Personal

• Enjoys well-deserved reputation as a fierce competitor
• Along with brother, Bobby, kept Richmond, Va., junior championship trophy in the Wadkinses' household for six consecutive years. He won four times, with Bobby taking two titles
• Served as the player consultant on TPC Myrtle Beach, the venue of the Champions Tour season-ending event in 2000
• Biggest thrill in golf was winning the 1977 PGA Championship, and his biggest thrill outside of golf is watching his sons play sports
• Son Travis played some on the Web.com Tour in 2012 after following in his father's footsteps by playing collegiately at Wake Forest. His other son, Tucker, plays golf at the University of Arizona
• Favorite golf course is Pebble Beach GL.

Special Interests

• Bird hunting, scuba diving, watching sons play sports

PGA TOUR Victories (21)

• 1972 Sahara Invitational
• 1973 Byron Nelson Golf Classic, USI Classic
• 1977 PGA Championship, World Series of Golf
• 1979 Glen Campbell-Los Angeles Open, Tournament Players Championship
• 1982 Phoenix Open, MONY Tournament of Champions, Buick Open
• 1983 Greater Greensboro Open, MONY Tournament of Champions
• 1985 Bob Hope Classic, Los Angeles Open, Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic
• 1987 Doral-Ryder Open
• 1988 Hawaiian Open, Colonial National Invitation
• 1990 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic
• 1991 United Hawaiian Open
• 1992 Canon Greater Hartford Open

PGA TOUR Champions Victories (1)

• 2000 ACE Group Classic

International Victories

PGA TOUR Champions (1)

• 2015 PNC Father/Son Challenge [with Travis].

Other Victories

PGA TOUR Champions (8)

• 1968 Southern Amateur.
• 1970 U.S. Amateur, Southern Amateur.
• 1978 Victorian PGA Championship, Canadian PGA Championship.
• 1979 Bridgestone Open.
• 1984 World Nissan Championship.
• 1990 Fred Meyer Challenge [with Bobby Wadkins].