13 Facts About Curtis Strange

Curtis Northrup Strange was born on January 30,1955 and is an American professional golfer and TV color commentator.

Curtis Strange is the winner of consecutive US Open titles and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.

Curtis Strange spent over 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between their debut in 1986 and 1990.

Curtis Strange graduated from Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach, then enrolled at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Curtis Strange played golf for the Demon Deacons and was part of the NCAA Championship team with Jay Haas and Bob Byman that Golf World has labeled "the greatest of all time".

Related searches

Curtis Strange won nine individual events and was the youngest NCAA Champion in golf at the time.

Curtis Strange was one of the leading players on the PGA Tour in the 1980s; 16 of his 17 tour victories took place in that decade.

Curtis Strange topped the money list in 1985,1987, and 1988, when he became the first to win a million dollars in official money in a season.

Curtis Strange was a runner-up at the PGA Championship in 1989, one stroke back.

Curtis Strange played on five Ryder Cup teams and captained the team in 2002.

Curtis Strange won the 1986 ABC Japan-US Match, an event on the Japan Golf Tour that included many American pros.

Curtis Strange won three events in Australia in the late 1980s and early 1990s and recorded runner-up finishes at the 1976 Australian Open, 1977 Colgate Champion of Champions, 1986 Air New Zealand Shell Open, and the 1990 Daikyo Palm Meadows Cup.

In 1988 when Curtis Strange won the US Open, Ping recognized him with a golden putter replica of the Ping Zing 2 he used to win.