January 30, 1957 – October 25, 1999
Donned in his unmistakable pinch-billed Ivy caps and checkered knickerbockers, William Payne Stewart dazzled fans and colleagues alike on the PGA Tour for 17 years before his untimely death in 1999. Stewart’s remarkable fashion and amiable personality on the links made him one of the most popular and recognizable figures in golf for most of the late 1980’s and ’90’s. He was known to have a naturally fluid stroke and his trademark victorious one-legged-air-punch-celebration-thingy thrilled spectators and the media.