Sugar Bowl

Hal Sutton, the star golfer on the PGA Tour, was selected as the Sugar Bowl’s Outstanding Professional Athlete for Louisiana for 1983. It's his second consecutive year being honored. The New Orleans Sports Awards Committee, sponsored by the Sugar Bowl, selects annual award winners in a variety of categories; it also selects the Sugar Bowl Athletes of the Month and each year’s New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame class. 

Sutton was selected as the state's top pro athlete after a sensational 1983 campaign when he wound up as pro golf's leading money winner and named "Pro Golfer of the Year."

The Shreveport product in only his second year on the pro tour was the top money winner earning $426,668. Sutton's two 1983 victories came in two of the year's top tournaments – the PGA and the Tournament Players Championship.

The New Orleans Sports Awards Committee began in 1957 when James Collins spearheaded a group of sports journalists to form a sports awards committee to immortalize local sports history. For 13 years, the committee honored local athletes each month. In 1970, the Sugar Bowl stepped in to sponsor and revitalize the committee, leading to the creation of the New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame in 1971, honoring 10 legends from the Crescent City in its first induction class.
 

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