Steve Stricker – PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year
In Edgerton Wisconsin, February 23, 1967, Steve Stricker was born. In the world he is currently the No. 2 golfer right behind Tiger Woods. On the Canadian Professional Golf tour he started his career before moving on over to the PGA tour and won two different tournaments.
Stricker won Kemper Open and Motorola Western Open in 1996 and in 1994 he started his PGA Tour. Steve lost out to Vijay Singh after Singh pulled it together on the back nine holes in the final PGA Championship round, in Washington.
U.S. Open played at Pinehurst, in 1999, Steve Stricker finished in fifth place. In 2001, in Australia, he beat out Pierre Fulke for the WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship and this match alone had prize money worth $1 million.
Stricker, in 2004, went into an era of mediocrity. In 2006, he started to pull it back together again and he became the PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year. He continued improving his form and in 2007 he went on to win at The Barclays.
In 2009, the Crowne Plaza Invitational, John Deere Classic and the Deutsche Bank Championship were won by Stricker. Tiger Woods was ousted off the FedEx Cup Standings and Stricker solidified his spot as number two in the world.
In 2010 Northern Trust Open, most recently, Stricker won by beating out Phil Mickelson. With the return of Tiger Woods golf season will definitely become more interesting. Against the number one golfer in the world, he can try and prove himself.
