Bryce Molder

Bryce Molder
— Golfer —
Molder putting on the flight deck of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Bryce Wade Molder
Born	(1979-01-27) January 27, 1979 (age 38) Harrison, Arkansas
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 13 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Scottsdale, Arizona
Spouse	Kelley Fike Molder (m. 2006)
Career
College	Georgia Tech
Turned professional	2001
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	2
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	1
Web.com Tour	1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	T30: 2001
The Open Championship	T43: 2009
PGA Championship	T12: 2010

Bryce Wade Molder (born January 27, 1979) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.

Molder was born in Harrison, Arkansas and attended public school in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Conway, Arkansas. He has Poland syndrome, as a result of which he was born with no left pectoral muscle, his left hand is smaller than his right and four fingers on his left hand were webbed at birth. He had two surgeries before the age of five to correct the webbing and other issues with his left hand.

After starring with the Conway High School Golf team, Molder attended Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship and graduated with a degree in management. At Tech, he was a four-time first-team All-American golfer and was named the national Collegiate Golfer of the Year for 2000-2001. Notable teammates at Georgia Tech included Matt Kuchar and Troy Matteson, later fellow PGA Tour professionals. On a break from college in 1999, Molder shot a 60 at his home course, Chenal Country Club in Little Rock, Arkansas, while playing a round with fellow Arkansan, then-President Bill Clinton. He played in the 2001 U.S. Open as an amateur and shot a 68 during the third round, eventually finishing as low amateur in a tie for 30th place overall.

Molder turned professional later that summer, placing third in his first Tour event, the Reno-Tahoe Open, which was won by John Cook. Despite that strong first start at Reno, however, Molder missed earning membership status in the PGA Tour money rankings in the late summer and fall of 2001. After failing to earn status via the Tour Qualifying school, he was able to secure sponsor invitations to Tour events in 2002, earning a T-9 finish at the Compaq Classic of New Orleans, together with top-15 finishes in two other events, securing Special Temporary Membership by finishing T-12 at the Buick Classic. Noting the pressure that attended his play of the 18th hole in the final round at Westchester Country Club's West Course, Molder, who needed to par the hole in order to insure earning the Temporary Card, said, "Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is to two-putt when you have to." For the remainder of the season, though, his good form of the spring did not hold, and he missed securing status on the Tour for the 2003 season by one place in the money rankings.