Steve Lowery

Steve Lowery
— Golfer —
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Brent Lowery
Born	(1960-10-12) October 12, 1960 Birmingham, Alabama
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	225 lb (102 kg; 16.1 st)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	University of Alabama
Turned professional	1983
Current tour(s)	Champions Tour
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	4
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	3
Web.com Tour	1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	T40: 2001, 2002
U.S. Open	T16: 1994
The Open Championship	T36: 2004
PGA Championship	3rd: 2001

Stephen Brent Lowery (born October 12, 1960) is an American professional golfer.

Lowery was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has PGA Tour victories in 1994, 2000 and 2008. All three of his victories on the PGA Tour have come in playoffs.

Lowery has been featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking. His best season on the PGA Tour was in 1994, when he finished 12th on the money list. He missed most of 2007 with a wrist injury. The PGA Tour granted him a partial exemption for the 2008 season. He needed to win more than $250,000 during his first eight starts in 2008 in order to re-gain his full exemption on the PGA Tour, but that became a moot point when he won the 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The victory gave him a full two-year exemption.

Lowery also won the Birmingham Golf Association Junior and State Junior in the late 1970s, before embarking on his four years of college at the University of Alabama. He played for coach Conrad Rehling from 1979-1983, on the Alabama Crimson Tide golf team.

In 1998, Lowery was involved in a bizarre incident at The Players Championship, in which his successful approach shot to the infamous island green on the 17th hole was stolen by a seagull (which then dropped his ball into the adjacent water hazard). Under PGA rules, Lowery was allowed to replace his ball with no penalty.

Though it was in a losing effort, Lowery played a memorable stretch of golf at The International in 2002. He holed out a shot from over 200 yards for a rare double eagle (or albatross) on the 71st hole to pull within one point, ultimately losing by the same margin after missing a birdie putt on the last hole. Coming near the very end of the tournament and creating such a close finish, Lowery's double eagle was one of the most dramatic in PGA Tour history since Gene Sarazen made a double eagle at 15 in the final round of the 1935 Masters Tournament. Two holes before his double eagle, Lowery also holed out a wedge from the fairway for an eagle.

Amateur wins

this list may be incomplete

• 1982 Southern Amateur

Professional wins (4)

PGA Tour wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	Aug 21, 1994	Sprint International	35 pts (7-14-5-9=35)	Playoff	Rick Fehr
2	Nov 5, 2000	Southern Farm Bureau Classic	–22 (64-67-65-70=266)	Playoff	Skip Kendall
3	Feb 10, 2008	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	–10 (69-71-70-68=278)	Playoff	Vijay Singh

PGA Tour playoff record (3–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	1994	Sprint International	Rick Fehr	Won with par on first extra hole
2	2000	Southern Farm Bureau Classic	Skip Kendall	Won with birdie on first extra hole
3	2008	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	Vijay Singh	Won with birdie on first extra hole

Nationwide Tour wins (1)

• 1992 Ben Hogan Tulsa Open

Results in major championships

Tournament	1988	1989
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T41	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	T33	T16	T56	T60	DNP	DNP	CUT
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T79	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T8	CUT	T58	T44	DNP

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Masters Tournament	DNP	T40	T40	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	T24	CUT	T42	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T36	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	T51	3	T10	CUT	CUT	DNP	T60	CUT	CUT

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3
U.S. Open	0	0	0	0	0	2	11	6
The Open Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
PGA Championship	0	0	1	1	3	3	13	7
Totals	0	0	1	1	3	5	32	18

• Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (twice)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)

See also

• 1992 Ben Hogan Tour graduates

External links

• Steve Lowery at the PGA Tour official site
• Steve Lowery at the Official World Golf Ranking official site