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Scott Simpson (USA) hits out of a bunker on the 14th hole during the second round of the U.S. Senior Open at Indianwood Golf and Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports

Scott Simpson has enjoyed success at nearly every stage of a golf career that spans six decades.

He won consecutive NCAA men’s golf titles (1976, 1977), was the recipient of the 1977 Fred Haskins Award as the best male collegiate golfer, played on a Walker Cup team (1977), won seven times on the PGA Tour, including the 1987 U.S. Open (in exactly 600 career starts), represented the Stars and Stripes in the Ryder Cup (1987) and picked a pretty good spot — Pebble Beach — for his one and only PGA Tour Champions triumph.

Simpson last played more than a handful of senior events in 2016 and called it quits in 2020 but as he told Golfweek during an interview at the 2023 Sony Open in Hawaii, he wasn’t the type to sit around in retirement and watch the grass grow.

Here’s more from a riveting conversation with Simpson, who discusses among other things how he ended up in Hawaii coaching the men’s golf team, why nice guys don’t finish last and what happened to his Magnum P.I. mustache.

His lengthy chat with our Adam Schupak is linked here.



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