Tom Kite
1 Major Championship • 90th All-Time
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Wins
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2nd Place
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First Win Age
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Last Win Age
Major Championship Wins
Career Highlights
- 1992 U.S. Open — Won at Pebble Beach at age 42, his only major championship victory
- 19 PGA Tour Wins — Including The Players Championship (1989) and Tour Championship (1989)
- PGA Tour Money King — Led money list in 1981 and 1989, first to reach $6, $7, $8, and $9 million in career earnings
- 1989 Player of the Year — Career-best season with PGA Tour Player of the Year honors
- Pebble Beach Record — Only player to make the cut at first four U.S. Opens held at Pebble Beach (1972, 1982, 1992, 2000)
- Masters Consistency — Four runner-up finishes (1983, 1986, 1997) but never won the green jacket
Did You Know?
- Golf Innovator: First to add a third wedge to his bag, one of first to use sports psychology, and emphasized physical fitness before it was common
- Short-Iron Mastery: In 1993, Johnny Miller called Kite "the greatest short-iron player the game has seen"
- Laser Eye Surgery Pioneer: Underwent laser surgery late in career to improve his game, helping transform his partial blindness