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Tom Kite's Golf Swing Highlights
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EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on 2002 Champions Tour (Senior) Money List
After wearing glasses since age 12, had LASIK surgery in late January 1998 to correct acute nearsightedness...Serves as a spokesman for Chrysler Junior Golf Scholarship program...Started playing golf at age 6 by following his father around and won his first tournament at 11...
Has worked with such teachers as Harvey Penick, Bob Toski, Peter Kostis, Chuck Cook, Jim McLean, Dave Pelz and Dave Phillips...His daughter, Stephanie, is a gymnast at the University of Alabama and was a member of its national championship squad in 2002...Lists Pebble Beach as his favorite golf course and Michael Jordan as his favorite athlete...Dream foursome would include Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson and Walter Hagen "because they were the best players of all time that I never had a chance to play with."... 
The first car he owned was a 1957 Chevy...Enjoys Mexican food...He and his family have two dogs, Maja, a shepherd mix, and Mulligan, a fox hound...Says the best shot of his career was when he holed his lob wedge for a birdie on the seventh hole at Pebble Beach during the last round of the 1992 U.S. Open since it helped him to a two-stroke win...Would like to continue his golf course design work in the future with his son David joining him.  Tom was co-NCAA champion with Ben Crenshaw (1972); PGA Rookie of Year (1973); PGA Player of Year (1989); finally won 1st major with victory in 1992 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach; captain of 1997 US Ryder Cup team; 19 career PGA wins, played on the Senior tour since 2000, winning five times as of Jan 2003.
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