Curtis Strange
| Curtis Strange | |
|---|---|
| — Golfer — | |
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Curtis Northrup Strange |
| Born |
January 30, 1955 Norfolk, Virginia |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg; 13 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
|
| Spouse | Sarah Strange |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Career | |
| College | Wake Forest University |
| Turned professional | 1976 |
| Current tour(s) | Champions Tour |
| Former tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Professional wins | 28 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 17 |
| Japan Golf Tour | 1 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 2) |
|
| Masters Tournament | T2: 1985 |
| U.S. Open | Won: 1988, 1989 |
| The Open Championship | T13: 1988 |
| PGA Championship | T2: 1989 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 2007 (member page) |
| PGA Tour leading money winner |
1985, 1987, 1988 |
| PGA Player of the Year | 1988 |
Curtis Northrup Strange (born January 30, 1955) is an American professional golfer. He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. He spent over 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between their debut in 1986 and 1990.
Strange and his identical twin brother, Allan, were born in Norfolk, Virginia. His father, a local country club owner, started him in golf at age 7. Strange is a graduate of Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team with Jay Haas and Bob Byman that Golf World has labeled "the greatest of all time".
Strange is considered one of the leading golfers of the 1980s as 16 of his 17 PGA Tour victories took place in that decade. He topped the PGA Tour money list in 1985 and 1987 and in 1988, when he became the first man to win a million dollars in official money on the Tour in a season. His two majors were the 1988 and 1989 U.S. Opens. Strange is one of only two people in the last 83 years who won the U.S. Open two years in a row, Ben Hogan (1950, 1951) being the other.
Strange never won on the PGA Tour again after his 2nd U.S. Open victory. He played on five Ryder Cup teams (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989 and 1995) and captained the team in 2002.
Like Henrik Stenson, Strange was a natural left-hander who played right-handed.
After reaching the age of 50 in January 2005, Strange began play on the Champions Tour, remarking, "I was getting worse and said, 'To hell with it.'" His best finishes thus far are a 3rd-place finish in the 2005 Constellation Energy Classic and a T-5 in the 2005 FedEx Kinko's Classic.
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