Orville Moody

Orville Moody became a member of the "Super Senior" Tour in 1994, and proceeded to win four events and the money title. Getting off to a fast start was typical of a man known as "Sarge." Fifteen months after joining the Pro Tour in 1967, he won the U.S. Open. He joined the Seniors Tour in 1984 and announced his presence by winning the Daytona Beach Senior Classic and the MONY Tournament of Champions.

The son of a golf course superintendent, Moody began his career at Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City, winning the 1952 state high school golf championship. After few weeks at the University of Oklahoma, he joined the U.S. Army, and got off to another fast start, winning three Korean Opens and the All-Service championship crown. He spent 14 years in the Army, heading up maintenance supervision and instruction at all Army golf courses.

Moody gave up his military career in favor of a trial run at the PGA Tour in 1967. After a few months on the tour the decision to give up the Army wasn't too difficult-he had been making $5,000 a year in the military and his earnings the first year on the tour totaled almost $300,000.

Moody's success on the PGA Tour was limited during the next few years. He toured Japan, played in a few tournaments and eventually took a club pro job in Sulphur Springs, Texas. He won three of his first five tournaments and finished fifth on the money list on his way to a total of 11 Senior Tour victories. In 1989, he became the fourth man to win both the U.S. Open and the U.S. Senior Open.

He had triple bypass heart surgery prior to the 1995 season and still played in 29 events. As of 1998, he ranked 26th on the Seniors all-time money list with $3,249,634.

Moody was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, December 9, 1933 and resides in Lexington, Kentucky.