DAVIS LOVE III

'Davis Love III'

Davis Love III
'Personal Information'
'Birth'	Charlotte, North Carolina
'Height'
'Weight'
'Nationality'
'Wife'	Robin Love
'Children'	Alexia Davis IV
'Residence'	St. Simons Island, GA
'College'	University of North Carolina
Career
'Turned Pro'	1985
'Current tour'	PGA Tour
'Professional wins'	31 (PGA: 19, Other: 12)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 1
Masters	2nd: 1995, 1999
U.S. Open	T2: 1996
British Open	T4: 2003
PGA Championship	'Won' 1997

'Davis Milton Love III' (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer.
Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He quickly established himself on the PGA Tour, winning his first tour event in 1987. He was later to be in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for several years and reaching a high of third.^[1] He has established himself as one of the most popular players on the PGA Tour.
Love has won nineteen events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the 1997 PGA Championship. He also won the prestigious Players Championship in 1992 and 2003. As of July 2007 he was fourth on the PGA Tour career money leaders list ^[2] with earnings of more than $35 million.
Love was introduced to the game by his father, Davis Love, Jr. who was a former pro and nationally recognized golf instructor tragically killed in a 1988 plane crash.

Contents

Background and family

PGA Tour wins (19)

Other wins (12)

Amateur wins

PGA Tour career summary

Major Championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

Team appearances

Trivia

Notes and references

See also

External links

Background and family

Love was born to Davis M. Love Jr.and Helen Penta Burgin shortly after his father contended at the 1964 Masters.
He played ice hockey as a kid. As he stated, "I was a right wing, but I could skate backward, so they made me a defenseman."
Love attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1983 to 1985, where he was a three-time all-American and all-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) golfer. He won six titles during his collegiate career, including the ACC tournament championship in 1984.
In 1994, Love founded Love Golf Design, a golf course architecture company, with his younger brother and caddie, Mark Love. The company has been responsible for the design of several courses throughout the southeast United States.
In 1997, Love published the book ''Every Shot I Take'', which honors his father's lessons on life and golf. The book received the 1997 United States Golf Association's International Book Award.
Love and wife Robin have two children: Alexia and Davis IV. Alexia is a nationally ranked rider of Paso Fino horses. The Love family has resided in St. Simons Island, Georgia since the early 1990s.

PGA Tour wins (19)

★ 1987 (1) MCI Heritage Golf Classic

★ 1990 (1) The International

★ 1991 (1) MCI Heritage Golf Classic

★ 1992 (3) THE PLAYERS Championship, MCI Heritage Golf Classic, KMart Greater Greensboro Open

★ 1993 (2) Infiniti Tournament of Champions, Las Vegas Invitational

★ 1995 (1) Freeport-McMoRan Classic

★ 1996 (1) Buick Invitational

★ 1997 (2) 'PGA Championship', Buick Challenge

★ 1998 (1) MCI Classic

★ 2001 (1) AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

★ 2003 (4) AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, THE PLAYERS Championship, MCI Heritage, The INTERNATIONAL

★ 2006 (1) Chrysler Classic of Greensboro
Major championship is shown in 'bold'.

Other wins (12)

★ 1992 Franklin Funds Shark Shootout (with Tom Kite), World Cup of Golf (with Fred Couples), Kapalua International

★ 1993 World Cup of Golf (with Fred Couples)

★ 1994 World Cup of Golf (with Fred Couples)

★ 1995 World Cup of Golf (team with Fred Couples and individual title)

★ 1996 Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Fred Couples and Payne Stewart)

★ 1997 Lincoln-Mercury Kapalua International

★ 1998 Chunichi Crowns (Japan Golf Tour)

★ 2000 CVS Charity Classic (with Justin Leonard), Williams World Challenge

★ 2003 Target World Challenge presented by Williams

Amateur wins

★ 1984 North and South Amateur

PGA Tour career summary

Year	Wins (Majors)	Earnings ($)	Rank
1985	0	0	N/A
1986	0	113,245	77
1987	1	297,378	33
1988	0	156,068	75
1989	0	278,760	44
1990	1	537,172	20
1991	1	686,361	8
1992	3	1,191,630	2
1993	2	777,059	12
1994	0	474,219	33
1995	1	1,111,999	6
1996	1	1,211,139	7
1997	2 (1)	1,635,953	3
1998	1	1,541,152	11
1999	0	2,475,328	3
2000	0	2,337,765	9
2001	1	3,169,463	5
2002	0	2,056,160	21
2003	4	6,081,896	3
2004	0	3,075,092	10
2005	0	2,658,779	13
2006	1	2,747,206	16
2007 ★	0	789,989	83
'Career ★ '	'19 (1)'	'35,403,813'	'4'

★ Complete through the AT&T National on July 8, 2007.

Major Championships

Wins (1)

'Year	'Championship	'54 Holes	'Winning Score	'Margin	'Runners Up
1997	PGA Championship	Tied for lead	-11 (66-71-66-66=269)	5 strokes	Justin Leonard

Results timeline

Tournament	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	CUT	T33
The Open Championship	DNP	CUT	CUT	T23
PGA Championship	T47	CUT	DNP	T17

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Masters	DNP	T42	T25	T54	CUT	2	T7	T7	T33	2
U.S. Open	DNP	T11	T60	T33	T28	T4	T2	T16	CUT	T12
The Open Championship	CUT	T44	CUT	CUT	T38	T98	CUT	T10	8	T7
PGA Championship	T40	T32	T33	T31	CUT	CUT	CUT	'1'	T7	T49

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
The Masters	T7	CUT	T14	T15	T6	CUT	T22	T27
U.S. Open	CUT	T7	T24	CUT	CUT	T6	CUT	CUT
The Open Championship	T11	T21	T14	T4	T5	CUT	CUT	CUT
PGA Championship	T9	T37	T48	CUT	CUT	T4	T34	CUT

DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

★ Walker Cup: 1985

★ Dunhill Cup: 1992

★ World Cup of Golf: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997

★ Ryder Cup: 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004

★ Presidents Cup: 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005

Trivia

★ Gave Michael Jordan his first set of clubs in college.

★ Played ice hockey as a kid.

★ Marks his golf ball with a 1965 or 1966 penny, and uses white tees.

★ One of the last PGA Tour players to switch from wooden persimmon drivers to metal woods.

★ Considered one of the greatest long-iron players of all time.

★ Good friends with Fred Couples.

★ Titleist-sponsored PGA Tour member.

★ Has been sponsored for many years by Polo Ralph Lauren.

★ Was given a custom-built "American Chopper" motorcycle by his wife Robin for his 40th birthday.

★ Has a portion of I-95 named after him. In 1998, the segment of I-95 which extends in Georgia from the McIntosh County line to Highway 341 at exit 7A and B was designated the "Davis Love III Highway."

★ Davis Love holds the second longest ever officially recorded drive in competition play in history with a massive drive of 476 yards at the 2004 Mercedes Championships. His drive was 39 yards short of Mike Austin's record.

★ He also has a restaurant named after him in his hometown of St. Simons Island, Georgia, called the Davis Love Grill.

Notes and references

1. Official World Golf Ranking - September 7 2003
2. Statistics from PGA Tour's official site

See also

★ Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

★ Most wins in one PGA Tour event

External links

★ Profile on PGA Tour's official site

★ Official site