er. He is a member of the
. He spent over 200 weeks in the top-10 of the
. He is a graduate of
. Strange attended
victories took place in that decade. He topped the PGA Tour money list in 1985 and 1987 and in 1988, when he became the first man to win a million dollars in official money on the Tour in a season. His two
At this point it seemed that Strange was on the verge of building a truly great career, but oddly he never won on the PGA Tour again after his 2nd U.S. Open victory. He played on five
teams (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, and 1995) and captained the team in 2002. After reaching the age of 50 in January 2005, Strange began play on the
, remarking, "I was getting worse and said, 'To hell with it.'" His best finishes thus far are a 3rd place finish in the 2005
In May 2009, he was named to the Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame, which honors athletes, coaches and administrators who contributed to sports in southeastern Virginia.
| No. |
Date |
Tournament |
Winning Score |
Margin of
Victory |
Runner(s)-up |
| 1 |
Oct 21, 1979 The 1979 PGA Tour season was played from January 11 to October 28. The season consisted of 44 official money events. Tom Watson won the most tournaments, five, and there were 11 first-time winners. The tournament results and award winners are listed below....
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Pensacola Open This article is about the former PGA Tour event, for information on the former Nationwide Tour event, see Pensacola Classic.The Pensacola Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour...
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-17 (69-71-62-69=271) |
1 stroke |
USA Billy Kratzert William August "Billy" Kratzert is an American professional golfer and sportscaster, who has played on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour....
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| 2 |
May 4, 1980 The 1980 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 19. The season consisted of 44 official money events. Tom Watson won the most tournaments, seven, and there were 11 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The...
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Michelob-Houston Open |
-22 (66-63-66-71=266) |
Playoff |
USA Lee Trevino Lee Buck Trevino is an American professional golfer. He is an icon for Mexican Americans, and is often referred to as "The Merry Mex" and "Supermex".-Early life:...
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| 3 |
Aug 17, 1980 The 1980 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 19. The season consisted of 44 official money events. Tom Watson won the most tournaments, seven, and there were 11 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The...
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Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic |
-15 (69-65-70-69=273) |
2 strokes |
USA Gibby Gilbert C.L. "Gibby" Gilbert II is an American professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour....
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| 4 |
Aug 21, 1983 The 1983 PGA Tour season was played from January 6 to October 30. The season consisted of 43 official money golf tournaments. Seve Ballesteros, Jim Colbert, Mark McCumber, Gil Morgan, Calvin Peete, Hal Sutton, Lanny Wadkins, and Fuzzy Zoeller won the most tournaments, two, and there were 10...
|
Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open |
-20 (67-62-69-68=268) |
1 stroke |
USA Jay Haas Jay Dean Haas is an American professional golfer.Haas was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Belleville, Illinois. He attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team of the middle 1970s with Curtis Strange and Bob Byman that Golf World has called "the...
, USA Jack Renner |
| 5 |
Sep 30, 1984 The 1984 PGA Tour season was played from January 5 to October 30. The season consisted of 43 official money events. Denis Watson and Tom Watson won the most tournaments, three, and there were seven first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament...
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LaJet Golf Classic |
-15 (68-67-67-71=273) |
2 strokes |
USA Mark O'MearaMark Francis O'Meara is an American professional golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s...
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| 6 |
Mar 3, 1985 The 1985 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 27. The season consisted of 43 official money events. Curtis Strange and Lanny Wadkins won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed...
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Honda Classic The Honda Classic is a PGA Tour golf tournament that is played each March in Florida. It was founded in 1972 as the Jackie Gleason's Inverrary Classic. In 1981, American Motors backed the tournament. Since 1982, Honda has been the title sponsor....
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-13 (67-64-70-74=275) |
Playoff |
USA Peter Jacobsen Peter Erling Jacobsen is an American professional golfer. He has won seven events on the PGA Tour and two events on the Champions Tour, both majors.-Personal life:...
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| 7 |
Mar 24, 1985 The 1985 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 27. The season consisted of 43 official money events. Curtis Strange and Lanny Wadkins won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed...
|
Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational |
-22 (69-73-64-66-66=338) |
1 stroke |
USA Mike Smith |
| 8 |
Jul 7, 1985 The 1985 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 27. The season consisted of 43 official money events. Curtis Strange and Lanny Wadkins won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed...
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Canadian OpenThe RBC Canadian Open is a golf tournament which was founded in 1904.As a national open, and especially as the most accessible non-U.S. national open for American golfers, the event had a special status in the era before the professional tour system became dominant in golf...
|
-9 (69-69-68-73=279) |
2 strokes |
USA Jack NicklausJack William Nicklaus , also known as "The Golden Bear", is regarded by many to be the greatest professional golfer of all time. Nicklaus, who holds the record for the most victories in major championships , was continuously ranked as the world's number one golfer on McCormack's World Golf...
, AUS Greg NormanGregory John Norman AO is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s...
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| 9 |
Apr 27, 1986 The 1986 PGA Tour season was played from January 8 to November 2. The season consisted of 45 official money events. Bob Tway won the most tournaments, four, and there were 11 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The following...
|
Houston Open |
-14 (72-68-68-66=274) |
Playoff |
USA Calvin Peete Calvin Peete is an American golfer. He was the most successful African-American on the PGA Tour, with 12 wins, before the emergence of Tiger Woods....
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| 10 |
Jul 5, 1987 The 1987 PGA Tour season was played from January 7 to November 1. The season consisted of 46 official money events. Paul Azinger and Curtis Strange won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament...
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Canadian OpenThe RBC Canadian Open is a golf tournament which was founded in 1904.As a national open, and especially as the most accessible non-U.S. national open for American golfers, the event had a special status in the era before the professional tour system became dominant in golf...
|
-12 (71-70-66-69=276) |
3 strokes |
ZAF David Frost David Laurence Frost is a South African professional golfer who has more than twenty professional tournament wins to his name, spread across four continents....
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| 11 |
Aug 2, 1987 The 1987 PGA Tour season was played from January 7 to November 1. The season consisted of 46 official money events. Paul Azinger and Curtis Strange won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament...
|
Federal Express St. Jude Classic |
-13 (70-68-68-69=275) |
1 stroke |
USA Russ Cochran Russell Earl Cochran is an American professional golfer on the Champions Tour who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He is one of eight left-handed players to win a PGA Tour event....
, USA Mike DonaldMichael William Donald is an American professional golfer.Donald was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He won 1974 National Junior College Athletic Association title while playing at Broward Community College and also attended Georgia Southern University.Donald's sole win on the PGA Tour was the...
,
USA Tom KiteThomas Oliver Kite, Jr. is an American professional golfer. He spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1989 and 1994....
, ZWE Denis WatsonDenis Leslie Watson is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe.Watson was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia and educated at Oriel Boys High School, Chisipite...
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| 12 |
Aug 30, 1987 The 1987 PGA Tour season was played from January 7 to November 1. The season consisted of 46 official money events. Paul Azinger and Curtis Strange won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament...
|
NEC World Series of Golf |
-13 (68-68-68-71=275) |
3 strokes |
ZAF Fulton Allem Fulton Peter Allem is a South African professional golfer.Allem was born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa, the middle child of five children and the grandson of a Lebanese trader; he had a privileged upbringing...
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| 13 |
May 1, 1988 The 1988 PGA Tour season was played from January 14 to November 13. The season consisted of 47 official money events. Curtis Strange won the most tournaments, four, and there were 11 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The...
|
Independent Insurance Agent Open |
-18 (69-68-66-67=270) |
Playoff |
AUS Greg NormanGregory John Norman AO is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s...
|
| 14 |
May 29, 1988 The 1988 PGA Tour season was played from January 14 to November 13. The season consisted of 47 official money events. Curtis Strange won the most tournaments, four, and there were 11 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The...
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Memorial TournamentThe Memorial Tournament is a PGA Tour golf tournament which is closely associated with Jack Nicklaus. It is played on a Nicklaus-designed course at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Nicklaus' home town of Columbus. The golf course passes through a large neighborhood called...
|
-14 (73-70-64-67=274) |
2 strokes |
ZAF David Frost David Laurence Frost is a South African professional golfer who has more than twenty professional tournament wins to his name, spread across four continents....
, USA Hale IrwinHale S. Irwin is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few players in history to have won three U.S. Opens and was one of the world's leading golfers for much of the 1970s and 1980s. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri, but was...
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| 15 |
Jun 19, 1988 The 1988 PGA Tour season was played from January 14 to November 13. The season consisted of 47 official money events. Curtis Strange won the most tournaments, four, and there were 11 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The...
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U.S. OpenThe United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...
|
-6 (70-67-69-72=278) |
Playoff |
ENG Nick Faldo Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour, and is one of Europe's most successful players ever. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three U.S. Masters. He was ranked the World No. 1 on the Official World Golf Rankings...
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| 16 |
Nov 13, 1988 The 1988 PGA Tour season was played from January 14 to November 13. The season consisted of 47 official money events. Curtis Strange won the most tournaments, four, and there were 11 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The...
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Nabisco Championship The Tour Championship was historically the final event of golf's PGA Tour season. Since 2007, it has been the final event of the FedEx Cup, the competition for the first official championship trophy for the PGA Tour season. From 1987 to 1996, several courses hosted the event...
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-9 (64-71-70-74=279) |
Playoff |
USA Tom KiteThomas Oliver Kite, Jr. is an American professional golfer. He spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1989 and 1994....
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| 17 |
Jun 18, 1989 The 1989 PGA Tour season was played from January 5 to October 29. The season consisted of 44 official money events. Steve Jones and Tom Kite won the most tournaments, three, and there were nine first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament...
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U.S. OpenThe United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...
|
-2 (71-64-73-70=278) |
1 stroke |
USA Chip Beck Charles Henry "Chip" Beck is an American golfer who was a three time All-American at the University of Georgia. He has four victories on the PGA Tour and twenty runner-up finishes. He spent 40 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1988 and 1989.Beck was born in...
, USA Mark McCumberMark Randall McCumber is an American golfer. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida.McCumber turned professional in 1974 and won ten times on the PGA Tour between 1979 and 1994 including the prestigious Players Championship and Tour Championship . He also won the World Cup of Golf for the United...
,
WAL Ian WoosnamIan Harold Woosnam OBE is a Welsh professional golfer.Nicknamed 'Woosers`, `Woosie`, or the 'Wee Welshman', Woosnam was one of the "Big Five" generation of European golfers, all born within 12 months of one another, all of whom have won majors, and made Europe competitive in the Ryder Cup...
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"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.