What is the Payne Stewart Award?
Category: Champions of the Game
Clue
It’s given in honor of World Golf Hall of Famer, Payne Stewart, who won 11 times on the PGA TOUR.
Answer
The Payne Stewart Award is an annual award given to a player whose "values align with the character, charity and sportsmanship that Stewart showed''. It also includes respect for the traditions of the game.
More about the Payne Stewart Award
The award was introduced in 2000. It is given annually in the week of the Tour Championship.
Payne Stewart Award winners
- 2021 Justin Rose
- 2020 Zach Johnson
- 2019 Hale Irwin
- 2018 Bernhard Langer
- 2017 Stewart Cink
- 2016 Jim Furyk
- 2015 Ernie Els
- 2014 Nick Faldo
- 2013 Peter Jacobsen
- 2012 Steve Stricker
- 2011 David Toms
- 2010 Tom Lehman
- 2009 Kenny Perry
- 2008 Davis Love III
- 2007 Hal Sutton
- 2006 Gary Player
- 2005 Brad Faxon
- 2004 Jay Haas
- 2003 Tom Watson
- 2002 Nick Price
- 2001 Ben Crenshaw
- 2000 Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer