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Dave Stockton (Born November 2, 1941 San
Bernardino, California) is an United
States|American golfer who was prominent on the
PGA Tour from the middle of the 1960s to the late
1970s.

==Career Summary==

Stockton attended University of Southern
California and turned professional in 1964. His
first PGA Tour win came at the 1967 Colonial
National Invitational. His career year was perhaps
1973, when he won three times, but his two majors,
both of which were PGA Championships, came in 1970
and 1976. In 1970 he played the final round with
Arnold Palmer, shooting an erratic seventy-three
which included an eagle and a double-bogey back to
back on the seventh and the eighth, and a making a
birdie on the thirteenth despite putting a ball in
the water. In the end though, this was good enough
for a two stroke victory over Palmer and Bob
Murphy. Due to rain the 1976 PGA was the first
ever where the final round had to be delayed until
Monday. Stockton sank a ten foot birdie putt at
the seventy-second hole to avoid having to
continue into a three-man playoff with Raymond
Floyd and Don January.

Stockton joined the PGA Senior Tour (now the
Champions Tour) in 1991 and enjoyed continued
success, topping the Senior Tour money list in
1993 and 1994. His fourteen senior titles include
three senior majors, the 1992 and 1994 Senior
Players Championships and the 1996 U.S. Senior
Open. He remains competitive in his sixties,
finishing in the Top 50 on the Champions Tour
money list for a thiteenth consecutive season in
2004.

Stockton played for the U.S. team in the Ryder Cup
in 1971 and 1977. He was the U.S.'s victorious non
playing captain in the 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah
Island.

==PGA Tour wins==

*1967 Colonial National Invitation  
*1968 Cleveland Open Invitational,  Greater
Milwaukee Open  
*1970 PGA Championship  
*1971 Massachusetts Classic  
*1973 Greater Milwaukee Open  
*1974 Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open,  Quad Cities
Open,  Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open  
*1976 PGA Championship

Major championships shown in bold.

==Senior PGA Tour wins==

*1992  Mazda Presents The Senior Players
Championship  
*1993  Murata Reunion Pro-Am,  Southwestern Bell
Classic,  Franklin Quest Championship,  GTE
Northwest Classic,  The Transamerica  
*1994  Nationwide Championship,  Ford Senior
Players Championship,  Burnet Senior Classic  
*1995  GTE Suncoast Classic,  Quicksilver Classic 

*1996  U.S. Senior Open,  First of America Classic
 
*1997  Franklin Quest Championship

Senior majors shown in bold.

==External links==

http://www.davestockton.com/ Official site

http://www.pgatour.com/players/bio/132564 Profile
on the PGA Tour's official site