Billy Hurley III
| Billy Hurley III | |
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Hurley aboard the USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93)
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Willard Jeremiah Hurley III |
| Born |
June 9, 1982 Leesburg, Virginia |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Residence | Annapolis, Maryland |
| Spouse | Heather Hurley |
| Children | Madison, Will, Jacob |
| Career | |
| College | United States Naval Academy |
| Turned professional | 2006 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Former tour(s) | Web.com Tour |
| Professional wins | 3 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 1 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | CUT: 2017 |
| U.S. Open | T48: 2014 |
| The Open Championship | T64: 2014 |
| PGA Championship | T22: 2016 |
Willard Jeremiah "Billy" Hurley III (born June 9, 1982) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.
Hurley grew up in Leesburg, Virginia, the oldest of four children of Billy and Cheryl Hurley. He attended Loudoun County High School. During his senior year in 2000, he was one of 17 golfers named honorable mention All-Met (Washington, D.C. metro area) He was named all-state in Virginia.
Hurley is a 2004 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Quantitative Economics. He also was named Academic All-American.
He was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy in 2004, rising to the rank of Lieutenant and serving until July 2009. After his graduation from the academy, he was assigned to the USS Gettysburg, a guided-missile cruiser based in Mayport, Florida, where he was a combat electronic division officer. He then taught economics for two years at the Naval Academy. From 2007 to 2009, he served a tour of duty in the Persian Gulf aboard the destroyer USS Chung-Hoon.
As an amateur, Hurley was a member of the victorious American team in the 2005 Walker Cup, held at the Chicago Golf Club. The Walker Cup is a competition held biennially that matches the top American amateurs against the best of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also captain of the 2004 Palmer Cup team, an annual competition named for Arnold Palmer that matches American collegiate golfers against European college/university players.
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