Jay Delsing | |
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Personal information | |
Born | St. Louis, Missouri | October 17, 1960
Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
Weight | 210 lb (95 kg; 15 st) |
Sporting nationality | United States |
Career | |
College | UCLA |
Turned professional | 1984 |
Current tour(s) | Champions Tour |
Former tour(s) | PGA Tour Nationwide Tour |
Professional wins | 4 |
Number of wins by tour | |
Korn Ferry Tour | 2 |
Other | 2 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | T63: 1990 |
U.S. Open | T33: 1992 |
The Open Championship | T88: 1995 |
Jay Delsing (born October 17, 1960) is an American professional golfer.
Delsing was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Delsing's father, Jim, was an outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, and Kansas City A's from 1948 to 1960.
Delsing grew up in the North County Area of the St. Louis region. He learned golf at the now demolished North Shore Country Club that formerly was on the banks of the Mississippi River near the historic Chain of Rocks Bridge.
Delsing played college golf at UCLA with Corey Pavin, Steve Pate, Tom Pernice Jr., and Duffy Waldorf. He is third all-time in tournament victories for UCLA men's golf with seven. This includes four victories in the 1981–82 season. He is only behind Pavin's 11 and Waldorf's 9. [1]
He was second-team All-Pac-10 in 1981, and first-team in 1982 and 1983. He was a key member of two Pacific-10 title teams. He earned first-team All-America honors in 1982 and second team in 1983. [2] He graduated from UCLA in 1983 with a degree in economics.
Delsing competed in 565 PGA Tour events in his career. His best finishes on the PGA Tour are a T2 at the 1993 New England Classic and the 1995 FedEx St. Jude Classic. He also had 3 third-place finishes, 11 top-5 finishes and 30 top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour. [3]
Delsing currently ranks 15th in PGA Tour history with 5 hole-in-one. [4] His most famous came at the Phoenix Open in 1991 [5] on the 16th hole. While playing a practice round for a corporate function at Greystone Golf Club [6] in Ontario, California, Delsing made a hole-in-one on the 301 yard par-4, 15th hole. The club added a plaque to commemorate the accomplishment.
In the second round of the 1985 B.C. Open, Delsing tied the course record, [7] set by Fuzzy Zoeller in 1982, by shooting a −9 round of 62. The tournament was held at the En-Joie Golf Club in Endicott, New York. The course record stood until Kevin Sutherland shot a 59 at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open on the Champions Tour in 2014.
In the fourth round of the 1993 Federal Express St. Jude Classic, Delsing set a course record that still stands by shooting a −10, 61. [8]
In the second round of 2002 Buy.com Tour Championship, Delsing set a tournament record with a –9, 63 on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama. [9]
Delsing has appeared in 14 tournaments on the PGA Champions Tour. [10] He has made the cut in all 14. In 2015, he competed in the U.S. Senior Open at Del Paso Country Club in Sacramento, California while simultaneously covering the event as an on course commentator for Fox Sports. He finished the tournament tied for 54th place.
In 2015, Delsing joined Fox Sports as an on-course commentator and broadcaster. [11]
Since 2019, Delsing has hosted Golf with Jay Delsing on 101.1 ESPN Radio in St. Louis Missouri. His current co-host is Dan McLaughlin, the long-time TV voice of the St. Louis Cardinals on Bally Sports.
In 2020 Delsing was inducted in to the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame. Upon his induction he said “There is one thing I learned long ago: our days on the golf course are special not because of the quality of the golf that we play, but because of the quality of the people that we play with.” [12]
In 2023 Delsing was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame for his career and life in golf. He spoke about the people that helped his career in golf at his induction. “My entire family was really important as a youngster,” he said. “In college Corey Pavin and Steve Pate were extremely important to me. As a pro Andy North helped me early in my career and Bob Rotella was a huge factor. My brother, Bart, and my close friends Tim Twellman and John Perles have had the most positive impact overall in my career.” [13]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | Aug 12, 2001 | Buy.com Fort Smith Classic | −17 (66-66-66-65=263) | Playoff | Jeff Freeman |
2 | Aug 4, 2002 | Omaha Classic | −21 (66-66-67-68=267) | 1 stroke | Anthony Painter |
Buy.com Tour playoff record (1–0)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2001 | Buy.com Fort Smith Classic | Jeff Freeman | Won with par on fourth extra hole |
Tournament | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
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U.S. Open | CUT | T33 | CUT | ||||||||||||||
The Open Championship | T88 | ||||||||||||||||
PGA Championship | T63 | CUT | CUT |
Note: Delsing never played in the Masters Tournament.
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