Steve Stricker
| Steve Stricker | |
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| — Golfer — | |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Steven Charles Stricker |
| Nickname | Mr. September, Strick |
| Born |
February 23, 1967 Edgerton, Wisconsin |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg; 14 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Residence | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Spouse | Nicki Tiziani (m. 1993) |
| Children | 2 |
| Career | |
| College | University of Illinois |
| Turned professional | 1990 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour (joined 1994) |
| Professional wins | 22 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 12 |
| Other | 10 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | T6: 2009 |
| U.S. Open | 5th/T5: 1998, 1999 |
| The Open Championship | 4th: 2016 |
| PGA Championship | 2nd: 1998 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year |
2006, 2007 |
| Payne Stewart Award | 2012 |
| Byron Nelson Award | 2013 |
Steven Charles Stricker (born February 23, 1967) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won 12 tournaments on the PGA Tour, including the 2001 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and two FedEx Cup playoff events. His most successful season on tour came in 2009, when he had three tournament victories and finished second on the money list. He has ranked as high as No 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking. He spent 57 consecutive weeks in the world top-10 from August 26, 2007 to September 21, 2008, was there for a further 157 consecutive weeks from May 31, 2009 to May 26, 2012; he has a total of 253 weeks in the top-10.
Stricker was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin. He grew up playing golf at both Lake Ripley Country Club in nearby Cambridge and at the Edgerton Towne Country Club in Edgerton. A 1990 graduate of the University of Illinois, Stricker earned All-American honors as a member of the golf team in 1988 and 1989.
Stricker turned professional in 1990 and began his career on the Canadian Professional Golf Tour, where he won two tournaments. He joined the PGA Tour in 1994. His first success at the top level came in 1996, when Stricker notched two victories (Kemper Open, Motorola Western Open) and seven top ten finishes on his way to finishing fourth on the 1996 PGA Tour money list.
In 1998, Stricker played himself into contention in the final round of the PGA Championship at Sahalee Country Club in Redmond, Washington. Thanks to a back-nine surge, PGA Tour veteran Vijay Singh bested Stricker down the stretch and claimed a two-stroke victory. This runner-up finish remains Stricker's best result in a major championship to date. Stricker has finished inside the top-20 six times at the U.S. Open, with his best finish a fifth-place in the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2. He won his third and most prestigious PGA Tour title at the 2001 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, where he defeated Pierre Fulke 2 and 1 in Australia, to earn the $1,000,000 prize. This was the one and only occasion that the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was played outside of the United States.
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