Jeff Sluman
| Jeff Sluman | |
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| — Golfer — | |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Jeffrey George Sluman |
| Born |
September 11, 1957 Rochester, New York |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Weight | 140 lb (64 kg; 10 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Residence | Hinsdale, Illinois |
| Career | |
| College |
Monroe Community College Florida State University |
| Turned professional | 1980 |
| Current tour(s) |
PGA Tour Champions Tour |
| Professional wins | 18 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 6 |
| PGA Tour Champions | 6 |
| Other | 6 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 1) |
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| Masters Tournament | T4: 1992 |
| U.S. Open | 2nd: 1992 |
| The Open Championship | T25: 1990 |
| PGA Championship | Won: 1988 |
Jeffrey George Sluman (born September 11, 1957) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments including six PGA Tour victories.
Sluman was born and reared in Rochester, New York. After graduating from Greece Arcadia High School in 1975 and Monroe Community College in 1977, he attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He earned a bachelor's degree with a major in finance from FSU in 1980, and turned pro later that year.
Sluman has had an unusual career in terms of winning golf tournaments. During what are usually considered a golfers most productive years – their early twenties through their middle thirties – Sluman won only once. At the age of 30, he won the 1988 PGA Championship. Then, shortly before his 40th birthday, he started winning consistently on the Tour and in non-Tour events. After winning the 1997 Tucson Chrysler Classic, he won seven more events including four on the PGA Tour during the next seven seasons. Sluman's best season was in 2002 when he finished the year ranked 15th on the PGA Tour with $1,250,187 in earnings. Despite his rather unusual sequence in respect to tournament wins, Sluman has been one of the Tour's most consistent top 10 finishers throughout his career; his regular career earnings exceeded 18 million dollars.
The 1988 PGA Championship was played at the Oak Tree Golf Club in Edmond, Oklahoma. Sluman won the tournament by three strokes over Paul Azinger, shooting a total of 272. On the final day, Sluman took command of the tournament with a round of 65 that tied David Graham's 1979 mark as the lowest winning round in PGA history.
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