David Duval

David Duval
Personal information
Full name	David Robert Duval
Nickname	Double D, DD
Born	November 9, 1971 (1971-11-09) (age 38) Jacksonville, Florida
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 13 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Denver, Colorado
Spouse	Susan Karavites Duval
Children	Deano, Nick, Shalene, Brayden, Sienna
Career
College	Georgia Tech
Turned professional	1993
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour (joined 1995)
Professional wins	19
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	13
Nationwide Tour	2
Best results in Major Championships (Wins: 1)
The Masters	2nd/T2: 1998, 2001
U.S. Open	T2: 2009
Open Championship	Won: 2001
PGA Championship	T10: 1999, 2001
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour leading money winner	1998
Vardon Trophy	1998
Byron Nelson Award	1998

David Robert Duval (born November 9, 1971) is an American professional golfer and former World No. 1 who competes on the PGA Tour.

Background and career

Amateur career

Duval was born in Jacksonville, Florida. The son of former Champions Tour player Bob Duval, he graduated from the Episcopal High School of Jacksonville. He was the U.S. Junior Amateur champion in 1989. He continued his amateur career at Georgia Tech, where he was a four-time first-team All-American, two-time ACC Player of the Year, and 1993 National Player of the Year. While in college, he led an official PGA Tour event, the BellSouth Classic (which he would win as a professional), after three rounds.

Professional career

After two years on the Nike Tour, he earned his PGA Tour card in 1995. Success came quickly, as Duval posted seven second place finishes on the PGA Tour from 1995 to 1997, qualifying for the 1996 Presidents Cup and posting a 4-0-0 record for the victorious American team. But a PGA Tour victory eluded him until he won the Michelob Championship at Kingsmill in October, 1997, and winning his next two tournaments in the same month, including the 1997 Tour Championship. Altogether, from 1997 to 2001, he won 13 PGA Tour tournaments, including the 1997 Tour Championship, the 1999 Players Championship, and the 2001 Open Championship, as well as the 2001 Dunlop Phoenix and the 2000 World Cup (with Tiger Woods) internationally. He also tied for second in both the 1998 and 2001 Masters.

Duval's winning speech at the 2001 Open was welcomed by British commentators as "delightfully modest and heartfelt".^[1]

Other career highlights include achieving the number one spot in the Official World Golf Rankings in April 1999 and shooting a 59 in the final round of the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic on the Palmer Course at PGA West in La Quinta, California (doing so in dramatic fashion by making an eagle on the final hole to win the tournament by one shot). When he won the Players Championship he became the first player in history to win on the same day as his father, Bob Duval, who won a Champions Tour event that same day. Before 1999, only two other golfers in PGA Tour history, Al Geiberger and Chip Beck, had posted a 59 in competition and no one had ever done so in a final round. He also played on the victorious 1999 Ryder Cup team, as well as the 2002 team.

After his Open Championship win, Duval entered a downward spiral in form that saw him drop to 80th on the money list in 2002, and 211th in 2003, prompting an extended break from the game. Numerous reasons have been postulated for the decline, including back, wrist, and shoulder problems; private difficulties; and a form of vertigo. Duval has not won a tournament since his 2001 Open Championship victory on the PGA Tour. His last worldwide win was the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament in November 2001, on his 30th birthday. His 30s have proved much less lucrative on the golf course.

Many commentators believed Duval's career to be over, but he returned to golf in 2004 at the U.S. Open, where he shot 25 over par and missed the cut. Duval has struggled since his return with his best results a T-13 at the 2004 Deutsche Bank Championship and a T-16 at the 2006 U.S. Open. He made the cut in only one PGA Tour event in 2005, but did finish in the top ten at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan. While Duval at his peak was viewed as aloof and distant and was not a fan favorite, now galleries sympathize with his plight and root for him to overcome his issues and to enjoy playing golf.

Duval had a successful start to the 2006 PGA Tour season, making the cut in his first two tournaments, as well as a very respectable finish of T-16 at the U.S. Open Championship at Winged Foot Golf Club, where his second round 68 was good enough for a tie as the best round of the tournament. Despite not reaching the same heights in the remaining two majors of the year, his performances continued a general upward trend, with none of the rounds of 80+ that had become so familiar in the previous years.

After a steady start to 2007 during the West Coast Swing, Duval once again disappeared from the tour. He later revealed that this was due to a difficult pregnancy his wife was going through. This prompted the PGA Tour to amend its medical exemption policies - and Duval was granted twenty starts for next season.

After a lackluster first half of the year, Duval inexplicably reappeared on the leaderboard of The Open Championship, rekindling memories of his major victory. He shot 73-69-83-71 for the week and finished T-39.

In 2009, Duval used his final career money exemption on the PGA Tour. He made his first cut of 2009 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in February. However, he stormed back onto the golf scene with a T2 finish at the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black. After going through sectional qualifying, Duval made the most of his first appearance in the U.S. Open since 2006. Going into the final round, Duval was four shots behind eventual winner Lucas Glover. Duval made a triple bogey at the par three 3rd hole, but rebounded with three straight birdies from 14 to 16. He stood on the tee of the 71st hole in a tie for the lead, but his par putt lipped out on the hole, and he finished tied for second, two shots behind Glover. It was his best finish on tour since the 2002 Memorial Tournament. After the Open, Duval jumped 740 spots in the Official World Golf Rankings from 882 to 142.^[2]

Amateur wins

this list may be incomplete

• 1989 U.S. Junior Amateur
• 1992 Northeast Amateur, Porter Cup

Professional wins (19)

PGA Tour wins (13)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Oct 12, 1997	Michelob Championship at Kingsmill	-13 (67-66-71-67=271)	Playoff 1	Grant Waite, Duffy Waldorf
2	Oct 19, 1997	Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic	-18 (65-70-65-70=270)	Playoff 2	Dan Forsman
3	Nov 2, 1997	The Tour Championship	-11 (66-69-70-68=273)	1 stroke	Jim Furyk
4	Feb 22, 1998	Tucson Chrysler Classic	-19 (66-62-68-73=269)	4 strokes	Justin Leonard, David Toms
5	May 3, 1998	Shell Houston Open	-12 (69-70-73-64=276)	1 stroke	Jeff Maggert
6	Aug 30, 1998	NEC World Series of Golf	-11 (69-66-66-68=269)	2 strokes	Phil Mickelson
7	Oct 11, 1998	Michelob Championship at Kingsmill	-16 (65-67-68-68=268)	3 strokes	Phil Tataurangi
8	Jan 10, 1999	Mercedes Championships	-26 (67-63-68-68=266)	9 strokes	Mark O'Meara
9	Jan 24, 1999	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	-26 (70-71-64-70-59=334)	1 stroke	Steve Pate
10	Mar 28, 1999	The Players Championship	-3 (69-69-74-73=285)	2 strokes	Scott Gump
11	Apr 4, 1999	BellSouth Classic	-18 (66-69-68-67=270)	2 strokes	Stewart Cink
12	Oct 1, 2000	Buick Challenge	-19 (68-69-67-65=269)	2 strokes	Jeff Maggert, Nick Price
13	Jul 22, 2001	The Open Championship	-10 (69-73-65-67=274)	3 strokes	Niclas Fasth

¹Defeated Grant Waite and Duffy Waldorf with birdie on first extra hole.
²Defeated Dan Forsman with par on first extra hole.

Nationwide Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1.	Aug 22, 1993	NIKE Wichita Open	-17 (62-70-69-70=271)	1 stroke	Jeff Lee, John Morse
2.	Oct 17, 1993	NIKE Tour Championship	-7 (69-68-72-68=277)	1 stroke	Danny Briggs

Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

• 2001 Dunlop Phoenix

Other wins (3)

• 1998 Fred Meyer Challenge (with Jim Furyk - unofficial event)
• 1999 Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout (with Fred Couples - unofficial event)
• 2000 WGC-World Cup (with Tiger Woods - unofficial money)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	54 Holes	Winning Score	Margin	Runner-up
2001	The Open Championship	Tied for lead	-10 (69-73-65-67=274)	3 strokes	Niclas Fasth

Results timeline

DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Results in World Golf Championship events

¹Cancelled due to 9/11
DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
NT = No Tournament
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

PGA Tour career summary

* As of September 7, 2009

United States national team appearances

Amateur

• World Amateur Team Championship: 1990, 1992
• Walker Cup: 1991 (winners)

Professional

• Presidents Cup: 1996 (winners), 1998, 2000 (winners)
• Ryder Cup: 1999 (winners), 2002
• World Cup: 2000 (winners), 2001

See also

• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• List of World Number One male golfers
• Longest PGA Tour win streaks
• Monday Night Golf

References

External links

• Profile on PGA Tour's official site
• David Duval on About.com
• Results in ranking events for the last two years from the Official World Golf Ranking site
• Unofficial David Duval Website

David Duval in the Ryder Cup v • d • e United States Ryder Cup team – 1999 David Duval · Jim Furyk · Tom Lehman · Justin Leonard · Davis Love III · Jeff Maggert · Phil Mickelson · Mark O'Meara · Steve Pate · Payne Stewart · Hal Sutton · Tiger Woods · Ben Crenshaw (non-playing captain) v • d • e United States Ryder Cup team – 2002 Paul Azinger · Mark Calcavecchia · Stewart Cink · David Duval · Jim Furyk · Scott Hoch · Davis Love III · Phil Mickelson · Hal Sutton · David Toms · Scott Verplank · Tiger Woods · Curtis Strange (non-playing captain)

David Duval in the Presidents Cup v • d • e United States Presidents Cup team – 1996 Mark Brooks • Fred Couples • David Duval • Scott Hoch • Tom Lehman • Justin Leonard • Davis Love III • Mark O'Meara • Phil Mickelson • Corey Pavin • Kenny Perry • Steve Stricker • Arnold Palmer (non-playing captain) v • d • e United States Presidents Cup team – 1998 Mark Calcavecchia • Fred Couples • David Duval • Jim Furyk • Scott Hoch • John Huston • Lee Janzen • Justin Leonard • Davis Love III • Phil Mickelson • Mark O'Meara • Tiger Woods • Jack Nicklaus (non-playing captain) v • d • e United States Presidents Cup team – 2000 Paul Azinger • Notah Begay III • Stewart Cink • David Duval • Jim Furyk • Tom Lehman • Davis Love III • Phil Mickelson • Loren Roberts • Hal Sutton • Kirk Triplett • Tiger Woods • Ken Venturi (non-playing captain)