The Payne Stewart Award is presented annually by the PGA TOUR to a professional golfer who best exemplifies Stewart's steadfast values of character, charity and sportsmanship.

Gary Koch Gary Koch, six-time PGA Tour winner, wins 2023 Payne Stewart Award - NBC Sports.

As part of the award, $300,000 is donated to a charity of the recipient's choice. Koch has chosen to direct funds to the Gary and Donna Koch Family Foundation, Gift of Adoption's Florida chapter, and First Tee – Tampa Bay.

The Payne Stewart Award is an award given by the PGA Tour and presented by Southern Company since the award's inception in 2000. The award, given annually the week of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club, is in honor of World Golf Hall of Famer Payne Stewart.

At a time of international domination of the golf scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was often the highest-ranked American player. Stewart represented the United States on five Ryder Cup teams (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1999). He also played for the U.S. on three World Cup teams.

Every year CAMWS makes $1,000.00 awards (accompanied by a one-year membership in CAMWS) to a limited number of undergraduate students majoring in Classics at the sophomore or junior level at a CAMWS college or university.

Payne Stewart He won the US Open twice, in 1991 and 1999, and motored past a fading Mike Reid to come from five strokes off the pace with nine holes to play to win the 1989 PGA Championship. He couldn't reproduce the goods at August although - in 14 Masters appearances his best finish was a tie for eighth in 1986.

1989 Call it vintage Payne, who had a flair for the dramatic. He won his first major in 1989, the PGA Championship, by rallying from six strokes back.

Hazeltine Golf Club That stature was solidified when he won his first U.S. Open in an 18-hole Monday playoff over Scott Simpson at Hazeltine Golf Club near Minneapolis in 1991. Majors were no minor matter to Stewart.

Hazeltine Golf Club That stature was solidified when he won his first U.S. Open in an 18-hole Monday playoff over Scott Simpson at Hazeltine Golf Club near Minneapolis in 1991. Majors were no minor matter to Stewart.

So it was that Stewart grabbed Mickelson and cradled his foe's head in his hands and shouted, according to Back9Network, "You're going to be a father!"

On October 25, 1999, Stewart was killed in the crash of a Learjet flying from his home in Orlando, Florida, to Texas for the year-ending tournament, The Tour Championship, held at Champions Golf Club in Houston.