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Encyclopedia > Allen Doyle

Allen Doyle (born July 26 1948 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American golfer who is a leading player on the Champions Tour, the world's leading tour for senior golfers. Woonsocket is a city located in Providence County, Rhode Island. ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor sport where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA TOUR, hosts 30 events annually in the United States and Canada for golfers 50 and older. ... // Introduction Professional golf is one of the more lucrative sports in the world for both men and women, but it is has a very different structure from other sports, especially team sports. ...


Doyle attended Norwich University. Exceptionally for a future leading professional, despite winning numerous amateur titles, he did not turn pro until he was 46. In 1995 he won three times on the second tier Nike Tour. He became eligible to play on the Senior PGA Tour when he turned fifty in July 1998, and quickly found success, winning four official money events in 1999 including one the Senior PGA Championship, which is one of the senior majors. In 2001 he won his second senior major, the Senior Players Championship, and topped the Seniors Tour money list. In 2005 he claimed a third major at the most lucrative tournament in senior golf, the U.S. Senior Open, erasing a nine stroke deficit with a 63 in the final round. His career earnings on the Champions Tour exceed 11 million U.S. dollars. This article needs to be wikified. ... The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the PGA TOUR, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that levels Qualifying School (the main tours qualifying tournament, popularly referred to as Q-School) or who have done so but then failed to... The Senior PGA Championship is one of the major championships in mens senior golf. ... Mens professional senior golf is for players aged fifty and above. ... The Senior Players Championship is one of the major championships in mens senior golf. ... The U.S. Senior Open is one of the major championships in mens senior golf. ...


Doyle is a member of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame.


Professional wins

Nike Tour

  • 1995 Nike Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic, Nike Texarkana Open, Nike Tour Championship

Champions Tour

Senior majors are shown in bold. The Senior PGA Championship is one of the major championships in mens senior golf. ... The Senior Players Championship is one of the major championships in mens senior golf. ... The U.S. Senior Open is one of the major championships in mens senior golf. ...


Other senior tournaments

  • 1999 Senior Slam
  • 2001 Senior Slam

See also

Golfers with most Champions Tour major championship wins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

External links

  • Profile on the PGA Tour's official site
  • Golf Stars Online - links to features and articles

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Angel/Allen Francis Doyle - The TV IV (690 words)
Allen Francis Doyle, commonly referred to as just Doyle, was Angel's orignal link to "The Powers That Be." He is credited as series regular for the first ten episodes, seen in a previously in Parting Gifts, and on videotape in the series's centennial episode, You're Welcome.
Doyle plays a pivotal role in the show even after his death, as his powers of premonition are transferred over to Cordelia in Hero, and later on to Angel in You're Welcome.
Shortly after Harry fled from their marriage, Doyle was faced with another Brachen demon, hoping to seek sanctuary with Doyle for his clan, who was being hunted by the Scourage, a militant group of pure-blood demons that ethnicly cleanse half-breeds like the Brachens.
The 64th Annual Senior PGA Championship / News / Interview / Alan Doyle (1549 words)
ALLEN DOYLE: Well, yeah, the way I started out I thought I was going to swap the bogeys for birdies and I had four birdies on the front nine and only turned 1-under.
ALLEN DOYLE: The process was I had to put blinders on and I had to put earplugs in my ears because everyplace I went, they'd snicker and they'd scratch their heads and they'd wonder how it happened.
ALLEN DOYLE: Oh, yeah, where I caddied there was an old pro there and all the assistants always were trying to change me, and he would see this process and he grabbed me aside one day, he said two things.
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