Fred Couples
| Fred Couples | |
|---|---|
| — Golfer — | |
Couples in July 2008
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Frederick Steven Couples |
| Nickname | Boom Boom |
| Born |
October 3, 1959 Seattle, Washington |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Residence | Newport Beach, California |
| Spouse | Deborah Couples (m. 1981–1993) Thais Baker (m. 1998–2009) |
| Career | |
| College | University of Houston |
| Turned professional | 1980 |
| Current tour(s) |
PGA Tour (joined 1982) Champions Tour (joined 2010) |
| Professional wins | 63 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 15 |
| European Tour | 3 |
| PGA Tour Champions | 11 |
| Other | 35 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 1) |
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| Masters Tournament | Won: 1992 |
| U.S. Open | T3: 1991 |
| The Open Championship | T3: 1991, 2005 |
| PGA Championship | 2nd: 1990 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 2013 (member page) |
| PGA Tour Player of the Year |
1991, 1992 |
| PGA Player of the Year | 1992 |
| Vardon Trophy | 1991, 1992 |
| Byron Nelson Award | 1991, 1992 |
| PGA Tour leading money winner |
1992 |
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Byron Nelson Award (Champions Tour) |
2010, 2012, 2013 |
Frederick Steven "Fred" Couples (born October 3, 1959) is an American professional golfer who competes on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. A former World No. 1, he has won 57 professional tournaments, most notably the 1992 Masters Tournament and the 1984 and 1996 Players Championship. In August 2011 he won his maiden senior major at the Senior Players Championship and followed this up in July 2012 when he won the Senior British Open Championship. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2013.
Couples was born in Seattle, Washington, to Tom and Violet (née Sobich) Couples. His paternal grandparents immigrated from Italy and changed the family name from "Coppola" to "Couples" to make it sound less ethnic, and his mother was of Croatian descent.
His father was a groundskeeper for the Seattle Parks Department and the family, which included brother Tom, Jr., and sister Cindy, lived in a modest house on Beacon Hill near the city's Jefferson Park golf course, where Couples developed his signature loose, rhythmic swing in order to gain enough distance to keep up with the older children.
Couples attended O'Dea High School in Seattle and graduated in 1977. He accepted a golf scholarship to the University of Houston. As a member of the Houston Cougars men's golf team, he roomed with Blaine McCallister, another future PGA Tour player, and future CBS television broadcaster Jim Nantz.
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