Matt Kuchar
| Matt Kuchar | |
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| — Golfer — | |
Kuchar in July 2008
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Matthew Gregory Kuchar |
| Nickname | Kuch |
| Born |
June 21, 1978 Winter Park, Florida |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg; 13.9 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Residence | Sea Island, Georgia |
| Spouse | Sybi (neé Parker) (m. 2003) |
| Children | Cameron, Carson |
| Career | |
| College | Georgia Tech |
| Turned professional | 2000 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Professional wins | 13 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 7 |
| PGA Tour of Australasia | 1 |
| Web.com Tour | 1 |
| Other | 4 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | T3: 2012 |
| U.S. Open | T6: 2010 |
| The Open Championship | T9: 2012 |
| PGA Championship | T7: 2015 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| PGA Tour leading money winner |
2010 |
| Vardon Trophy | 2010 |
| Byron Nelson Award | 2010 |
| Medal record | ||
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| Representing United States
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| Olympic Games | ||
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2016 Rio de Janeiro | Golf |
Matthew Gregory Kuchar (born June 21, 1978) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and formerly the Nationwide Tour. He has won seven times on the PGA Tour, with these wins spanning over 12 years. He briefly enjoyed success in the early 2000s before suffering a slump where he struggled to maintain his playing status on the PGA Tour. He rejuvenated himself and built a new, one-plane swing from 2008 onward leading to improved results. He is renowned as one of the most consistent players on the tour, having earned over $30 million in prize money and recorded over 80 top-10 finishes. Kuchar was the PGA Tour's leading money winner in 2010.
Kuchar won The Players Championship in 2012, the flagship event of the PGA Tour, his biggest tournament victory to date. As a result, he moved to a career high number five in the world rankings and has spent over 40 weeks ranked inside its top-10. In February 2013, Kuchar won his first World Golf Championship event, defeating Hunter Mahan in the final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Kuchar won the first Olympic bronze medal awarded for golf since the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Kuchar was born in Winter Park, Florida, to a Ukrainian family. He went on to graduate from Seminole High School in Sanford in 1996. Later he attended Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he was a two-time first-team All-American on the Yellow Jackets' golf team. After narrowly losing in the semi-finals of the 1996 U.S. Amateur championship to Tiger Woods, Kuchar won the title in 1997 (his final amateur event before turning pro). He received the Haskins Award in 1998 as the nation's top collegiate golfer, and was the low amateur at both The Masters and U.S. Open. He turned pro in 2000 after earning his bachelor's degree in management. One of Kuchar's teammates at Georgia Tech was future PGA Tour professional Bryce Molder.
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