Stephen Brent Lowery (born October 12, 1960) is an American

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. Lowery was born in

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. He has

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victories in 1994, 2000 and 2008. All three of his victories on the PGA Tour have come in playoffs. Lowery has been featured in the top 50 of the

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. His best season on the PGA Tour was in 1994, when he finished 12th on the money list. He missed most of 2007 with a wrist injury. The PGA Tour granted him a partial exemption for the 2008 season. He needed to win more than $250,000 during his first eight starts in 2008 in order to re-gain his full exemption on the PGA Tour, but that became a moot point when he won the 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The victory gave him a full two-year exemption. Lowery also won the Birmingham Golf Association Junior and State Junior in the late 1970s, before embarking on his four years of college at the

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. He played for coach Conrad Rehling from 1979-1983, on the Alabama Crimson Tide golf team. Though it was in a losing effort, Lowery played a memorable stretch of golf at The International in 2002. He began his comeback by getting up and down from the water on a "splash" shot, leading to a birdie. He holed out a shot from over 200 yards for a rare

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(or albatross) on the 71st hole to pull within one point, ultimately losing by the same margin after missing a birdie putt on the last hole. Coming near the very end of the tournament and creating such a close finish, Lowery's double eagle was one of the most dramatic in PGA Tour history since

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made a double eagle at 15 in the final round of the

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. Two holes before his double eagle, Lowery also holed out a wedge from the fairway for an eagle.

Amateur wins

''this list may be incomplete'' *1982 Southern Amateur

Professional wins (4)

PGA Tour wins (3)

PGA Tour playoff record (3–0)

Ben Hogan Tour wins (1)

Ben Hogan Tour playoff record (1–0)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (twice) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut
WD = withdrew
DQ = disqualified
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

¹Cancelled due to 9/11
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowery, Steve American male golfers Alabama Crimson Tide men's golfers PGA Tour golfers PGA Tour Champions golfers Korn Ferry Tour graduates Golfers from Birmingham, Alabama 1960 births Living people