Hale Irwin
| Hale Irwin | |
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Irwin in 1986
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Hale S. Irwin |
| Born |
June 3, 1945 Joplin, Missouri |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Spouse | Sally Irwin |
| Career | |
| College | University of Colorado |
| Turned professional | 1968 |
| Current tour(s) |
PGA Tour Champions Tour |
| Professional wins | 87 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 20 |
| Japan Golf Tour | 1 |
| PGA Tour Champions | 45 (1st all time) |
| Other | 9 (regular) 12 (senior) |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 3) |
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| Masters Tournament | T4: 1974, 1975 |
| U.S. Open | Won: 1974, 1979, 1990 |
| The Open Championship | T2: 1983 |
| PGA Championship | T5: 1975 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 1992 (member page) |
| Champions Tour leading money winner |
1997, 1998, 2002 |
| Champions Tour Player of the Year |
1997, 1998, 2002 |
| Champions Tour Rookie of the Year |
1995 |
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Byron Nelson Award (Champions Tour) |
1996, 1997, 1998, 2002 |
| Charles Schwab Cup | 2002, 2004 |
Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American professional golfer. He was one of the world's leading golfers from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He is one of the few players in history to win three U.S. Opens, becoming the oldest ever U.S. Open champion in 1990 at the age of 45.
Along with Gary Player, David Graham, Bernhard Langer and Justin Rose, Irwin is one of five golfers to win official tournaments on all six continents on which golf is played. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.
Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri, and raised in Baxter Springs, Kansas and Boulder, Colorado. His father introduced him to the game of golf when he was 4 years old. He broke 70 for the first time at the age of 14. Irwin was a star athlete in football, baseball, and golf at Boulder High School and graduated in 1963. Irwin then attended the University of Colorado, where he was a two-time All-Big Eight defensive back, as well as an academic All-American in football. He won the individual NCAA Division I Championship in golf in his senior year in 1967 and turned professional the following year.
Irwin had 20 victories on the PGA Tour beginning with the 1971 Sea Pines Heritage Classic and finishing with the 1994 MCI Heritage Golf Classic, and won prize money of just under six million dollars. His 1994 Heritage win at the age of nearly 49 made him one of the oldest winners in Tour history.
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