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Experienced winner Sutton joins Snead; Carter is Tour's hottest putter
Posted: Friday April 28, 2000 01:49 PM
It was fitting that Hal Sutton received the Sam Snead Trophy for winning at Greensboro last week. Snead was 52 when he won the tournament for the eighth and final time in 1965. The just turned 42-year-old Sutton is the oldest winner of the event since. Driver's seatThe old cliche that you drive for show and putt for dough doesn't stand up so far this season on the PGA Tour. The three leaders in the putting stats -- Mike Springer, Russ Cochran and Rick Fehr -- are 148th, 63rd and 81st on the money list. Meanwhile, the top three in total driving -- Tiger Woods, David Duval and Hal Sutton -- are first, eighth and second in earnings. Machine on the greensSpeaking of putting, Jim Carter has been giving a clinic in the last two events. After a 95-putt performance at Hilton Head -- the third best total ever achieved in a 72-hole PGA Tour event -- Carter followed with 101 putts at Greensboro. That's an average of 24.5 putts for eight rounds.$16 million manHale Irwin's second place finish at the Las Vegas senior event made him the first player ever to top $16 million in combined earnings on the regular and senior tours. A good portion of the total has come from the 51 six-figure checks he's collected since joining the Senior Tour in June of 1995. While no senior is within shouting distance of Irwin's total, he probably won't hold the top spot for too much longer. Closing in with $14.7 million in earnings is Tiger Woods.
Sports Illustrated senior writer Jaime Diaz covers the golf beat and appears regularly on CNN/Sports Illustrated and CNN's Pro Golf Weekly.
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