Career highlights

• 2004: Was voted by his peers as the Champions Tour Player of the Year after a career-best five victories, the most wins by any player in a single season since Larry Nelson in 2001
• Also topped the Champions Tour earnings list for 2004 and received the Arnold Palmer Award as the circuit's leading money-winner, with a personal-best $2,306,606, the 10th-highest money total ever
• Played in two PGA TOUR events in Hawaii prior to the Champions Tour's opening tournament, the MasterCard Classic. Was T28 at the Mercedes Championships and then missed the cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii
• Also played in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with his son Kevin and finished T35
• Made an appearance at THE PLAYERS Championship, where he made the cut and finished T66
• Was T21 in defense of his title at the B.C. Open in July
• Played in 21 Champions Tour events and collected a season-high five victories
• Started the Champions Tour year by winning The ACE Group Classic in Naples
• Became the first player since Gil Morgan to win three consecutive starts on the Champions Tour and posted his fifth victory in the process, the first player to win that many events since Larry Nelson in 2001
• Rallied from four strokes back on the final day to win the Bank of America Championship near Boston by four shots. Win became extra special when son Kevin claimed the Lake Erie Charity Classic on the Nationwide Tour in a four-hole playoff just an hour later. It marked the second time a father and son won on the same day in TOUR-sponsored events (David Duval/Bob Duval on 3/28/1999). 2003: Split year between TOUR and Champions Tour, where he gained eligibility in June
• Made the cut in four of 10 events on TOUR but made the most of them with his 13th TOUR victory at the B.C. Open. Fresh from his victory the week before at the Ford Senior Players Championship on the Champions Tour, Stadler came from eight strokes back on the final day to win the B.C. Open. He became just the second player in TOUR history to win both a PGA TOUR and Champions Tour event in the same season, joining Raymond Floyd who won the Doral Ryder Open at age 49 and the GTE North Classic at 50 in 1992. At the age of 50 years, 1 month and 18 days he became the fifth-oldest player to win on the TOUR and the first player over the age of 50 to win since Art Wall won the 1975 Greater Milwaukee Open at the age of 51 years, 7 months and 10 days. With the win he collected $540,000, the largest of his professional career. His previous best was $375,000 the week before at the Ford Senior Players Championship. Stadler posted four rounds in the 60s in a single TOUR event for the first time since the 1995 B.C. Open when he finished T3. It was a family affair for the Stadlers at the B.C. Open. His older son, Kevin, was playing on a sponsor exemption and missed the cut by one and younger son Chris served as his father's caddie
• Won three times on the Champions Tour and had seven top-10s in 14 starts, and was voted Champions Tour Rookie of the Year. 2002: Played with son Kevin for the first time in an official TOUR event at the B.C. Open. T50 at 6-under-par but Kevin missed cut by seven strokes
• Used a 7-iron from 185 yards to ace No. 13 during the third round of THE PLAYERS Championship. 2001: Finished outside the Top 100 for first time in his career
• Used long putter for first time in career at the Shell Houston Open. 2000: His $631,752 season earnings are the most he has won in a single year since 1991 when he made a career-best $827,628
• Came into the season 50 pounds lighter than in 1999
• Nearly won for the first time since the 1996 Nissan Open when he lost in a playoff on the fourth extra hole to Robert Allenby at the Shell Houston Open. One of six top-10s that year. 1999: Played in only 17 events, the fewest since he joined the TOUR in the spring of 1976
• Posted third-place finish at AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. 1997: Posted three top-5s at Nissan Open (second), Buick Invitational (T2) and AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (T5). 1996: Used front-nine 30 en route to Sunday 68 for one-stroke victory at Nissan Los Angeles Open. 1994: Defeated Steve Lowery by a stroke at Buick Invitational of California. 1992: Captured NEC World Series of Golf, 10 years after wining same event, by one stroke over Corey Pavin. 1991: Finished second on money list after winning THE TOUR Championship at Pinehurst No. 2 in playoff with Russ Cochran, his first victory in seven years. 1985: Finished runner-up a career-high three times. Lost playoff to Lanny Wadkins on fifth extra hole at Bob Hope Classic. Finished one behind Mark O'Meara at Hawaiian Open and T2 at Greater Greensboro Open. 1985: Won Byron Nelson Classic by a stroke over David Edwards. 1982: TOUR's leading money-winner, when he won four times
• Captured season-opening Joe Garagiola Tucson Open by three strokes over Vance Heafner and John Mahaffey
• After opening 75, won Masters in playoff over Dan Pohl
• Scored seven-stroke victory over Seve Ballesteros at Kemper Open
• Made up five strokes with closing 65 at World Series of Golf, then defeated Raymond Floyd in playoff. 1981: Earned six-stroke victory at The Kemper Open. 1980: First of 12 TOUR victories came at season-opening Bob Hope Desert Classic
• Won Greater Greensboro Open by six strokes. Amateur: Two-time All-America at University of Southern California
• Defeated David Strawn to win the 1973 U.S. Amateur at Inverness