

Won: 20 – 12

United States Presidents Cup team – 1996

Mark Brooks Fred Couples David Duval Scott Hoch Tom Lehman Justin Leonard Davis Love III Mark O'Meara Phil Mickelson Corey Pavin Kenny Perry Steve Stricker Arnold Palmer (non-playing captain)

Won: 16.5 – 15.5

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