Hal Sutton
| Hal Sutton | |
|---|---|
| — Golfer — | |
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Hal Evan Sutton |
| Born |
April 28, 1958 Shreveport, Louisiana |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 210 lb (95 kg; 15 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
|
| Residence | Bossier City, Louisiana |
| Spouse | Stacy Sutton |
| Children | Holt, Sadie, Samantha, Sara |
| Career | |
| College | Centenary College |
| Turned professional | 1981 |
| Current tour(s) | Champions Tour |
| Former tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Professional wins | 15 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 14 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 1) |
|
| Masters Tournament | 10th: 2000 |
| U.S. Open | T4: 1986 |
| The Open Championship | T10: 1999 |
| PGA Championship | Won: 1983 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| PGA Player of the Year | 1983 |
| PGA Tour leading money winner |
1983 |
| PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year |
1994 |
| Payne Stewart Award | 2007 |
Hal Evan Sutton (born April 28, 1958) is an American professional golfer who had 14 victories on the PGA Tour, including one major, the 1983 PGA Championship.
Sutton was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. A promising golfer at the Centenary College of Louisiana, he was named Golf Magazine's 1980 College Player of the Year. At Centenary, Sutton won 14 golf tournaments, was an All American, led the Gents to the NCAA Tournament, and finished ninth nationally. He quickly established himself as one of the PGA Tour's top young stars in the early 1980s. His first win was at the 1982 Walt Disney World Golf Classic in a playoff with Bill Britton after the two had tied at 19-under-par 269 after 72 holes.
The biggest win of Sutton's career – and his only major championship – came a year later at the 1983 PGA Championship. He entered into a long drought shortly thereafter, going from 1987 to 1994 without a PGA Tour victory. He nearly lost his tour card late in the string, maintaining it only by using a one-time-only exemption for players in the top 50 of the all-time PGA Tour career money list. After this disappointing eight years, Sutton rejuvenated his career in 1995 with a win at the B.C. Open.
In 1998, Sutton won the Valero Texas Open and the prestigious Tour Championship to finish fifth on the PGA Tour money list. Other than his spectacular 1983 season, Sutton had his best year to date in 2000 by beating Tiger Woods in the final group of The Players Championship to win. He also had an additional win to that—the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic two starts later. He would go on to finish fourth on the PGA Tour money list. In 2001, Sutton made the cut in 22 of 26 events with one victory at the Shell Houston Open at TPC at The Woodlands and a season winnings total of $1.7 million.
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