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Hale Irwin (born June 3, 1945 in Joplin, Missouri) is an American golfer.

Irwin graduated from the University of Colorado in 1967, where he was a two-time All-Big Eight defensive back, as well as an academic All-American in football. He won the individual NCAA Division I Championship in golf in 1967 and turned professional the following year.

Irwin had 20 victories on the PGA Tour beginning with the 1971 Sea Pines Heritage Classic and finishing with the 1994 MCI Heritage Golf Classic, and won prize money of just under six million dollars. His three major championship titles were the 1974, 1979, and 1990 US Opens. His 1998 win at the U.S. Senior Open came at the Riviera Country Club.

Irwin qualified to play on the over 50s Champions Tour (formerly the Senior PGA Tour) in 1995 and has enjoyed even greater success at this level than he did on the PGA Tour. As of October 3, 2005 he had won 44 Champions Tour titles and topped the all-time Champions Tour with earnings of over USD $22 million.

PGA Tour wins

1971 Sea Pines Heritage Classic
1973 Sea Pines Heritage Classic
1974 U.S. Open
1975 Atlanta Classic, Western Open
1976 Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open, Florida Citrus Open
1977 Atlanta Classic, Colgate Hall of Fame Golf Classic, San Antonio Texas Open
1979 U.S. Open
1981 Hawaiian Open, Buick Open
1982 Honda Inverrary Classic
1983 Memorial Tournament
1984 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am
1985 Memorial Tournament
1990 U.S. Open, Buick Classic
1994 MCI Heritage Golf Classic

Major championships are shown in bold.

Other regular career wins

1974 Piccadilly World Match Play
1975 Piccadilly World Match Play
1978 Australian PGA
1979 South African PGA, World Cup (individual), World Cup (team - with John Mahaffey)
1981 Bridgestone Classic
1982 Brazilian Open
1986 Bahamas Classic
1987 Fila Classic

Champions Tour wins

1995 Ameritech Senior Open, Vantage Championship
1996 American Express Invitational, PGA Seniors' Championship
1997 MasterCard Championship, LG Championship, PGA Seniors' Championship, Las Vegas Senior Classic, Burnet Senior Classic, BankBoston Classic, Boone Valley Classic, Vantage Championship, Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali Classic
1998 Toshiba Senior Classic, PGA Seniors' Championship, Las Vegas Senior Classic, Ameritech Senior Open, U.S. Senior Open, BankBoston Classic, Energizer Senior Tour Championship
1999 Nationwide Championship, Boone Valley Classic, Ford Senior Players Championship, Ameritech Senior Open, Coldwell Banker Burnet Classic
2000 Nationwide Championship, BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland, U.S. Senior Open, EMC Kaanapali Classic
2001 Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley, Bruno's Memorial Classic, Turtle Bay Championship
2002 ACE Group Classic, Toshiba Senior Classic, 3M Championship, Turtle Bay Championship
2003 Kinko's Classic of Austin, Turtle Bay Championship
2004 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, Senior PGA Championship
2005 Turtle Bay Championship, Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, SAS Championship

Senior majors are shown in bold.

Other senior career wins

1996 Lexus Challenge (with Sean Connery)
1997 Senior Slam at Los Cabos
1998 Senior Match Play Challenge
1999 Senior Skins Game, Wendy's Three-Tour Challenge (with Jack Nicklaus
and Tom Watson
)
2000 Our Lucaya Senior Slam
2001 Senior Skins Game
2002 Senior Skins Game

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