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LEE PORTER
UNITED STATES
PGA TOUR - Media Guide
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Made the cut in 10 of 25 events on the 2003 Nationwide Tour. Finished the season No. 89 on the money list with $46,370. Posted five top-25 finishes this year, including three in the first four events of the season. His T12 at the Chitimacha Louisiana Open was his best result of the year, and was sandwiched between T15s at the Clearwater Classic and the First Tee Arkansas Classic. |
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| Best PGA TOUR Finishes | |
| 3-- Greater Vancouver Open. | |
| Best Nationwide Tour Finishes | |
| T2-- NIKE Miami Valley Open, BUY.COM South Carolina Classic, BUY.COM Inland Empire Open. | |
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T23 at Qualifying School to keep TOUR card for 2002. Returned to the PGA TOUR after spending the 2000 season on the BUY.COM TOUR. Made the cut in 16 of 30 PGA TOUR events and had one top-10 and three top-25s. Earned a career-best $346,462. The top-10 came at Genuity Championship with rounds 69-69-69-71. Paycheck of $126,000 was largest of career. Second-round 63 at Southern Farm Bureau Classic was personal low round in 2001. Played in 25 BUY.COM TOUR events in 2000, making the cut in 19 tournaments. Jumped from 64th to 53rd on the money list with his T2 finish at the regular season-ending BUY.COM Inland Empire Open to qualify for the BUY.COM TOUR Championship. Needed to make a three-foot par putt on the 72nd hole in Moreno Valley or Guy Hill would have made it into the top 55 instead. Member of the BUY.COM TOUR in 1992, 1995-1996 and 2000. Had a disappointing 1999 PGA TOUR season, finishing 194th on the final money list. Parlayed third-place finish at 1997 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament into solid '98 season that was, by far, the best of his career. Entered 30 TOUR events and made 17 cuts. Earnings of $325,415 brought 95th-place finish on money list. Closing 66 helped produce Greater Vancouver Open third-place finish, his best on TOUR. Entered 32 PGA TOUR events in 1997, finishing in the money in seven with one top-10 finish, a T7 at United Airlines Hawaiian Open. Earned PGA TOUR membership that season by virtue of an eighth-place finish on 1996 BUY.COM TOUR money list with $108,030. T3 at 1996 BUY.COM TOUR Championship vaulted him from 15th to eighth place on the final money list and onto the PGA TOUR. A world traveler of sorts who played on the Asian Tour from 1990-92 and again from 1994-96. Finished fourth on 1994 Asian Tour Order of Merit. Member of Canadian Tour in 1990-91 and South American Tour in 1991. Member of PGA European Tour in 1993 and 1996. Also played on the Japanese Tour. Winner of 1991 Venezuelan Open. Won 1989 North and South Amateur and Cardinal Amateur. Started playing golf at age 13 because he needed something to do while his mother was playing tennis. Web site is www.leeporter.com. |
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