Steve Elkington

Steve Elkington is a professional golfer, born on December 8, 1962 at Inverell in New South Wales, Australia. He grew up at Wagga Wagga in the same state and went on to the University of Houston in the United States, where he played on the golf team. While he was there the team won the NCAA Championship in 1982, 1984 and 1985. He turned professional in 1985 and won ten times on the PGA Tour through the 1990s. In 1995, at Riviera Country Club, he took the PGA Championship for his first major, and in the same year he received the Vardon Trophy, given to the player with the year’s lowest scoring average. He won The Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s flagship event, twice, in 1991 and 1997. In 1992 he also won the Australian Open at home, and he played four consecutive Presidents Cups for the International team, from the first match in 1994 through to 2000. Since 2013 he has played on the senior tour in the United States.

As a designer his work is TPC Louisiana at Avondale, near New Orleans in Louisiana. The club’s site says the course was designed by the architect Pete Dye working with the tour player Steve Elkington and with Kelly Gibson, a native of New Orleans. The 18-hole course opened in 2004 and is the home of the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

His link with Asia came in 1996, when he won the Asian Tour’s Honda Invitational, played at Blue Canyon Country Club (Canyon Course) in Phuket, Thailand. That course was designed not by Elkington but by Yoshikazu Kato. GoGolf does not at present list any course Elkington took a hand in designing.

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