Fred Couples career in photos on PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions, Masters

Fred Couples has long been one of the most popular players in pro golf.

Known for his smooth swing and prodigious length, “Boom Boom,” born on Oct. 3, 1959, turned 65 in 2024.

Couples has a long and storied career to look back on.

Couples has 15 PGA Tour wins on his resume, including the 1992 Masters. He won the Players Championship twice, in 1984 and 1996. His last PGA Tour win was the 2003 Shell Houston Open in his 622nd start. He later won 14 times in 153 starts on the PGA Tour Champions. His most recent Champions win was in 2022, when he carded 12 birdies and closed with a 60.

Couples holds the mark for the oldest golfer to make the cut at the Masters, which he did in 2023. Ahead of the 2024 tournament, he vowed if he shot 80 or higher, he’d hang up the spikes, but then went out and shot a first-round 80. Afterwards, he had a change of heart and promised to be back in 2025 and maybe in 2026.

And that, no doubt, makes the patrons at Augusta National happy.

In 2001, Couples revealed he was the lone Masters champ to not have donated a club to the Club. He ended up finding the driver – a MacGregor Eye 85 which had a persimmon wood head – that he used that year.

In 2010, he became a style icon when he wore a pair of Ecco Street golf shoes while playing the Masters.

Couples has been a vice captain at the Ryder Cup twice (2020, 2023) and U.S. captain at the Presidents Cup three times (2009, 2011, 2013). The U.S. won all three of those cups.

Take a look at some photos of Fred Couples through the years.