| Will Claxton | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Marvin Willis Claxton III |
| Born | September 14, 1981 Swainsboro, Georgia |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st) |
| Nationality |  |
| Residence | Auburn, Alabama |
| Spouse | Bonnie Carla Burbic Claxton (m. 2009) |
| Career | |
| College | Auburn University |
| Turned professional | 2005 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour (2012–present) |
| Former tour(s) | Nationwide Tour (2010–11) eGolf Professional Tour (2009) Hooters Tour (2005–08) |
Marvin Willis "Will" Claxton III (born September 14, 1981) is an American professional golfer.
In the sport of golf, the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose their amateur status. A golfer who has lost their amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated; a professional may not play in amateur tournaments unless the Committee is notified, acknowledges and confirms the participation. It is very difficult for a professional to regain their amateur status; simply agreeing not to take payment for a particular tournament is not enough. A player must apply to the governing body of the sport to have amateur status reinstated.
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Claxton was born and raised in Swainsboro, Georgia where he helped the Swainsboro High School golf team win four consecutive regional championships during his time there. In his senior year of high school, he was named to the 1999 Polo Golf Junior All-America team. He went on to attend Auburn University and was a member of the Tigers' 2002 SEC Championship team. During his freshman year, he finished 4th in the SEC Tournament, and 3rd in 2003. Academically, he majored in Economics and graduated in 2005.
Swainsboro is a city in Emanuel County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 7,277. The city is the county seat of Emanuel County.
Auburn University is a public research and land-grant university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 23,000 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of more than 30,000 with 1,260 faculty members, Auburn is the second largest university in Alabama. It is one of the state's two public flagship universities. The university is classified as an RI: Doctoral Research—Very High Research Activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
Claxton turned professional in 2005. He joined the Hooters Tour in 2005, and was a member until 2008. He was a member of the eGolf Professional Tour in 2009. He was a member of the Nationwide Tour from 2010 to 2011. In 2011, Claxton earned an invitation to the 2011 Transitions Championship, his first career PGA Tour start, where he made the cut and finished T-67 for the event. [1]
The eGolf Professional Tour, formerly the Tarheel Tour, was a third-level men's professional golf tour based in Charlotte, North Carolina with about twenty tournaments conducted annually in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia.
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main professional golf tours played primarily by men in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, as well as PGA Tour Champions and the Korn Ferry Tour, as well as PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamérica, and PGA Tour China. The PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville.
In 2011, in his second attempt to earn a PGA Tour card through the Qualifying School, Claxton was in first place after the first four rounds of competition. He remained in the top-25 at the end of the week to earn his first PGA Tour card. [2]
In 2012, his first year on the PGA Tour, Claxton played in 28 tour events, making the cut in 21, and had two top-10 finishes. He advanced to the FedEx Cup playoffs but missed the cut at The Barclays and failed to advance to the Deutsche Bank Championship. With a finish of 120 on the final 2012 PGA Tour money list, Claxton claimed a tour card for 2013.
The FedEx Cup is a championship trophy for the PGA Tour. Its introduction marked the first time that men's professional golf had a playoff system. Announced in November 2005, it was first awarded in 2007. Rory McIlroy is the 2019 champion. This competition is sponsored by FedEx.
In 2013, he made only 9 cuts in 24 events. He played in the Web.com Tour Finals and finished 22nd to retain his PGA Tour card for 2014.
In 2013–14, he only played 8 events, making 4 cuts, until he had to retire for the season due to surgery with his last event being the 2014 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am He has a twelve-event medical extension available upon his return. He returned in June 2018 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic.
His highest finish to date is a T-5 at the 2012 True South Classic. [3]
Claxton currently resides in Auburn, Alabama.
