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Home > Golf > Champions Tour Players > Tony Sills
Tony Sills
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for atleast five centuries in the British Isles.The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. The Tour Championship is the final event of golf's PGA Tour season. The top 30 money winners on the PGA Tour after the penultimate event qualify for the Championship, which is one of the richest tournaments on the tour.
Tony Sills was born in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He has one PGA Tour victory to his name which is the 1990 Independent Insurance Agent Open. His best Nationwide Tour Finish is a Tied 8th at the 1996 NIKE Olympia Open.
He played the PGA Tour on a full-time basis from 1983 to 1998, making 336 starts and 173 cuts. He had his best season in 1986 when he finished 38th on the money list, with 216,881 US dollars. He was among the top 10 in 13 of 29 official starts that season. His lone PGA Tour victory came at the 1990 Independent Insurance Agent Open in Houston, Texas, United States of America. He birdied four of the last five holes on his way to a 7-under 65 to force a playoff with Gil Morgan at the TPC, Tournament Players Course, at The Woodlands in Texas. Then defeated Morgan with a par on the first extra hole. First exposure to the game was at the age of 5 when his dad started to play for health reasons.
He attempted to qualify for the PGA Tour six times before finally securing his card at the TPC at Sawgrass in the fall of 1982. He was a winner of the 1971 Los Angeles City Junior title, the 1976 Southern California Amateur and the 1981 Queen Mary Open. His favorite golf course is Cypress Point. Also enjoys, Seinfeld, Dr. Strangelove and entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. He has never made a hole-in-one, but his daughter, Emily, has made one. One of his superstitions is never marking his ball with a nickel. His heroes are Arnold Palmer and Ronald Reagan. He has worked as an equipment representative on the Champions Tour for the Putting Arc, Winn Grips and Harrison Shafts.
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