Matt Kuchar
Matt Kuchar was born in Winter Park, Florida, United States on June 21st, 1978 and is the Golfer. At the age of 46, Matt Kuchar biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 46 years old, Matt Kuchar has this physical status:
Matthew Gregory Kuchar (born June 21, 1978) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and formerly the Nationwide Tour.
On the PGA Tour, he has won nine times. Kuchar enjoyed brief success in the early 2000s before suffering with a slump in which he struggled to keep his playing status on the PGA Tour.
He revived himself and created a new, one-plane swing from 2008 to 2015, which resulted in improved results.
In 2010, Kuchar became the PGA Tour's top money winner. Kuchar won The Players Championship in 2012, the PGA Tour's most prestigious tournament victory to date.
As a result, he shot to a career high rank in the world rankings and has spent more than 40 weeks in a row outside the top ten.
Kuchar won his first World Golf Championship event in Rio de Janeiro in February 2013, defeating Hunter Mahan in the final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. Kuchar completed the 2018-19 season as the highest-earning PGA Tour player without winning a major championship and with annual earnings of over $50 million.
In the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club, the closest he has come was his second place finish.
Early years
Kuchar was born in Winter Park, Florida, to Peter, a life insurance salesman and college tennis pro, and Meg Kuchar, with one sibling, Rebecca. In 1996, he graduated from Seminole High School in Sanford. He later attended Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he was a two-time first-team All-American on the Yellow Jackets' golf team. Since barely missing in the 1996 U.S. semi-finals, the 1996 US swept to a close. Kuchar won the Amateur Championship in 1997, beating Tiger Woods, who won the title in 1997. He received the Haskins Award in 1998 as the country's best collegiate golfer, and he was the lowest amateur at both The Masters and the U.S Open. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in management, he became a pro in 2000. Bryce Molder, a future PGA Tour professional at Georgia Tech, was one of Kuchar's teammates.
Personal life
Kuchar married Sybi Parker, a tennis player at Georgia Tech, and the two families live on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Cameron Cole and Carson Wright are their two sons. Kuchar is a Christian.
Professional career
Kuchar converted professional in November 2000 after working for a brief period with a financial services company. He skipped the sign-up deadline for the 2000 qualifying school. He was given authorisation to some PGA Tour tournaments in 2001 and so far enough funds to be fully exempt for the 2002 season.
Kuchar's first victory on the PGA Tour came at the Honda Classic in 2002. He came in a tough year in 2005, putting him 159th on the money list, which resulted in a loss of his tour card. He failed to recover it at qualifying school and competed on the Nationwide Tour in 2006. Kuchar won the Henrico County Open and ranked tenth on the Nationwide Tour money list to reclaim his PGA Tour card for 2007. He saved his card for the next two years by placing 115th on the money list in 2007 and 2008, and he claimed seventh on the list in 2008.
Kuchar won for the second time at the Turning Stone Resort Championship in 2009, seven years after his first PGA Tour victory. He won a battle over Vaughn Taylor, but it came to a halt on Sunday evening due to the darkness.
Kuchar joined the Ryder Cup team in 2010, gaining his eighth and last merit spot on the 12-man US squad on August 15. Kuchar led the PGA Tour in top-ten finishes for the year, but had not won a tournament in 2010. Kuchar defeated Martin Laird on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff at the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey, two weeks later.
Kuchar received the Vardon Trophy and Byron Nelson Award in 2010 for the lowest scoring average, as well as the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Award for leading the money list.
Kuchar started off 2011 with three top-ten finishes in the first three weeks of the season. On Maui, he finished T6 in the first PGA Tour event, the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. At the Sony Open in Hawaii this week, he competed for a T5 finish and then the Bob Hope Classic earned a T7 finish.
Kuchar qualified to the semifinals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in February, where he was defeated 6&5 by eventual champion Luke Donald. He defeated fellow American Bubba Watson 2&1. During the week, Kuchar had defeated Anders Hansen on the 22nd hole in round one, Bo Van Pelt in round two, Rickie Fowler in round two, and Yang Yong-eun in round four.
Kuchar came in second place at the Memorial Tournament in Muirfield Village in June 2011 behind Steve Stricker. This was his eighth top-ten finish of the season and he climbed to his highest position, the world number six. At The Barclays, Kuchar came in second, two strokes behind the winner, Dustin Johnson. Due to Hurricane Irene, the tournament was reduced to 54 holes. Because of his finish, he has risen to second place in the FedEx Cup standings. In November, Kuchar and Gary Woodland teamed up to win the Omega Mission Hills World Cup.
Kuchar finished in a tie for third in a major championship at The Masters, his best result in a major championship. On Sunday, Kuchar was tied for the lead on the back nine, but Bubba Watson and Louis Oosthuizen finished second in the playoffs, but bogeyed the par three 16th and finished two strokes out of the playoffs.
In May, Kuchar won the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, his highest tournament of his career. He won by two strokes over runners-up Rickie Fowler, Martin Laird, Ben Curtis, and Zach Johnson in a final round of 70 (2). In the last round, he was one stroke behind Kevin Nader in the final round. After bogeying the first hole, he shot a near-perfect round, save for a three-putt bogey on the 17th to keep the opponents off the field. Kuchar placed the victory at number five in the world rankings for the first time in history.
In February, he won the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, defeating Hunter Mahan 2&1 in the final. Kuchar had an early lead and was 4 up at the turn and was 4 up at the turn. Mahan made a comeback on the back nine, winning four of the next seven holes to trail by just one with two more to play. Mahan's wild ride on the par-4 17th put him in danger, and after Kuchar screamed his approach close, Mahan was unable to chip in for par and forfeited the hole, giving Kuchar his first World Golf Championship title to Kuchar. Kuchar was never more than one down in any of his matches this week, and he only trailed three times on his way to victory. On the way to the final, he defeated Hiroyuki Fujita, Sergio Garca, Nicolas Colsaerts, Robert Garrigus, and Jason Day. Since winning, Kuchar climbed into the top ten world rankings. In early June, he secured his second victory in 2013 at the Memorial Tournament.
Kuchar appeared in two events in Australia this year, being late in the year. In the 2013 World Cup of Golf, he finished runner-up to Adam Scott at the Australian Masters and came in fourth place.
Kuchar had a piece of the lead in the final round of the Valero Texas Open in March with nine holes to play, but finished T-4 on the 10th and 11th holes. He had a four-stroke lead going into the final round at the Shell Houston Open last week, but on the first extra hole, he lost a playoff to Matt Jones' 42-yard chip-in. Kuchar was back in contention the following week at the Masters Tournament, where he was tied for the lead on Sunday before four-putting the fourth hole and ending T-5.
Kuchar won by one stroke at the RBC Heritage a week later for the seventh time on the PGA Tour. He shot a final-round 64, which featured a chip-in birdie from a greenside bunker on the 18th hole, allowing him to come from four shots behind and claim victory.
Kuchar led after two rounds at the Sony Open in Hawaii in January with a 65-63 record. He stalled on the weekend, finishing tied for third after a stalemate on the weekend. Kuchar's attempt in the final round was unsuccessful, snapping his streak of 255 rounds on the PGA Tour with at least one birdie. Kuchar finished second, one stroke behind the winner, at the Humana Challenge this week.
Kuchar competed at the RBC Heritage in April and finished fifth, finishing in fifth place. In August at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, he reached his best result in the season's majors, finishing tied for seventh.
Kuchar appeared in only two official events outside of the PGA Tour in 2015, but did a good job in both. He came a stroke back to fellow American Rickie Fowler at the Scottish Open, and he won the Fiji International, a special event on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
Kuchar's seven top-tens for the season, but they did not win a PGA Tour tournament for the first time in four years. After finishing in the top ten in earnings in four of the previous five years, he did a good job down the money list.
Kuchar had nine top tens in the 2016 Summer Olympics, and after a bronze medal in the final round, 63.
Kuchar took part in 26 events on the PGA Tour in 2017, including nine top-10 finishes. He came in fourth at the Masters, his fourth top-ten finish in the event. Kuchar shared the first-round lead with Brooks Koepka and Jordan Spieth and ended in first and third at the Open Championship, behind Spieth in solo second. Kuchar held a one-stroke lead after Spieth's near meltdown on the 13th hole of the final round. Despite this, Spieth claimed the championship by three strokes over Kuchar, who finished three strokes ahead of third-place finisher Li Haotong. Kuchar finished 14th in the FedEx Cup rankings and represented the United States in the President's Cup, putting up a 2–1 record in the United States' victory.
Kuchar had another winless campaign in the 2017-18 PGA Tour season. He has appeared in 24 competitions. He had four top-ten finishes and made 20 cuts. He earned $1,720,097 for the year and finished 76th in the season-long FedEx Cup.
In the 2018 Ryder Cup, United States Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk named Kuchar as a non-playing vicecaptain for the US team. At Le Golf National outside of Paris, France, the United States team fell 17 1/2 to 10 1/2 to the European team.
Kuchar won the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Cancun, Mexico, on November 11, 2018. This was the 2018-19 PGA Tour season's grand finale. Kuchar earned a million-dollar check from his caddie, David Giral Ortiz, the amount they pledged for a top-ten finish ($4,000) and an additional $1,000 on top of that to equal $5,000, sparking a social media controversy. This figure is below the average payout (10 percent) for a full-time caddie, whose player wins. Ortiz was recruited and agreed to the terms set because Kuchar's regular caddie was not available. Ortiz has said to Golf.com that he never expected the full 10 percent return and that "Matt is a wonderful person and a natural performer." He treated me well. I'm only worried about how it's all ended." Kuchar defended his decision by saying, "For a guy who makes 200 dollars a day, a 5000 dollar week is a big week." Kuchar apologized and promised to pay Ortiz the requested $50,000, as well as a small amount to local Cancun charities.
Rory McIlroy jokingly chastised Matt Kuchar over the caddie compensation scandal at the end of the 2018-19 PGA Tour regular season. After Kuchar joked about McIlroy's slim 2-point margin for an additional $300,000, McIlroy said, "And we all know what money means to him" at the inaugural award ceremony of the Wyndham Rewards Top 10 in the final regular season FedEx Cup standings, the top ten players were awarded a $10 million bonus pool.
Kuchar won the Sony Open in Hawaii on January 13, 2019, his second win in three starts.
Kuchar reached the championship round of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play for the second time in his career, having previously attempted to win the title in 2013. In the final, he defeated Kevin Kisner, 3 & 2;
Kuchar played for the United States team at the 2019 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia in December 2019. The United States' team defeated the Soviet Union 16–14. Kuchar fell 0–1–3, but the team recovered from 3 down against Louis Oosthuizen to halve the match in Sunday singles. Kuchar made the Cup-clinching putt on 17.
Kuchar won the Singapore Open on the Japan Golf Tour on January 19, 2020. The Asian Tour co-sanctioned the tournament.