More Information About Steve Lowery

Steve Lowery
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Brent Lowery
Born	October 12, 1960 (1960-10-12) (age 49) 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)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	4
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	3
Nationwide Tour	1
Best results in Major Championships
The Masters	T40: 2001, 2002
U.S. Open	T16: 1994
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 Rankings. 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 70's, before embarking on his four years of college at the University of Alabama. He played for coach Conrad Rehling from 1979-1983.

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 subsequently dropped his ball into the adjacent water hazard). Under PGA rules, Lowery was allowed to replace his ball with no penalty.^[1]

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 albatross (or double eagle) on the 71st hole at the 2002 Sprint International to pull within one point, ultimately losing by one point after missing a birdie putt on the last hole. Coming near the very end of the tournament and affecting 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 Masters in 1935. Two holes before his double eagle, Lowery also holed out a wedge from the fairway for an eagle. His missed birdie putt on the last hole came under rare circumstances as well, for if he made it he would have won the tournament outright, but because he missed it he lost outright (this is not possible in stroke or match play, but was possible under the Modified Stableford scoring system unique to that tournament).

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(s)-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

Nationwide Tour wins (1)

• 1992 Ben Hogan Tulsa Open

References

External links

• Profile on the PGA Tour's official site