Gene Sauers
| Gene Sauers | |
|---|---|
| — Golfer — | |
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Gene Craig Sauers |
| Born |
August 22, 1962 Savannah, Georgia |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Weight | 150 lb (68 kg; 11 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
|
| Career | |
| College | Georgia Southern |
| Turned professional | 1984 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour Champions |
| Former tour(s) |
PGA Tour Web.com Tour |
| Professional wins | 9 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 3 |
| Web.com Tour | 1 |
| PGA Tour Champions | 1 |
| European Senior Tour | 1 |
| Best results in major championships |
|
| Masters Tournament | T33: 1987 |
| U.S. Open | T58: 1987 |
| The Open Championship | T52: 1989 |
| PGA Championship | T2: 1992 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year |
2002 |
Gene Craig Sauers (born August 22, 1962) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the PGA Tour Champions. He had three wins on the PGA Tour and overcame a deadly skin condition that kept him off the golf course for five years. He won the U.S. Senior Open in 2016, a senior major championship .
Born in Savannah, Georgia, Sauers started him playing golf at the age of nine with his father. He attended Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, turned pro, and joined the PGA Tour in 1984.
Sauers has four dozen top-10 finishes in PGA Tour events including three official wins. His first win was in 1986 at the Bank of Boston Classic; his second came at the 1989 Hawaiian Open; his third, which came after a 13-year hiatus, was in 2002 at the final edition of the Air Canada Championship in British Columbia. He also won the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic in Mississippi in 1990, opposite the Masters in April, before it was an official money event.
He finished two other tournaments in a tie for first place at the end of regulation: the 1992 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, which he lost on the fourth extra hole of a playoff to John Cook, and the St. Jude Classic in 1994, which he and Hal Sutton lost to Tour rookie Dicky Pride. After his win in Canada, Sauers received the PGA Comeback Player of the Year award in 2002. His best finish in a major was a tie for second at the PGA Championship in 1992.
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