Web Quotableonline.com Frasescelebres.org Greatbookscollection.org

Hale Irwin (born June 3, 1945 in Joplin, Missouri)
is an United States|American golfer. 

==Career summary==
Irwin graduated from the University of Colorado at
Boulder|University of Colorado in 1967, where he
not only played golf, but was a defensive back on
the American football|football team. He won the
individual NCAA Division I Men's Golf
Championships|NCAA Division I Championship 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 three major championship titles were
the 1974, 1979, and 1990 US Open (golf)|US Opens.
His 1998 win at the U.S. Senior Open came at the
Riviera Country Club.

Irwin qualified to play on the over 50s Champions
Tour (formerly the Senior PGA Tour) in 1995 and
has enjoyed even greater success at this level
than he did on the PGA Tour. As at 5 July 2005 he
had won forty two Champions Tour titles and topped
the all time Champions Tour
http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/s/2005/110
money list with earnings of over twenty one
million dollars.

==PGA Tour wins==
*1971  Sea Pines Heritage Classic
*1973  Sea Pines Heritage Classic
*1974  U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open
*1975  Atlanta Classic, Western Open
*1976  Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open, Bay Hill
Invitational|Florida Citrus Open
*1977  Atlanta Classic, Colgate Hall of Fame Golf
Classic, San Antonio Texas Open
*1979  U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open
*1981  Hawaiian Open, Buick Open
*1982  Honda Classic|Honda Inverrary Classic
*1983  Memorial Tournament
*1984  AT&T Pro-Am|Bing Crosby National Pro-Am
*1985  Memorial Tournament
*1990  U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open, Westchester
Classic|Buick Classic
*1994  MCI Heritage Golf Classic

Major championships are shown in bold.

==Other regular career wins==
*1974 HSBC World Match Play
Championship|Piccadilly World Match Play 
*1975 HSBC World Match Play
Championship|Piccadilly World Match Play 
*1978 Australian PGA 
*1979 South African PGA, WGC-World Cup|World Cup
(individual), WGC-World Cup|World Cup (team - with
John Mahaffey) 
*1981 Bridgestone Classic 
*1982 Brazilian Open 
*1986 Bahamas Classic 
*1987 Fila Classic

==Champions Tour wins==
*1995  Ameritech Senior Open,  Vantage
Championship  
*1996  American Express Invitational,  PGA
Seniors' Championship  
*1997  MasterCard Championship,  LG Championship, 
PGA Seniors' Championship,  Las Vegas Senior
Classic,  Burnet Senior Classic,  BankBoston
Classic,  Boone Valley Classic,  Vantage
Championship,  Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali
Classic  
*1998  Toshiba Senior Classic,  PGA Seniors'
Championship,  Las Vegas Senior Classic, 
Ameritech Senior Open,  U.S. Senior Open, 
BankBoston Classic,  Energizer Senior Tour
Championship  
*1999  Nationwide Championship,  Boone Valley
Classic,  Ford Senior Players Championship, 
Ameritech Senior Open,  Coldwell Banker Burnet
Classic  
*2000  Nationwide Championship,  BellSouth Senior
Classic at Opryland,  U.S. Senior Open,  EMC
Kaanapali Classic  
*2001  Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley,  Bruno's
Memorial Classic,  Turtle Bay Championship  
*2002  ACE Group Classic,  Toshiba Senior Classic,
 3M Championship,  Turtle Bay Championship  
*2003  Kinko's Classic of Austin,  Turtle Bay
Championship  
*2004  Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf,  Senior PGA
Championship  
*2005  Turtle Bay Championship,  Outback
Steakhouse Pro-Am

Senior majors are shown in bold.

==Other senior career wins==
*1996 Lexus Challenge (with Sean Connery) 
*1997 Senior Slam at Los Cabos 
*1998 Senior Match Play Challenge 
*1999 Senior Skins Game, Wendy's Three-Tour
Challenge (with Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson) 
*2000 Our Lucaya Senior Slam 
*2001 Senior Skins Game 
*2002 Senior Skins Game

==See also==
*Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
*Golfers with most Champions Tour wins
*Golfers with most Champions Tour major
championship wins

==External Links==
*http://www.pgatour.com/players/bio/132190 Profile
on the PGA Tour's website
*http://www.golfstarsonline.com/I/Hale_Irwin/ Golf
Stars Online - links to features and profiles
*http://golf.about.com/od/golfersmen/p/hale_irwin.
htm Hale Irwin on about.com