UGA Golfers On PGA Tour 2023

Kevin Kisner played college golf tournaments at the University of Georgia and he was a member of their 2005 NCAA Division I Championship team along with Chris Kirk, Richard Scott, and Brendon Todd.

He turned professional after graduating in the year 2006. In 2010, he played the Nationwide Golf Tour full-time and won once at the Mylan Classic. He finished the year 11th position on the money list and earned his 2011 PGA Tour card.

Furthermore, he failed to earn enough money on the PGA Tour in 2011 to retain his card but finished T-11 at qualifying school to earn his card for 2012.

He is a founder of the Kisner Foundation with his wife Brittany to support organizations that serve children’s wellness in one or more of the following areas like health, education, and youth sports. 

Russell Henley played golf for four years at the University of Georgia.

His hardcore dedication and excellent performance at the college tournament earned him the prestigious 2010 Haskins Award, recognizing him as the most outstanding collegiate golfer.

In 2010, he also had the opportunity to compete in the U.S. Open, where he tied for the low amateur spot alongside Scott Langley, showcasing his talent on the big stage.

Henley made history by becoming only the second amateur to win a Nationwide Golf Tour in 2011. He achieved this milestone on the home course at the University of Georgia. 

Russell made his professional debut at the Nationwide Tour’s Soboba Golf Classic in September 2011. A year later, he won the Chiquita Classic defeating Patrick Cantlay and Morgan Hoffmann in a playoff round.

Brian Harman was a 3 times 2nd Team All-American on the University of Georgia golf team in college. He won the NCAA Preview in 2005 and the Isleworth Invitational in 2006.

He also won the yearly award for the highest Grade Point Average three times and won the U.S. Junior Amateur in 2003. Not only that but he won the Players Amateur in 2005, and the Porter Cup in 2007.

Furthermore, Harman played on the winning 2005 and 2009 Walker Cup and 2007 Palmer Cup teams. 

He is a pro golfer from Georgia who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won three tournaments, including a major championship victory at the 2023 Open Championship. Brian also finished as a runner-up at the U.S. Open in 2017. 

Sepp Straka played collegiate golf at the University of Georgia from 2011 to 2016, not playing during the 2013-2014 season.

Straka represented his country Austria on the same team as his biological twin brother Sam at the European Boys’ Team Championship in 2011. Team Austria finished second and lost in the final against Spain with golfer Jon Rahm on the team.

Furthermore, he is a professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, where he has won twice. Sepp was born in Vienna, Austria to an American mother and an Austrian father. His family moved to Georgia when he was around 14 years old.

His twin brother Sam also played on the golf team at the University of Georgia, where Straka graduated in business management. 

Harris English attended the University of Georgia in Athens where he played on the same team as fellow PGA Tour players Russell Henley, Brian Harman, and Patrick Reed.

At the University of Georgia, he studied Consumer Economics and graduated in 2011. That was the same year he turned professional golfer and he remains a huge fanatic of the Georgia Bulldogs football team.

English showed his talent for the game of golf. He attended Baylor School in Tennessee from 2003 to 2007 where he would lead the school golf team to four state titles. He also won one individual state title in high school.

He has had four PGA Golf Tour victories and earned around $26 million from his successful golf career so far. Harris currently resides in Georgia with his wife Helen Marie. 

Bubba Watson was born on 5 November 1978 in Florida to his father Gerry Sr. and his mother Molly Marie Watson.

Bubba developed an early interest in games like golf and very soon became passionate about it. He studied at Milton High School where he was part of the school golf team. 

He also studied at the Faulkner State Community College and played golf for them, and was a member of the junior college All-American.

Later on, he transferred to the University of Georgia which was the defending NCAA champion golf team. He played for the University team and helped them win the Southeastern Conference title in 2000.

He has two major championships with victories at the Masters Golf Tournament in 2012 and 2014. Not only that but he has a total of 12 PGA Tour wins. 

Watson reached a career-high 2nd place in the Official World Golf Ranking in 2015. He plays in the LIV Golf League since 2022.

Chris Kirk is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and won four tournaments on the PGA Tour between 2011 and 2015.

Kirk won again in 2023 after an almost eight-year drought. He finished second in the FedEx Cup Playoffs in 2014 and reached a career-high of 16 in the world rankings in 2015.

Moreover, he played college golf tournaments at the University of Georgia in Athens and was a member of their 2005 NCAA championship team. 

Chris represented the United States in the Eisenhower Trophy in 2006 where he had the joint second-lowest individual score. He was the Ben Hogan Award winner as a senior in the 2007 Walker Cup. 

Brendon Todd attended the University of Georgia where he was part of the team in 2005 that won the National golf championship. He was a four-time All-American as a collegiate golfer.

He played his junior golf tournament at Prestonwood Country Club in North Carolina. He won the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 4A classification individual championship 3 times at Green Hope High School as a freshman, junior, and senior seasons.

In 2008, Todd joined the Nationwide Tour and won the Utah Championship, and finished 19th position on the money list which helped him to earn a spot on the PGA Tour in 2009.

He fired his career-lowest round of 61 during the third round of the Travelers Championship on 27 June 2020. This allowed him to hold the 54-hole lead by two strokes over Dustin Johnson.

Keith Mitchell played college golf from 2011 to 2014 at the University of Georgia, where he majored in Business and Real Estate.

In 2015, he played on the PGA tour Latinoamerica, where his best finish was runner-up at the Brazil Open. Mitchell had four other top-ten finishes and earned around $44,295 in 14 starts on that tour.

Moreover, he played on the Web.com Tour in the 2016 and 2017 seasons. He began his golf tournament with a sponsor’s invite to the Panama Claro Championship in 2016, where he finished in 14th position.

Mitchell finished runner-up at the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship on the PGA Tour in 2019. Not only that but he got his first professional golf tournament victory at The Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Davis Thompson is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA tour.

Thompson won the Rex Hospital Open in 2022 and was number one in the world Amateur Golf ranking in 2020 and 2021.

Not only that but he played collegiately at the University of Georgia for 4 seasons from 2017 to 2021, where he earned All- America First Team laurels his final 2 years and was the 2021 Southeastern conference player of the Year. 

Furthermore, he won 4 individual titles at Georgia, including the NCAA regionals in 2019 and 2021. Davis won the Jones Cup Invitational in 2020 and was runner-up at the event in 2019 and 2020. He was the stroke-play medalist at the Western Amateur in 2019.

He reached number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in November 2020 and March 2021, and finished number two in the inaugural PGA Tour University Class of 2021.