Brandt Snedeker

He finished in a tie for 23rd at the U.S. Open the following week.

This win propelled him to a world ranking of 55th.

The Wyndham Championship was the last regular season event before the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

Snedeker entered the playoffs in 9th place in the point standings.

He played in all four playoff events, recording finishes of missed cut, T47, T14 and T29.

Snedeker finished in 20th place in the final points standings, which earned him a bonus check of $225,000.

Brandt Newell Snedeker (born December 8, 1980) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

He won the U.S. Amateur Public Links in 2003 before turning professional in 2004.

Snedeker played on the Nationwide Tour from 2004 until 2006, when he finished 9th on the tour money list after victories at the Showdown at Somerby and the Permian Basin Charity Golf Classic, thus earning a PGA Tour spot for 2007.

While on the Nationwide Tour, Snedeker earned two wins, two runners-up, 12 tops 10s and earned $549,564.

Snedeker garnered immediate attention in January 2007 after shooting a course record equaling 61 in the first round of the Buick Invitational.

He led the tournament by three strokes after 36 holes but due to a 74 in the third round he finished in third place.

He made eight consecutive cuts starting at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in January and ending at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March.

In that span he recorded three top-25 finishes.

In four tournaments in April, he made two cuts including a finish of T16 at the Verizon Heritage.

From May to early June, Snedeker made the cut in two of the four tournaments he entered, including a T12 finish at the prestigious Players Championship.

Snedeker then went on a hot streak starting at the Stanford St. Jude Championship on June 10.

He finished in a tie for fifth at that tournament and by doing so surpassed $1 million in earnings on tour in 2007.

Due to his fine debut performance on tour, Snedeker was named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year for 2007.

He entered 29 PGA Tour events in 2007, making 23 cuts.

He had one win, a third-place finish, six top-10 finishes and 13 top-25 finishes.

He earned $2,836,643 which put him in 17th on the final money list and he finished 2007 ranked 47th in the world rankings.

Snedeker began the 2008 season with a tied for 10th finish at the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

He finished tied for 9th at the FBR Open in February and tied for 8th at the PODS Championship in March.

Snedeker recorded his first top-10 in a major at the 2008 Masters, where he finished tied for third.

He went into the final round in second place, two strokes behind eventual winner Trevor Immelman but Snedeker shot a final round 77.

Following his third-place finish at the 2008 Masters Tournament, Snedeker reached a new high of 32nd in the world rankings.

Snedeker finished in the top-10 for the second time in a major at the 2008 U.S. Open where he finished tied for 9th.

In early July he recorded two top-10 finishes, including a tie for 10th at the Buick Open.

This finish put Snedeker into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time.

Later in July, Snedeker finished in a tie for 7th at the Canadian Open.

He won the 2012 FedEx Cup with a victory in the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.

Following this victory, he moved into the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career.

In February 2013, after winning the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, he moved to a career high of number four in the world.

On August 16, 2018, he shot the tenth sub-60 round in the history of the PGA Tour, firing an opening round 59 at the Wyndham Championship.

Snedeker was born in Nashville, Tennessee to parents Larry and Candice Snedeker.

He was introduced to golf by his maternal grandmother, who managed a golf course in West Plains, Missouri.

He attended Harding Academy, Montgomery Bell Academy and then Vanderbilt University, where he was initiated into Kappa Alpha Order by the Chi Chapter.

A fortnight later he played in the PGA Championship for the first time and finished in a tie for 18th place.

Snedeker picked up his first PGA Tour victory the next week at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.