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Billy Andrade
American professional golfer
William Thomas Andrade (born January 25, 1964) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Champions Tour. He was previously a member of the PGA Tour, where he was a four-time winner.
| Billy Andrade | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | William Thomas Andrade | ||
| Born | (1964-01-25) January 25, 1964 (age 60) Bristol, Rhode Island | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Weight | 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st) | ||
| Sporting nationality |  United States | ||
| Residence | Bristol, Rhode Island Atlanta, Georgia | ||
| Spouse | Jody | ||
| Children | Grace, Cameron | ||
| Career | |||
| College | Wake Forest University | ||
| Turned professional | 1987 | ||
| Current tour(s) | PGA Champions Tour | ||
| Former tour(s) | PGA Tour | ||
| Professional wins | 12 | ||
| Highest ranking | 42 (June 2, 2002)[1] | ||
| Number of wins by tour | |||
| PGA Tour | 4 | ||
| PGA Tour Champions | 3 | ||
| Other | 5 | ||
| Best results in major championships | |||
| Masters Tournament | T38: 1999 | ||
| PGA Championship | 6th: 2001 | ||
| U.S. Open | T6: 1992 | ||
| The Open Championship | T13: 2001 | ||
| Achievements and awards | |||
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Andrade was born in Bristol, Rhode Island. He is an American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) alum and 1981 Rolex Junior Player of the Year. [2]
He attended the Providence Country Day School for high school and then made his way to Wake Forest University where he helped lead the Demon Deacons to the 1986 NCAA Championship. He played on the U.S. team in the 1987 Walker Cup, and turned professional in the same year.
He has four wins on the PGA Tour: the 1991 Kemper Open and Buick Classic, the 1998 Bell Canadian Open, and the 2000 Invensys Classic. He was the first golfer to win on the PGA Tour using the Titleist Pro V1 golf ball at the 2000 Invensys Classic at Las Vegas. He has been featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking. Andrade continues to play on a limited basis, and finished T5 at the Sanderson Farms Championship on the PGA Tour in July 2013, earning $114,000. He became eligible to compete on the Champions Tour on January 25, 2014, when he turned 50 years old. He had exempt status on the Champions Tour due to his position on the career earnings money list and his multiple victories on the PGA Tour.
Andrade is also an active contributor to charity. He and fellow PGA Tour professional Brad Faxon received the Golf Writers of America's 1999 Charlie Bartlett Award for their "unselfish contributions to society", and the American Heart Association's 2002 Gold Heart Award in recognition of their charity efforts. Also in 2002, Andrade and Faxon were named winners of the 2002 Ambassadors of Golf Award. Together, they run Billy Andrade/Brad Faxon Charities for Children, Inc., a non-profit organization that, as of 2005, has donated over $3 million to needy children in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts. Since 1999, Andrade and Faxon have also served as hosts of the CVS Charity Classic, a golf tournament held at the Rhode Island Country Club each June, whose proceeds benefit the two players' charity. Every fall Andrade and PGA Tour player Stewart Cink co-host the East Lake Invitational held at East Lake Golf Club which helps to benefit the East Lake Foundation. In 2022, Andrade received the Payne Stewart Award, given annually to a golfer who exemplifies Stewart's values of character, charitable efforts, and sportsmanship.[3]
Andrade resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bristol, Rhode Island, with his wife, Jody, and their children Cameron and Grace. Unusual for a professional golfer, he is also a Democrat.[4]
Andrade has a close friendship with Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax whom he met at La Cumbre Country Club in Santa Barbara, California when Andrade was still a college player. Koufax, an avid golfer, regularly played at Andrade's annual charity golf tournament at Wannamoisett Country Club in Rumford, Rhode Island.[5]
- 1981 Junior World Cup (with Sam Randolph)
- 1983 New England Amateur
- 1986 North and South Amateur, Sunnehanna Amateur
PGA Tour wins (4)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jun 2, 1991 | Kemper Open | −21 (68-64-64-67=263) | Playoff |  Jeff Sluman |
| 2 | Jun 9, 1991 | Buick Classic | −9 (68-68-69-68=273) | 2 strokes | Brad Bryant |
| 3 | Sep 13, 1998 | Bell Canadian Open | −11 (68-69-69-69=275) | Playoff | Bob Friend |
| 4 | Oct 15, 2000 | Invensys Classic at Las Vegas | −28 (67-67-63-67-68=332) | 1 stroke | Phil Mickelson |
PGA Tour playoff record (2–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1991 | Kemper Open | Jeff Sluman |
Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 2 | 1993 | Buick Southern Open | Mark Brooks, Brad Bryant, Bob Estes, John Inman |
Inman won with birdie on second extra hole Andrade, Brooks and Bryant eliminated by birdie on first hole |
| 3 | 1998 | Bell Canadian Open | Bob Friend |
Won with par on first extra hole |
Other wins (5)
- 1987 Rhode Island Open
- 1991 JCPenney Classic (with Kris Tschetter)
- 1992 Fred Meyer Challenge (with Tom Kite)
- 1999 Fred Meyer Challenge (with Brad Faxon)
- 2001 Fred Meyer Challenge (with Brad Faxon)
PGA Tour Champions wins (3)
| Legend |
| Tour Championships (1) |
| Other PGA Tour Champions (2) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apr 26, 2015 | Big Cedar Lodge Legends of Golf (with Joe Durant) |
−19 (63-51-45=159) | 3 strokes |  Sandy Lyle and  Ian Woosnam |
| 2 | Aug 23, 2015 | Boeing Classic | −9 (69-65-73=207) | 1 stroke |  Bernhard Langer |
| 3 | Nov 8, 2015 | Charles Schwab Cup Championship | −14 (65-67-70-64=266) | Playoff | Bernhard Langer |
PGA Tour Champions playoff record (1–3)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2014 | Shaw Charity Classic | Fred Couples |
Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
| 2 | 2015 | Charles Schwab Cup Championship | Bernhard Langer |
Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 3 | 2016 | Allianz Championship |  Esteban Toledo |
Lost to par on third extra hole |
| 4 | 2019 | PURE Insurance Championship | Kirk Triplett |
Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
| Tournament | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | CUT | ||
| U.S. Open | CUT | ||
| The Open Championship | T54 | ||
| PGA Championship | CUT |
| Tournament | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | T54 | 61 | CUT | T38 | ||||||
| U.S. Open | CUT | T6 | T33 | T21 | T23 | T13 | CUT | |||
| The Open Championship | T25 | CUT | CUT | 70 | CUT | |||||
| PGA Championship | T14 | T32 | T12 | CUT | T47 | CUT | CUT | CUT | T44 | CUT |
| Tournament | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | CUT | ||||||
| U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | CUT | ||||
| The Open Championship | T13 | CUT | CUT | ||||
| PGA Championship | 6 | CUT | T10 | CUT | CUT | T41 |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Summary
| Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| U.S. Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 5 |
| The Open Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 |
| PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 8 |
| Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 43 | 20 |
- Most consecutive cuts made – 7 (1991 PGA – 1993 U.S. Open)
- Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)
| Tournament | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Players Championship | CUT | T27 | CUT | T20 | CUT | T8 | CUT | 5 | T35 | T62 |
| Tournament | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Players Championship | CUT | T44 | T4 | T48 | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
Results not in chronological order before 2022.
| Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Tradition | T13 | T23 | T34 | T2 | NT | T10 | T21 | T23 | ||
| Senior PGA Championship | T48 | T34 | T5 | T3 | T45 | T8 | NT | T14 | 72 | T59 |
| U.S. Senior Open | 64 | T5 | T48 | T23 | T16 | T33 | NT | T42 | ||
| Senior Players Championship | T33 | T7 | T25 | T46 | T59 | T18 | T33 | T63 | 58 | |
| Senior British Open Championship | T19 | T9 | T3 | T12 | T24 | NT |
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Amateur
- Eisenhower Trophy: 1986
- Walker Cup: 1987 (winners)
Professional
- CVS Health Charity Classic: 2017 (winners), 2018 (winners)
- "Week 22 2002 Ending 2 Jun 2002" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- "American Junior Golf Association". AJGA Information. Retrieved November 15, 2012.[permanent dead link]
- "Billy Andrade honored with PGA Tour's Payne Stewart Award presented by Southern Company". PGA Tour. July 13, 2022.
- "A Player, Politician, and Musician". Golf Digest. September 22, 2008.
- Auclair, T. J. (October 12, 2017). "How oversleeping led to golfer's lifelong friendship with Sandy Koufax". PGA of America.
- Billy Andrade at the PGA Tour official site
- Billy Andrade at the Official World Golf Ranking official site