Brandt Snedeker
| Brandt Snedeker | |
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| — Golfer — | |
At the 2012 Tour Championship
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Brandt Newell Snedeker |
| Born |
December 8, 1980 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Residence | Franklin, Tennessee |
| Spouse | Mandy Snedeker (m. 2008) |
| Children | Lilly (b. 2011) Austin (b. 2012) |
| Career | |
| College | Vanderbilt University |
| Turned professional | 2004 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Professional wins | 12 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 8 |
| European Tour | 1 |
| PGA Tour of Australasia | 1 |
| Web.com Tour | 2 |
| Other | 1 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | T3: 2008 |
| U.S. Open | 8th/T8: 2010, 2015 |
| The Open Championship | T3: 2012 |
| PGA Championship | T12: 2015 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| PGA Tour Rookie of the Year |
2007 |
| FedEx Cup Champion | 2012 |
Brandt Newell Snedeker (born December 8, 1980) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2012 FedEx Cup with a victory in the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. After this victory, he moved into the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career. In February 2013, after winning the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, he moved to a career high of number four in the world.
Snedeker was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Larry and Candice Snedeker. He was introduced to golf by his maternal grandmother, who managed a golf course in Missouri. He attended Harding Academy, Montgomery Bell Academy and then Vanderbilt University, where he was initiated into Kappa Alpha Order by the Chi Chapter. He won the U.S. Amateur Public Links in 2003 before turning professional in 2004.
Snedeker played on the Nationwide Tour from 2004 until 2006, when he finished 9th on the tour money list after victories at the Showdown at Somerby and the Permian Basin Charity Golf Classic, thus earning a PGA Tour spot for 2007. While on the Nationwide Tour, Snedeker recorded two wins, two runners-up, 12 tops 10s and earned $549,564.
Snedeker garnered immediate attention in January 2007 after shooting a course record equaling 61 in the first round of the Buick Invitational. He led the tournament by three strokes after 36 holes but due to a 74 in the third round he finished in third place. He made eight consecutive cuts starting at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in January and ending at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March. In that span he recorded three top-25 finishes. In four tournaments in April, he made two cuts including a finish of T16 at the Verizon Heritage. From May to early June, Snedeker made the cut in two of the four tournaments he entered, including a T12 finish at the prestigious Players Championship.
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