| David Duval | |||||||||||||
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| Full name | David Robert Duval | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | Double D, DD | ||||||||||||
| Born | (1971-11-09)November 9, 1971 (age 54) Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg; 13 st) | ||||||||||||
| Sporting nationality |  United States | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Spouse | |||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Career | |||||||||||||
| College | Georgia Institute of Technology | ||||||||||||
| Turned professional | 1993 | ||||||||||||
| Current tour | PGA Tour Champions | ||||||||||||
| Former tours | PGA Tour Nike Tour | ||||||||||||
| Professional wins | 20 | ||||||||||||
| Highestranking | 1 (March 28, 1999)[1] (15 weeks) | ||||||||||||
| Number of wins by tour | |||||||||||||
| PGA Tour | 13 | ||||||||||||
| European Tour | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Japan Golf Tour | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Korn Ferry Tour | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Other | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Best results in major championships (wins: 1) | |||||||||||||
| Masters Tournament | 2nd/T2:1998,2001 | ||||||||||||
| PGA Championship | T10:1999,2001 | ||||||||||||
| U.S. Open | T2:2009 | ||||||||||||
| The Open Championship | Won:2001 | ||||||||||||
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David Robert Duval (born November 9, 1971) is an Americanprofessional golfer who competed on thePGA Tour and currently plays on thePGA Tour Champions. He is a formerworld number one in theOfficial World Golf Ranking. Duval won 13 PGA Tour tournaments between 1997 and 2001, including onemajor championship, the2001 Open Championship.
Duval attendedGeorgia Tech, where he was a two-time ACC Player of the Year and the 1993 National Player of the Year. After playing two years on theNike Tour, where he won twice, he received his PGA Tour card in 1995. Between1997 and2000, Duval finished all four seasons top-5 on the PGA Tour's money list, including being theleading money winner and scoring leader in1998. In addition to his major title, he also won the1997 Tour Championship and the1999 Players Championship.
Following Duval's victory at the 2001 Open Championship, he never won again on the PGA Tour and his performance declined dramatically due to injuries and various medical conditions. As a result, he lost his tour card in2011. After his professional golf career slowed, he became a golf analyst. He began competing on the Champions Tour in 2022.
Duval was born inJacksonville, Florida, the son of golf instructor and club professionalBob Duval and Diane Poole Duval, a member of theFSU Flying High Circus during college.[3] His brother Brent was two years older, and sister Deirdre was five years younger.[4] During his early years, his father was club professional atTimuquana Country Club, where he learned to play golf under his father's guidance.
When David was nine, his brother Brent developedaplastic anemia. The family sought treatment atRainbow Babies & Children's Hospital inCleveland,Ohio, where David underwent surgery to donate bone marrow. The transplant was not successful, and Brent died as a result ofsepsis on May 17, 1981 at age 12. Bob Duval was unable to cope, and moved out of the family home for a year. Counseling enabled him to reunite with his wife and children in 1982, and David continued to receive golf instruction from his father.[5] In 1993, just as Duval was starting his professional golf career, his father again moved out of the family home, this time permanently.[5]
He graduated from theEpiscopal High School of Jacksonville in 1989, the same year he was theU.S. Junior Amateur champion. He continued his amateur career for theGeorgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's golf team, where he was a four-time first-team All-American, two-time ACC Player of the Year, and 1993 National Player of the Year.[6]
While in college, Duval held a two-stroke lead after 54 holes in an official PGA Tour event, the 1992BellSouth Classic.[7][8] He shot a final-round 79 to finish tied-13th.[9]
After two years on theNike Tour where he won twice, he earned hisPGA Tour card in 1995. Success came quickly, as Duval posted seven second-place finishes on the PGA Tour from 1995 to 1997, qualifying for the1996 Presidents Cup and posting a 4–0–0 record for the victorious American team. But a PGA Tour victory eluded him until he won theMichelob Championship at Kingsmill in October 1997. He won his next two tournaments, including the season-endingTour Championship.
The following season, in 1998, Duval won four tournaments and led the PGA Tour money list. He also won theVardon Trophy andByron Nelson Award for lowest scoring average.
Early in 1999, he achieved the number one spot in theOfficial World Golf Ranking and shot a 59 in the final round of the 1999Bob Hope Chrysler Classic on the Palmer Course at PGA West inLa Quinta, California. Duval made an eagle on the final hole to win the tournament by one shot. Before 1999, only two other golfers in PGA Tour history,Al Geiberger andChip Beck, had posted a 59 in competition and no one had ever done so in a final round.[10] Later, in the spring, he won the1999 Players Championship. 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 aChampions Tour event that same day.[11] He also played on the victorious 1999Ryder Cup team. He finished the season second on the money list only behindTiger Woods.
The following season, in 2000, he won theBuick Challenge and finished in the top ten of the money list. The following year he won the2001 Open Championship. Duval's winning speech was welcomed by British commentators as "delightfully modest and heartfelt".[12] He also won theDunlop Phoenix Tournament, an event on theJapan Golf Tour, at the end of the year.
After his Open Championship win, Duval entered a downward spiral in form that saw him drop to 80th on the money list in2002 and 211th in2003, prompting an extended break from the game. Numerous reasons have been postulated for the decline, including back, wrist and shoulder problems, personal difficulties and a form ofvertigo. Duval has not won a tournament on the PGA Tour since his Open Championship victory in 2001. His last worldwide win was theDunlop Phoenix Tournament in November 2001 on his 30th birthday. His 30s proved to be much less lucrative on the golf course.[13]
Many commentators believed Duval's career to be over but he returned to golf at theU.S. Open in2004, where he shot 25 over par and missed the cut. Duval struggled with his best results until 2009 being a T-13 at the Deutsche Bank Championship in2004 and a T-16 at the U.S. Open in2006. He made the cut in only one PGA Tour event in2005 but did finish in the top ten at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan.
Duval had a successful start to the2006 season, making the cut in his first two tournaments, as well as a very respectable finish of T-16 at the U.S. Open 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 to2007 during the West Coast Swing, Duval once again disappeared from the tour. His mother died on July 17,[3] and he later revealed that his wife was going through a difficult pregnancy. This prompted the PGA Tour to amend its medical exemption policies – and Duval was granted twenty starts for the next season.
After a lackluster first half of the following year, Duval reappeared on the leaderboard of the2008 Open Championship, rekindling memories of his major victory. He shot 73-69-83-71 for the week and finished T-39.[14]
In2009, Duval used his final career money exemption on the PGA Tour. He made his first cut at theAT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in February. However, he stormed back onto the golf scene with a T-2 finish at theU.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 winnerLucas 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 2002Memorial Tournament. After the Open, Duval jumped 740 spots in theOfficial World Golf Ranking from 882 to 142.[15][16]
Duval failed to earn his PGA Tour card for the2010 season, so he had to play on sponsor's exemptions. He showed more signs of a comeback by shooting a final-round 69 to finish 2nd to defending championDustin Johnson at the 2010AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Duval had a good 2010 season and retained his tour card at the end of the year.
The2011 season was a struggle for Duval, when he made only nine cuts in 24 events and lost his Tour card after finishing outside 150th on the tour money list. He went toQ School in an attempt to regain his tour card, but finished T72 in the final round. For2012, Duval had past champion status. After seven unsuccessful starts, Duval made his first cut of the season at the Valero Texas Open, and finished T60. It was announced on June 13 that he would be an analyst for ESPN for the first two rounds of theU.S. Open, having failed to qualify for the 2nd major of the season.[17][18]
In December 2013, Duval announced via his Twitter that the2014 PGA Tour season would be the last season he would ask for sponsor exemptions to get into tournament fields. Many people took this as a possible retirement announcement, but Duval clarified to say that he wants to earn his way back on the Tour rather than depending on others.[19][20] In April 2014, Duval finished tied for 25th (−8) at theZurich Classic of New Orleans.
In 2018, U.S. captainJim Furyk named Duval as a non-playing vice-captain for the U.S. team participating in the2018 Ryder Cup. The U.S. team lost to Europe by 17½ points to 10½.
After turning 50 in 2021 and gaining eligibility, Duval began playing on thePGA Tour Champions circuit in 2022.[21]
In addition to playing in tournaments, Duval has become a TV golf commentator. From 2012 through 2014, he helped commentateThe Open Championship[22] andU.S. Open forESPN.[23] In 2015, Duval joined theGolf Channel as a studio analyst.[24] Since 2020, Duval has served as the lead analyst for ESPN's coverage of thePGA Championship.[25]
Duval split with his girlfriend Julie McArthur in early 2002 after being together for eight years.[26][27]
Duval and his wife Suzanne (née Persichitte)[28][29] met at a Denver restaurant in August 2003 while Duval was in the city forThe International, a nearby PGA Tour event. They married seven months later.[29] They have two children together. She has custody of her three older children from a prior marriage. Their home is inCherry Hills Village, Colorado, a suburb south of Denver.[4]
According to a 2004 article in theOrlando Sentinel, Duval "was one of those life-long Republicans until a couple of years ago when he re-registered and became a Democrat." This made him one of the few Democrats on the PGA Tour. He said of theinvasion of Iraq: "I don't think it's always right to force our belief system on other people."[30] In a 2006 interview withBob Verdi, Duval stated he voted forJohn Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. He added: "I am socially a Democrat ... But I am fiscally a Republican."[31]
this list may be incomplete
| Legend |
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| Major championships (1) |
| Players Championships (1) |
| Tour Championships (1) |
| Other PGA Tour (10) |
| 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 |  Grant Waite, Duffy Waldorf |
| 2 | Oct 19, 1997 | Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic | −18 (65-70-65-70=270) | Playoff | 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 (2) | −16 (65-67-68-68=268) | 3 strokes | Phil Tataurangi |
| 8 | Jan 10,1999 | Mercedes Championships | −26 (67-63-68-68=266) | 9 strokes | Billy Mayfair,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 |
PGA Tour playoff record (2–2)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1997 | Michelob Championship at Kingsmill | Grant Waite,Duffy Waldorf | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 2 | 1997 | Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic | Dan Forsman | Won with par on first extra hole |
| 3 | 2000 | Buick Classic | Dennis Paulson | Lost to par on fourth extra hole |
| 4 | 2001 | Buick Challenge | Chris DiMarco | Lost to par on first extra hole |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nov 11,2001 | Dunlop Phoenix Tournament | −15 (65-67-68-69=269) | Playoff |  Taichi Teshima |
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–0)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2001 | Dunlop Phoenix Tournament | Taichi Teshima | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| Legend |
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| Tour Championships (1) |
| Other Nike Tour (0) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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| 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 |
| Legend |
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| World Golf Championships (1) |
| Other wins (3) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
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| 1 | Aug 25, 1998 | Fred Meyer Challenge (with Jim Furyk) | −18 (65-61=126) | 4 strokes |  Steve Elkington andCraig Stadler,Scott McCarron andPaul Stankowski |
| 2 | Nov 14, 1999 | Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout (with Fred Couples) | −32 (61-62-61=184) | 6 strokes | Scott Hoch andScott McCarron |
| 3 | Dec 10, 2000 | WGC-World Cup (with Tiger Woods) | −34 (61-65-60-68=254) | 3 strokes |  Argentina −Ángel Cabrera andEduardo Romero |
| 4 | Dec 11, 2016 | PNC Father-Son Challenge (with stepson Nick Karavites) | −21 (61-62=123) | 1 stroke | Stewart Cink and son Connor Cink |
Other playoff record (0–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2001 | WGC-World Cup (with Tiger Woods) |  Denmark −Thomas Bjørn andSøren Hansen, New Zealand −Michael Campbell andDavid Smail, South Africa −Retief Goosen andErnie Els | South Africa won with par on second extra hole New Zealand and United States eliminated by birdie on first hole |
| 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 not in chronological order in 2020.
| Tournament | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
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| Masters Tournament | T18 | CUT | T2 | T6 | ||||||
| U.S. Open | T56 | CUT | T28 | T67 | T48 | T7 | T7 | |||
| The Open Championship | T20 | T14 | T33 | T11 | T62 | |||||
| PGA Championship | CUT | T41 | T13 | CUT | T10 |
| Tournament | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | T3 | 2 | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | ||||
| U.S. Open | T8 | T16 | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | T16 | T2 | ||
| The Open Championship | T11 | 1 | T22 | CUT | CUT | T56 | T39 | CUT | ||
| PGA Championship | T10 | T34 | WD | CUT | CUT | CUT |
| Tournament | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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| Masters Tournament | CUT | ||||||||
| U.S. Open | T70 | ||||||||
| The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | T49 | WD | CUT | WD |
| PGA Championship |
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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| Masters Tournament | ||||
| PGA Championship | ||||
| U.S. Open | ||||
| The Open Championship | CUT | NT | CUT |
WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due toCOVID-19 pandemic
| Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
| PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 5 |
| U.S. Open | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 11 |
| The Open Championship | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 12 |
| Totals | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 62 | 33 |
| Year | Championship | 54 holes | Winning score | Margin | Runner-up |
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| 1999 | The Players Championship | 1 shot lead | −3 (69-69-74-73=285) | 2 strokes | Scott Gump |
| Tournament | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
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| The Players Championship | CUT | T4 | T43 | T18 | 1 |
| Tournament | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
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| The Players Championship | T13 | T28 | CUT | CUT | CUT |
| Tournament | 2010 | 2011 |
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| The Players Championship | CUT |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
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| Match Play | R32 | 3 | R64 | R64 | |
| Championship | NT1 | T46 | |||
| Invitational | T27 | 27 | T28 |
1Cancelled due to9/11
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament
Results not in chronological order
| Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| The Tradition | T66 | T52 | T12 | |
| Senior PGA Championship | CUT | T21 | ||
| Senior Players Championship | T59 | T59 | T44 | T33 |
| U.S. Senior Open | CUT | |||
| Senior British Open Championship | CUT | CUT |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
| Season | Wins (Majors) | Earnings ($) | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 0 | 0 | n/a |
| 1991 | – | – | – |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 | n/a |
| 1993 | 0 | $27,181 | 201 |
| 1994 | 0 | $44,006 | 195 |
| 1995 | 0 | $881,436 | 11 |
| 1996 | 0 | $977,079 | 10 |
| 1997 | 3 | $1,885,308 | 2 |
| 1998 | 4 | $2,591,031 | 1 |
| 1999 | 4 | $3,641,906 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | $2,462,846 | 7 |
| 2001 | 1 (1) | $2,801,760 | 8 |
| 2002 | 0 | $838,045 | 80 |
| 2003 | 0 | $84,708 | 211 |
| 2004 | 0 | $121,044 | 210 |
| 2005 | 0 | $7,630 | 260 |
| 2006 | 0 | $318,276 | 172 |
| 2007 | 0 | $71,945 | 222 |
| 2008 | 0 | $114,974 | 219 |
| 2009 | 0 | $623,824 | 130 |
| 2010 | 0 | $919,584 | 106 |
| 2011 | 0 | $400,654 | 152 |
| 2012 | 0 | $32,936 | 233 |
| 2013 | 0 | $6,210 | 251 |
| 2014 | 0 | $94,709 | 207 |
| 2015 | 0 | $36,839 | 232 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | n/a |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | n/a |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | n/a |
| Career* | 13 (1) | $18,983,931 | 81 |
* As of the 2018 season
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