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David Robert Duval (born November 9, 1971) is an American professional golfer and former World No. 1 Golfer who competed on the PGA Tour and currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. Duval won 13 PGA Tour tournaments between 1997 and 2001; including one major title, The Open Championship in 2001.
Duval received his PGA Tour card in 1995, earning it after becoming two-time ACC Player of the Year, 1993 National Player of the Year, and playing two years on the Nike Tour (where he won twice). Between 1997 and 2000, Duval finished all four seasons top-5 on the PGA Tour's money list, including being the leading money winner and scoring leader in 1998. In addition to his major title, he also won the 1997 Tour Championship and the 1999 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 in 2011. After his professional golf career slowed, he became a golf analyst. He is now competing on the Champions Tour.
When David was nine, his brother Brent developed aplastic anemia. The family sought treatment at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where David underwent surgery to donate bone marrow. The transplant was not successful, and Brent died as a result of sepsis 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. In 1993, just as Duval was starting his professional golf career, his father again moved out of the family home, this time permanently.
The following season, in 1998, Duval won four tournaments and led the PGA Tour money list. He also won the Vardon Trophy and Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average.
Early in 1999, he achieved the number one spot in the Official World Golf Ranking and shot a 59 in the final round of the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic on the Palmer Course at PGA West in La 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 and Chip Beck, had posted a 59 in competition and no one had ever done so in a final round. Later, in the spring, he won the 1999 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 a Champions Tour event that same day. He also played on the victorious 1999 Ryder Cup team. He finished the season second on the money list only behind Tiger Woods.
The following season, in 2000, he won the Buick Challenge and finished in the top ten of the money list. The following year he won the 2001 Open Championship. Duval's winning speech was welcomed by British commentators as "delightfully modest and heartfelt". He also won the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament, an event on the Japan Golf Tour, at the end of the year.
Many commentators believed Duval's career to be over but he returned to golf at the U.S. Open in 2004, 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 in 2004 and a T-16 at the U.S. Open in 2006. He made the cut in only one PGA Tour event in 2005 but did finish in the top ten at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan.
After a steady start to 2007 during the West Coast Swing, Duval once again disappeared from the tour. His mother died on July 17, 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 the 2008 Open Championship, rekindling memories of his major victory. He shot 73-69-83-71 for the week and finished T-39.
In 2009, Duval used his final career money exemption on the PGA Tour. He made his first cut at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in February. However, he stormed back onto the golf scene with a T-2 finish at the U.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 winner Lucas 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 2002 Memorial Tournament. After the Open, Duval jumped 740 spots in the Official World Golf Ranking from 882 to 142.
Duval failed to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2010 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 champion Dustin Johnson at the 2010 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Duval had a good 2010 season and retained his tour card at the end of the year.
The 2011 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 to Q School in an attempt to regain his tour card, but finished T72 in the final round. For 2012, 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 the U.S. Open, having failed to qualify for the 2nd major of the season.
In December 2013, Duval announced via his Twitter that the 2014 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. In April 2014, Duval finished tied for 25th (−8) at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
In 2018, U.S. captain Jim Furyk named Duval as a non-playing vice-captain for the U.S. team participating in the 2018 Ryder Cup. The U.S. team lost to Europe by 17½ points to 10½.
He met Susan Persichitte in August 2003 at a Denver restaurant while in town for The International tournament. They were engaged in November and married in 2004. They have two children together: Brady, born in 2005; and Sienna, born in 2008. She has custody of her three older children from a prior marriage: Deano, Nick, and Shalene Karavites. Their home is in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, a suburb south of Denver.
Duval is a registered Democrat. He was one of the few Democrats on the PGA Tour during his career.
| Major championships (1) |
| Players Championships (1) |
| Tour Championships (1) |
| Other PGA Tour (10) |
| 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)
| 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 |
| 1 | Nov 11, 2001 | Dunlop Phoenix Tournament | −15 (65-67-68-69=269) | Playoff | Taichi Teshima |
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–0)
| 1 | 2001 | Dunlop Phoenix Tournament | Taichi Teshima | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| Tour Championships (1) |
| Other Nike Tour (0) |
| 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 |
| World Golf Championships (1) |
| Other wins (3) |
| 1 | Aug 25, 1998 | Fred Meyer Challenge (with Jim Furyk) | −18 (65-61=126) | 4 strokes | Steve Elkington and Craig Stadler, Scott McCarron and Paul Stankowski |
| 2 | Nov 14, 1999 | Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout (with Fred Couples) | −32 (61-62-61=184) | 6 strokes | Scott Hoch and Scott McCarron |
| 3 | Dec 10, 2000 | WGC-World Cup (with Tiger Woods) | −34 (61-65-60-68=254) | 3 strokes | − Ángel Cabrera and Eduardo 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)
| 1 | 2001 | WGC-World Cup (with Tiger Woods) | − Thomas Bjørn and Søren Hansen, − Michael Campbell and David Smail, − Retief Goosen and Ernie Els | South Africa won with par on second extra hole New Zealand and United States eliminated by birdie on first hole |
| Niclas Fasth |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Masters Tournament | CUT | ||||||||
| U.S. Open | T70 | ||||||||
| The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | T49 | WD | CUT | WD |
| PGA Championship |
| 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 to COVID-19 pandemic
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| Scott Gump |
| The Players Championship | CUT | T4 | T43 | T18 | 1 |
| The Players Championship | T13 | T28 | CUT | CUT | CUT |
| The Players Championship | CUT |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
| WGC-Match Play | R32 | 3 | R64 | R64 | |
| WGC-Championship | NT1 | T46 | |||
| WGC-Invitational | T27 | 27 | T28 |
1Cancelled due to 9/11
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament
| 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
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