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Saturday, May 30, 2015

One of the Greats

Calvin Peete won his first PGA Tour event when he was 36. He won a total of 12 tournaments over 8 years, between the ages of 36 and 43.

During that same age span other preeminent golfers won:

16 Arnold Palmer
12 Jack Nicklaus
11 Raymond Floyd
10 Phil Mickelson (and he’s only 39)
10 Greg Norman
9 Gary Player
9 Lee Trevino
8 Mark O’Meara
6 Ben Crenshaw
4 Fred Couples
3 Nick Faldo
1 Tom Watson

Peete won more tournaments between the age of 39 and 43 than any golfer in history: 11.

9 Palmer
7 Norman
6 Floyd
6 O’Meara
5 Trevino
3 Player
3 Nicklaus

Peete passed away on April 29 in Atlanta. Nice line from Michael Bamberger in Sports Illustrated: “It is sometimes said that Peete was Tiger Woods before there was a Tiger Woods. He was not. He was Calvin Peete.”

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