Residence: St Simon’s Island, Georgia
DOB: 13/04/1964 |
Davis Love III was born shortly after his father contended at the 1964 Masters.Golf has always been key to Davis Love III’s life having been introduced to the game by his father, Davis Love, Jr. who was a nationally recognised golf coach who was unfortunately killed in a 1988 plane crash.
Love attended the Glynn Academy in Brunswick, Georgia before going on to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1983 to 1985. He was a three-time all-American and all-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) golfer and won 6 titles during his collegiate career, including the ACC tournament championship in 1984. He turned professional in 1985 soon after graduating and has gone on to become one of the all-time money winners on the PGA Tour - currently in 5th place with almost $35½million.
After joining the PGA tour in 1986 he quickly established himself winning his first tour event, the MCI Heritage International, in 1987. He was later to be in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for over 450 weeks and reached a career high of 3rd in September 2003. Davis Love III has 19 PGA tour victories to his name, including wins in golf’s ‘5th’ Major - The Players Championship (TPC) which he won in 1992 and 2003, and the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. His biggest win to date came at the 79th PGA Championship in 1997. Davis strolled to a 5 shot victory with back to back rounds of 66 on the challenging Winged Foot Course in Mamaroneck, New York.
A very popular man on tour with many close friends such as Fred Couples and Jeff Sluman, Davis’ hobbies are hunting, fishing - and riding Harley Davison motorbikes. He is a suspicious man on tour on marking his golf ball with a 1965 or 1966 penny, and uses only white tees. He was also one of the last PGA Tour players to switch from wooden persimmon drivers to metal woods.
Davis Love holds the second longest ever officially recorded drive in competition play in history with a massive drive of 476 yards at the 2004 Mercedes Championships. His drive was 39 yards short of Mike Austin's record.
In 1997, Love published the book Every Shot I Take, which honors his father's lessons on life and golf. The book received the 1997 United States Golf Association's International Book Award.
Davis struggled to find the level of consistency that has been an almost ever present during his PGA Tour career. He has found some degree of consistency towards the end of the season, securing his best 3 finishes of the year in 3 of the last 4 weeks, his best finish being a tie for 3rd at the Turning Stone Resort Championship when he recovered from a 75 in the opening round. |