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.

2000 Payne Stewart Award 2023 Recipient Since its inception in 2000, Southern Company has presented the Payne Stewart Award alongside the PGA TOUR to a professional golfer who best exemplifies Stewart's steadfast values both on and off the course.

11 times Stewart won 11 times on the PGA Tour and also had 7 international victories. Three of those victories were majors - the PGA Championship in 1989 and the U.S. Open in 1991 and 1999.

Kemper Lakes Golf Club The 1989 PGA Championship was the 71st PGA Championship, held August 10–13 at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Long Grove, Illinois, northwest of Chicago. Payne Stewart won the first of his three major championships, one stroke ahead of runners-up Andy Bean, Mike Reid, and Curtis Strange.

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.

Stewart, 42, won his first major PGA championship in 1989 and his first U.S. Open two years later. But his most dramatic victory in a major tournament occurred in June on the final hole at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina, where he sank a 15-foot par putt to win the U.S. Open by one stroke over Phil Mickelson.

11 times Payne Stewart, an All-American golfer at SMU, was the SWC individual co-champion along with Houston's Fred Couples in 1979. Stewart won 11 times on the PGA Tour and also had 7 international victories. Three of those victories were majors - the PGA Championship in 1989 and the U.S. Open in 1991 and 1999.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR CAREER VICTORIES With 82 all-time PGA TOUR victories, Tiger Woods is tied with Sam Snead for the most wins in PGA TOUR history.

In fact, only Tiger Woods has a better record, the American great having won 22% of the ranking tournaments he has played (93 wins from 421). The current world number one, Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, has an 8.3% success rate (31 from 372).

11 times Stewart won 11 times on the PGA Tour and also had 7 international victories. Three of those victories were majors - the PGA Championship in 1989 and the U.S. Open in 1991 and 1999.