Scott Simpson (USA) hits out of a bunker on the 14th gap throughout the second spherical of the U.S. Senior Open at Indianwood Golf and Nation Membership. Obligatory Credit score: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports activities
Scott Simpson has loved success at practically each stage of a golf profession that spans six a long time.
He gained consecutive NCAA males’s golf titles (1976, 1977), was the recipient of the 1977 Fred Haskins Award as one of the best male collegiate golfer, performed on a Walker Cup staff (1977), gained seven occasions on the PGA Tour, together with the 1987 U.S. Open (in precisely 600 profession begins), represented the Stars and Stripes within the Ryder Cup (1987) and picked a reasonably great spot — Pebble Seaside — for his one and solely PGA Tour Champions triumph.
Simpson final performed greater than a handful of senior occasions in 2016 and known as it quits in 2020 however as he instructed Golfweek throughout an interview on the 2023 Sony Open in Hawaii, he wasn’t the kind to take a seat round in retirement and watch the grass develop.
Right here’s extra from a riveting dialog with Simpson, who discusses amongst different issues how he ended up in Hawaii teaching the lads’s golf staff, why good guys don’t end final and what occurred to his Magnum P.I. mustache.
His prolonged chat with our Adam Schupak is linked right here.
