Kyle Stanley

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Kyle Stanley
Personal information
Full nameKyle Matthew Stanley
Born (1987-11-19) November 19, 1987 (age 36)
Gig Harbor, Washington
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st)
Sporting nationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Residence Gig Harbor, Washington
Career
College Clemson University
Turned professional2009
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
Professional wins2
Highest ranking 26 (August 5, 2018) [1]
(as of August 11, 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour2
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament T21: 2019
PGA Championship CUT: 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019
U.S. Open 53rd: 2009
The Open Championship T39: 2012, 2018
Achievements and awards
Ben Hogan Award 2009

Kyle Matthew Stanley (born November 19, 1987) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

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Amateur career

Stanley was born in Gig Harbor, Washington. He was a 2002 graduate of St. Charles Borromeo elementary and middle school and a 2006 graduate of Bellarmine Preparatory School (both Catholic schools located in Tacoma, Washington).

As a freshman at Clemson University, he established 18 individual scoring records. During his college career he has won the 2006 Aloha Purdue Collegiate and the 2008 Carpet Classic. He was named the ACC player of the year for the 2006-07 season. Stanley was named first-team All-America in 2007 and 2009 by the Golf Coaches Association of America. He was the Individual runner-up at the NCAA Championship in 2007 and 2009. He was a member of the 2007 American Walker Cup team. Stanley studied Sports Management while at Clemson. In 2009 he was given the Ben Hogan Award for best college golfer.

Professional career

Stanley turned professional after the 2009 U.S. Open and made his pro debut a week later at the Travelers Championship. Late in 2010, Stanley earned a 2011 PGA Tour card through Q-School where he finished in a tie for ninth. In his debut season on tour, he recorded four top-10 finishes, with the best of these coming at the John Deere Classic where he finished runner-up to Steve Stricker by a single stroke. The runner-up finish did however help Stanley secure the final available spot at the 2011 Open Championship. [2] It was his first ever appearance in an Open Championship and he made the cut to finish in a tie for 44th. He also made the third FedEx Cup playoff event, the BMW Championship, finishing tied for 10th, though that wasn't good enough to provide entrance to the final event of the year, The Tour Championship. He finished the 2011 season 55th on the PGA Tour money list and 148th on the Official World Golf Ranking.

2012: Torrey Pines collapse and Scottsdale comeback

In January 2012, Stanley looking for his maiden win on the PGA Tour, surrendered a six-shot lead during the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open. He started the day with a six stroke advantage over the rest of the field and at one stage during the final round extended this to seven strokes. As he approached the final hole, Stanley led by three strokes over Brandt Snedeker with just the par-five 18th to play. However, after laying up with his second shot, he spun his approach off the green and into the water hazard. After taking a penalty drop, he found the back edge of the green and three putted to record a triple-bogey eight on the final hole of regulation to result in a sudden-death playoff with Snedeker. After replaying the 18th and both making birdie, Snedeker won the tournament on the second playoff hole with a par after Stanley once again three putted the green. [3]

The following week, Stanley came back from eight shots behind 54 hole leader Spencer Levin at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale for his first PGA Tour win. Stanley shot a final round bogey-free 65 for a one stroke victory over Ben Crane. The eight shot comeback win was also tied for third in the largest final round comeback by a winner in PGA Tour history. [4]

Stanley briefly moved into the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking by virtue of his quarter-finalist finish at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, peaking at 47.

2013–16

Stanley had two third-places in 2013 which allowed him to finish 62nd on the PGA Tour's money list. In 2014 Stanley only had one top-ten and finished 148th on the PGA Tour's money list, and thereby lost his full-time PGA Tour status. In 2015 Stanley split his time on both the PGA Tour and the Web.com Tour. He played well in the year-end Web.com Tour Final series to earn his PGA Tour card again for the 2015–16 season.

Stanley used the last tournament of the 2015–16 regular season, the Wyndham Championship, to move into the top 125 and qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs, however, after a tie for 74th at The Barclays, he was only 116th on the points list, 16 spots short of qualifying for the second round of the playoffs.

2017

Throughout most of the 2016–17 season, Stanley was one of the best players on Tour in strokes gained tee-to-green, but his short-game and putting statistics were outside the top 100. Stanley had several strong performances during the season, including top-10 results in Las Vegas, Houston, Ponte Vedra Beach, and Dublin, Ohio (Columbus).

On July 2, Stanley defeated Charles Howell III on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff at the Quicken Loans National at the TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. After Howell made bogey, Stanley made a 4-foot uphill par putt to secure his first championship in five years. His win in Maryland ensured his qualification for the Open Championship. It was Stanley's first appearance in a major since 2013. The win also qualified him for the PGA Championship and the 2018 Masters Tournament.

Amateur wins

Professional wins (2)

PGA Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1Feb 5, 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open −15 (69-66-69-65=269)1 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Ben Crane
2Jul 2, 2017 Quicken Loans National −7 (70-70-67-66=273)Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Charles Howell III

PGA Tour playoff record (1–2)

No.YearTournamentOpponent(s)Result
1 2012 Farmers Insurance Open Flag of the United States.svg Brandt Snedeker Lost to par on second extra hole
2 2017 Quicken Loans National Flag of the United States.svg Charles Howell III Won with par on first extra hole
3 2018 Memorial Tournament Flag of South Korea.svg An Byeong-hun, Flag of the United States.svg Bryson DeChambeau DeChambeau won with birdie on second extra hole
Stanley eliminated by par on first hole

Results in major championships

Tournament20082009201020112012201320142015201620172018
Masters Tournament CUT52
U.S. Open CUT53CUT73CUT
The Open Championship T44T39CUTCUTT39
PGA Championship CUTCUTCUTCUT
Tournament2019
Masters Tournament T21
PGA Championship CUT
U.S. Open T65
The Open Championship T41
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

TournamentWins2nd3rdTop-5Top-10Top-25EventsCuts made
Masters Tournament 00000132
PGA Championship 00000050
U.S. Open 00000063
The Open Championship 00000064
Totals000001209

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament20122013201420152016201720182019202020212022
The Players Championship CUTT3371T4CUTCUTCCUTCUT
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
C = Canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament20122013201420152016201720182019
Championship T51T25T58
Match Play R32QFT24
Invitational T16T412
Champions T65T5T22
  Top 10
  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

Professional

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References

  1. ↑ "Week 31 2018 Ending 5 Aug 2018" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Stanley secures Open debut". Sky Sports. July 11, 2011. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Disaster: Stanley loses playoff after triple-bogey on 18". USA Today . January 29, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Kyle Stanley wins Waste Management Phoenix Open". USA Today . February 5, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
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