Brian Gay | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Joseph Brian Gay |
Born |
Fort Worth, Texas |
December 14, 1971
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st) |
Nationality | United States |
Residence | Florida |
Spouse | Kimberly |
Children | Makinley, Brantley |
Career | |
College | University of Florida |
Turned professional | 1994 |
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Professional wins | 13 |
Number of wins by tour | |
PGA Tour | 4 |
Other | 9 |
Best results in major championships |
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Masters Tournament | T38: 2013 |
U.S. Open | T63: 2011 |
The Open Championship | CUT: 2001, 2009, 2010, 2016 |
PGA Championship | T20: 2008 |
Joseph Brian Gay (born December 14, 1971) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.
A military brat, Gay was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but was raised primarily at Fort Rucker, Alabama, where his father was a U.S. Army noncomissioned officer involved in flight operations. His father was also a member of the All-Army golf team in his spare time. As an only child, Gay spent much of his youth at the Fort Rucker golf course, first at the practice area, then on the course. Encouraged by a group of military retirees he often played with, he dominated the local tournament scene as a tween.
Gay's success as a teenager led to his receiving an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida, where he played for coach Buddy Alexander's Florida Gators men's golf team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1991 to 1994. During his time as a Gator golfer, the team won four consecutive Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships (1991–1994), and the 1993 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships. As a collegian, he was the SEC Freshman of the Year (1991), a five-time individual medalist, two-time SEC individual champion (1992, 1994), three-time first-team All-SEC selection (1992–1994), and two-time All-American (1992, 1993). Gay was later into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2010.