Corey Pavin
| Corey Pavin | |
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| — Golfer — | |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Corey Allen Pavin |
| Nickname | Bulldog |
| Born |
November 16, 1959 Oxnard, California |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Weight | 155 lb (70 kg; 11.1 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| 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) |
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| 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.
Pavin was born in Oxnard, California, the son of Barbara and Jack Pavin. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He won two gold medals at the 1981 Maccabiah Games, the Jewish Olympics in Israel, 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.
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