Jeff Maggert

Jeffrey Allan Maggert (born February 20, 1964) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions.

Jeff Maggert
Personal information
Full name	Jeffrey Allan Maggert
Born	(1964-02-20) February 20, 1964 Columbia, Missouri
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Nationality	United States
Residence	The Woodlands, Texas
Spouse	Michelle Austin Maggert
Children	Matt, Macy, Phillip Austin (step-son), Jake, Madeline
Career
College	Texas A&M University
Turned professional	1986
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour PGA Tour Champions
Professional wins	19
Highest ranking	14 (May 30, 1999)[1]
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	3
European Tour	1
PGA Tour of Australasia	1
Korn Ferry Tour	2
PGA Tour Champions	6
Other	7
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	5th: 2003
PGA Championship	3rd/T3: 1995, 1997
U.S. Open	3rd: 2002, 2004
The Open Championship	T5: 1996
Achievements and awards
Ben Hogan Tour leading money winner 1990 Ben Hogan Tour Player of the Year 1990

Maggert was born in Columbia, Missouri[2] and was raised on a golf course in The Woodlands, Texas, where he attended McCullough High School.[3] He attended Texas A&M University,[2] where he was an All-American member of the golf team.[2]

Maggert turned professional in 1986.[2] He was Player of the Year on the Ben Hogan Tour (now Web.com Tour) in 1990, winning two tournaments, and also played in Asia and Australia with some success. He won the 1989 Malaysian Open and the 1990 Vines Classic, an event on the Australasian Tour. He finished runner-up in the 1992 Vines Classic. Maggert's good play on the Ben Hogan Tour ensured a promotion to the PGA Tour for 1991. He has won three times and finished runner-up 16 times on the PGA Tour.[2] He has represented the United States in the Ryder Cup three times and in the Presidents Cup once.[2]

In April 2003, Maggert was the 54-hole leader at The Masters, having shot a third round of 66 to charge through the field. He endured a disappointing final round, that included a triple bogey on the third hole, after the ball rebounded off the bunker lip and struck him, and then a quintuple bogey on the 12th after finding the water twice. Maggert would finish in solo fifth place, his career best finish at the Masters.

Maggert withdrew from The Players Championship in 2008 after completing one round, when he learned that his older brother, Barry, had died in a single-engine airplane crash in Gilpin County, Colorado.[4]

Maggert is the only golfer to have more than one double eagle or albatross in major championship play (once during the 1994 Masters Tournament and once during the 2001 Open Championship). He has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking, going as high as 13th in 1999.

Maggert started the 2012 season on a medical exemption after shoulder surgery in June. His 2011 season was limited to 18 events, making six cuts. He went to Q School to back up the nine starts and $567,086 on his exemption. Maggert could not satisfy his medical exemption and played the remainder of the 2012 season in the Q School/Nationwide Tour graduate category. He still managed to barely retain a PGA Tour card, finishing 123rd on the money list.

Maggert won on his Champions Tour debut in March 2014 at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, becoming the 17th player to do so.[5] He also became the seventh player to win on all the PGA Tour sponsored major tours (PGA Tour, Web.com Tour, and Champions Tour). He finished the three rounds at 11-under-par, two strokes ahead of Billy Andrade.

In May 2015, Maggert won his maiden senior major championship and second Champions Tour event at the Regions Tradition. After finishing in a tie at 14-under-par after regulation play, he defeated Kevin Sutherland in sudden-death playoff on the first extra hole with a birdie.

The following month, Maggert won his second senior major championship with a two stroke victory over Colin Montgomerie at the U.S. Senior Open. He began the final round tied for the lead with Bernhard Langer, but shot a five-under-par 65 to pull clear of the field and claim the win.

On November 10, 2019, Maggert won the season-ending event on the PGA Tour Champions, the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Maggert won the event in dramatic fashion by holing out a wedge from the fairway for eagle on the third playoff hole, defeating Retief Goosen.[6]