FULL NAME: Leonard Thompson
HEIGHT: 6-1
WEIGHT: 215
BIRTHDATE: January 1, 1947
BIRTHPLACE: Laurinburg, NC
RESIDENCE: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
FAMILY: Wife, Lea; Marti (6/7/67), Stephen (4/6/74); three grandchilden
EDUCATION: Wake Forest University (1969)
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Fishing
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1971
JOINED TOUR: 1997
PGA TOUR Victories
(3) 1974 Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic. 1977 Pensacola Open. 1989 Buick Open.
Champions Tour Victories
(3) 1998 Coldwell Banker Burnet Classic. 2000 State Farm Senior Classic. 2001 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship.
Current Year Champions Tour Money and Position
$98,689 (40)
Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes
T14--Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf
Current Year Champions Tour Best Round
68 at Round 1, The ACE Group Classic
Best PGA TOUR Finishes
1--1974 Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic. 1977 Pensacola Open. 1989 Buick Open.
Best Champions Tour Finishes
1--1998 Coldwell Banker Burnet Classic. 2000 State Farm Senior Classic. 2001 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship.
Best Nationwide Tour Finishes
6--1996 NIKE Tallahassee Open.
Best 2004 Champions Tour Finishes
T9--Toshiba Senior Classic
2004 Season Champions Tour
Tournaments Entered--26; in money--25; Top 10 finishes--1
2004 Season Highlights
Finished 60th on the money list, with a Champions Tour career-low $228,672...Posted lone top-10 finish in March when he fashioned three straight sub-par rounds to finish T9 at the Toshiba Senior Classic...Slipped in Driving Accuracy from 18th in 2003 to 37th.
Career Highlights
2003: Made just 25 starts, the fewest events he's played in a season since joining the Champions Tour...Had both of his top-10 finishes in the first third of the campaign...Shared the first-round lead at the Emerald Coast Classic, thanks to a Champions Tour career-low-tying round of 63. Eventually T2 in the event after posting a final-round 66 at The Moors. Credited a change to the long putter for his runner-up performance in Pensacola, his best overall effort since winning near St. Louis in May 2001. 2002: T5 at the BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland on the strength of a closing 5-under 67 at Springhouse GC. 2001: Claimed his third career Champions Tour title when he bested Vicente Fernandez, 2-up, in the final of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship near St. Louis. Victory was worth a career-best $300,000 and also avenged his loss to Fernandez in the finals of the unofficial 2000 Chrysler Senior Match Play Championship in Puerto Rico. Played 104 competitive holes on his way to the victory, the most of any player in the field. 2000: Collected his second Champions Tour crown when he ended almost a two-year victory drought with victory at the State Farm Senior Classic in Columbia, MD. Birdied the third playoff hole to defeat Isao Aoki at Hobbit's Glen. 1999: Recorded his two best efforts of the campaign in first third of the season...Closed with a final-round 66 at the Royal Caribbean Classic to finish T3...Shot two rounds of 70 at Desert Mountain and T3 at The Tradition after the event was shortened to 36 holes. 1998: Won the rain-shortened Coldwell Banker Burnet Classic. Birdied the second hole of a sudden-death playoff to defeat Isao Aoki for the title at Bunker Hills GC. 1997: As a rookie, played in 30 events and two of those appearances were as a Monday qualifier (Toshiba Senior Classic and Nationwide Championship)...T5 at the U.S. Senior Open at Olympia Fields CC outside of Chicago.
Personal
Played collegiately at Wake Forest University, where he was a teammate of Joe Inman and Lanny Wadkins...Inducted into Wake Forest Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997...Has worked with instructor Jimmy Ballard...Got started in golf by his father...His hero is fellow Wake Forest product Arnold Palmer...Was a standout high school basketball player who turned down scholarship opportunities to play college golf...His daughter is an attorney and his son is a biomedical engineer...Lists "The Andy Griffith Show" as his favorite TV program and basketball star Tim Duncan as his favorite athlete...Best friend on the Champions Tour is Bill Kratzert.
Champions Tour Playoff Record
2-0
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)
FULL NAME: Leonard Thompson
HEIGHT: 5-2
WEIGHT: 150
BIRTHDATE: June 6, 1966
BIRTHPLACE: Lucas, KS
RESIDENCE: Sandalwood, CA
FAMILY: NONE
EDUCATION: Chemeketa Community College
SPECIAL INTERESTS: The elmination of interest in music due to the music itself
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1991
JOINED TOUR: 2001
PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT: Ranking Pink higher than Norma O'Malley in the Arts & Leisure section of the Trillin Gazette
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: The Internet
LISTENING TO:
Soft Rock Hits Of The 70's, Fiery Furnaces and REM.
― Leonard Thompson (Grodd), Saturday, 7 May 2005 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)