William Payne Stewart was an American professional golfer. He won eleven PGA Tour events, including three major championships in his career. Stewart’s cumulative tournament score of 264 is, to date, still a record for the lowest aggregate score over 72 holes in the event. He died in an airplane accident at the age of 42 in 2009.
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William Payne Stewart was an American professional golfer. He won eleven PGA Tour events, including three major championships in his career. Stewart was a popular golfer with spectators, who responded enthusiastically to his distinctive clothing. He was reputed to have the biggest wardrobe of all professional golfers and was a favorite of photographers because of his flamboyant attire of ivy caps and patterned pants. He died in an airplane accident at the age of 42 in 2009. Stewart’s cumulative tournament score of 264 is, to date, still a record for the lowest aggregate score over 72 holes in the event, which later became known as the \”Arnold Palmer Invitational\” Stewart’s house was situated adjacent to the 12th tee of the Bay Hill Club course in Orlando, Florida. Stewart won the Hertz Bay Hill Classic in 1987, shooting a third round of 63 and a final round of 65 to beat South African David Frost by three shots. In April 1989, Stewart won the MCI Heritage Golf Classic, with a tournament-record score of 268-under-par. At Kemper Lakes Golf Club, he won the PGA Championship in 1989. Stewart briefly led the U.S. Open in 1986 during the back-nine of the final round at Shinnecock Hills. Stewart had four runner-up finishes on the Pga Tour in 1986. He had two runner- up finishes in 1988, at The Honda Classic and the Provident Classic. Stewart donated his USD 108,000 prize money to a Florida hospital in memory of his father, who died of cancer in 1985.
He also won the 1999 U. S. Open after a playoff against Scott Simpson. Stewart failed to earn a PGA tour card at Qualifying School in his graduation year, so he played on the Asia Golf Circuit for a couple of years. He played collegiate golf at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and graduated in 1979. Stewart and Tracey Ferguson met each other in Kuala Lumpur in 1980 while he was playing on theAsia Golf Circuit. Stewart died in a plane crash in 2009, aged 42, after suffering a heart attack on the way to a golf tournament in Florida. He is survived by his wife, Tracey, and their two children, who were born in 1981 and 1984. Stewart also had a son and a daughter, both of whom are now in their thirties. Stewart is a grandfather and a grandfather-of-two, and a great-grandfather-of two. Stewart played in the 1955 U. S. Open, and won the Walt Disney World Golf Classic by two strokes in 1983. In 1985, Stewart came close to winning The Open Championship, when he finished one stroke behind the champion Sandy Lyle. Stewart came to the 72nd hole with a three-shot lead at the Byron Nelson Golf Classic. He then made a double bogey on the first playoff hole, causing him to lose to Bob Eastwood. Stewart then won the 1989 PGA Championship.
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