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"Mr. Accuracy"
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Mr.
Peete is still listed number one in Driving Accuracy percentage having
played in 56 events on the Senior PGA Tour his average of 80.9% still
leads the pack. Mr. Peete led the Senior Tour in driving accuracy, a
category he dominated on the PGA Tour for 10 consecutive years
(1981-90), with an 81.4 percent mark in 1994. The winner of 11
tournaments in a five-year stretch on the PGA Tour he was super during
that stretch and finished with 12 career victories. Mr. Peete's
most prestigious victory came at the 1985 Tournament Players
Championship. During 1982 Mr. Pete won four times at PGA events. Mr.
Peete only the second African American to play on the United States
Ryder Cup team, played in both the 1983 and '85 Ryder Cups.
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