James Driscoll

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James Driscoll
Personal information
Born (1977-10-09) October 9, 1977 (age 47)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight185 lb (84 kg)
Sporting nationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Career
College University of Virginia
Turned professional2001
Current tour(s) Korn Ferry Tour
Former tour(s) PGA Tour
Professional wins3
Number of wins by tour
Korn Ferry Tour2
Other1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament CUT: 2001
PGA Championship DNP
U.S. Open CUT: 2005
The Open Championship CUT: 2009, 2012

James Driscoll (born October 9, 1977) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour.

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Early life

Driscoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of seven children. He grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, outside Boston. He started golf at a young age and won the club championship at his home club of Charles River at age 15. A year later, he won the Massachusetts Junior Championship. He then went on to win the Massachusetts State Amateur Championship in 1996 at the age of 18, becoming the youngest-ever winner of the tournament, and again in 1998. [1] By the summer of 1996 Driscoll was the second-ranked junior in the country, and made the final of the U.S. Junior, losing to Scott Hailes. [2]

Driscoll attended Brookline High School and then attended The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, for a postgraduate year. [3]

Amateur career

Driscoll attended the University of Virginia where he was a three-time All-American, won the 1998 Golf Digest Invitational, and tied the school record for career top-10 finishes (23). He reached the final of the 2000 U.S. Amateur at Baltusrol Golf Club by upsetting Luke Donald in the semifinals. In the final against Jeff Quinney, he came back from three down with three to play to force extra holes, but lost on the 39th hole. His runner-up finish gave him an invitation to the 2001 Masters Tournament. At the Masters, Driscoll fired a 68 in the first round, marking the best opening round by an amateur since Ken Venturi's 66 in 1956. His playing partner Tom Watson said, "This was the best round I've seen here by an amateur." [2] Driscoll shot 78 in the second round to miss the cut by one stroke. He was a member of the 2001 Walker Cup team.

Professional career

Driscoll turned professional in 2001. He won his first professional title at the 2004 Virginia Beach Open on the Nationwide Tour. This propelled him to a seventh-place finish on the money list, giving him a PGA Tour card for 2005. Aided by a playoff loss to Tim Petrovic at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, in which he missed a birdie putt on the final green of regulation for the win, he finished 100th on the PGA Tour money list in his rookie season, thereby retaining his card for 2006, but he lost his card after his second season. In 2007 he finished 24th on the Nationwide Tour money list to again earn promotion. He had his second runner-up finish at the 2009 Valero Texas Open, where he lost to Zach Johnson in a playoff. He retained status through the end of the 2014 season, after which he returned to the second tier, by then known as the Web.com Tour. After finishing outside the top 100 on the Web.com Tour money list in 2015, he expected to have to go to Q School, but was informed by the PGA Tour that he was eligible for a one-time exemption on the Web.com Tour available to players who had been exempt on the PGA Tour for five consecutive years in either of the first two seasons after losing fully exempt status. [4] Playing on this exemption for the 2016 season, he won his second career Web.com Tour title at the Nashville Golf Open.

Amateur wins

Professional wins (3)

Web.com Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1Sep 12, 2004 Virginia Beach Open −15 (70-69-66-68=273)4 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Jason Buha, Flag of the United States.svg Kyle Thompson,
Flag of the United States.svg Jimmy Walker
2Jun 19, 2016 Nashville Golf Open −19 (65-68-69-67=269)3 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Brian Campbell

Web.com Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 2004 Northeast Pennsylvania Classic Flag of the United States.svg D. A. Points Lost to par on first extra hole

Other wins (1)

Playoff record

PGA Tour playoff record (0–2)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 2005 Zurich Classic of New Orleans Flag of the United States.svg Tim Petrovic Lost to par on first extra hole
2 2009 Valero Texas Open Flag of the United States.svg Zach Johnson Lost to birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships

Tournament200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012
Masters Tournament CUT
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship CUTCUT
PGA Championship
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

See also

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References

  1. Past winners of the Massachusetts Amateur Championship Archived 2008-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 Shipnuck, Alan (April 16, 2001). "Family Style: Despite Missing The Cut, amateur James Driscoll had a week that he and his clan won't soon forget". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on December 2, 2012. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
  3. James Driscoll Finds Game [ permanent dead link ]
  4. Prise, Kevin (June 20, 2016). "Takeaways: Driscoll's path changed by phone call". PGA Tour.