Sutton came out of the gate in a flurry, winning seven times in his first five years on the PGA Tour. In 1983, he won both the Tournament Players Championship and the PGA Championship to lead the money list and was dubbed the Bear-apparent". After 1986, Sutton's fortunes fell off, reaching a low point in the 1992 season when he earned less than $40,000. Sutton would regain some of his lost form in the years that followed, topping off his resurgence with a win at the B.C. Open in 1995. Sutton was the U.S. amateur champion in 1980 and a two-time member of the Walker Cup team for the U.S. In 2007 he received the Payne Stewart Award. He won it for his charitable efforts which include the establishment of the Christus Schumpert Sutton Children's Hospital in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana."
