Jim Furyk

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Jim Furyk
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Personnel
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Nickname: Gentleman Jim
Career data
Professional since: 1992
Current tour: PGA tour
Tournament wins: 27
Major wins : 1 (2003)
Awards: Vardon Trophy (2006),
PGA Tour Player of the Year and PGA Player of the Year (2010), Payne Stewart Award (2016)

Jim Furyk (born May 12, 1970 in West Chester , Pennsylvania ) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour . He belongs to the circle of major winners.

Career

Jim Furyk learned the game of golf from his father, Mike, the head pro of Uniontown Country Club near Pittsburgh . After attending the University of Arizona , the talented basketball player decided to pursue a career as a professional golfer in 1992 .

Between 1998 and 2003 Furyk won at least one tournament a year on the PGA TOUR , including his first major - the 2003 US Open - and made it into the top 10 of the golf world rankings . In the 2004 season he was only able to play 14 events because he had to take a three-month break due to a necessary wrist operation. In 2005 and 2006, Furyk was able to make up for what had been missed and consolidate his ranking with further victories and a second place at the 2006 US Open. He finished fourth in the Open Championship , and with his win at the Canadian Open in September 2006, he was second in the golf world rankings. Since then he has consistently been in the top 20 of the world rankings.

At the end of September 2010 he won the final tournament of the PGA TOUR, the Tour Championship . He received 1.35 million US dollars - the highest prize money in golf for a tournament victory. At the same time he won the overall ranking of the series, the so-called FedEx Cup . Furyk received an additional 10 million US dollars from the so-called bonus pool.

Jim Furyk is one of the most successful players on the PGA Tour. He won a total of 70.4 million US dollars (as of March 28, 2019) in his career. Only Tiger Woods , Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh were able to earn more prize money.

Furyk is one of only six players in the history of the US PGA Tour to play a round of 59 (BMW Championship 2013 at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Illinois). On August 7, 2016, Furyk set a tour record when he became the first PGA player to complete a round of 58 with an eagle and ten birdies at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut .

His caddy is Mike "Fluff" Cowen, who previously accompanied Tiger Woods on his way to number 1.

After appearing nine times as a player in the Ryder Cup for the USA, Furyk was named captain of the US selection for 2018 in January 2017.

The game

Jim Furyk is a “short hitter” in the field of PGA professionals - in the “Driving Distance” ranking, the PGA only ranks him 171st (out of 191) with an average of 280 yards for 2012. His strength, however, is playing with the irons: On strokes from the fairway, Furyk achieved an average approximation of the flag of 32 feet and 10 inches, which was rank 3. Even more impressive was his play from the sand: Here he achieved an average approximation of 6 feet and 11 inches to the flag - the best in the field.

The swing movement of Jim Furyk is very unusual: he leads the club extremely steeply over the head during the upswing, whereby the club head does not remain on a plane of a circular path - as is usually taught - and then hits on a much flatter line. The club head therefore describes a very noticeable "loop" in the air, it continues to work with a very intensive use of the lower body. Overall, Jim Furyk's swing seems very restless and complicated, but works extremely reliably.

PGA Tour wins (17)

Major Championship are in bold .

Other tournament victories

Results at major championships

competition 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Masters DNP DNP T29 T28 4th T14 T14 T6 CUT 4th DNP 28 T22 T13 T33
US Open T28 DNP T5 T5 T14 T17 60 T62 CUT 1 T48 T28 T2 T2 T36
The Open Championship DNP DNP T44 4th T4 T10 T41 CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT 4th T12 T5
PGA Championship DNP T13 T17 T6 CUT T8 T72 T7 9 T18 CUT T34 T29 CUT T29
competition 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
The Masters T10 CUT T24 11 T25 T14 CUT DNP CUT DNP DNP
PGA Championship T63 T24 T39 T42 2 T5 T30 T73 CUT T71 CUT
US Open T33 T16 CUT T4 CUT T12 T42 T2 T23 T48 T28
The Open Championship T34 CUT T48 T34 CUT 4th T30 T59 DNP DNP T63

DNP = did not take part
CUT = cut not made
"T" = split placement
Green background for victories
Yellow background for top 10.

Participation in team competitions

See also

Web links

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  1. ↑ PGA Prize Money Statistics (in English). Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Golf: Jim Furyk plays a historic 59th round. In: Spiegel Online . September 14, 2013, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jim Furyk sets PGA Tour record with 58 in final round at Travelers Championship. USA Today, August 7, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Furyk leads US team as captain in Ryder Cup. In: sport.orf.at. January 11, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Furyk, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American golfer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH West Chester , Pennsylvania , United States