Jay Haas - Media Guide

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all players on the Champions Tour with 18 top-10 finishes and placed second to Loren Roberts in the Charles Schwab Cup race...First of his four wins came in March when he was a two-stroke victor over R.W. Eaks at the Toshiba Classic, setting a new tournament scoring record...Became the first player to successfully defend a Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf title at stroke play the following month when he defeated Tom Kite on the first hole of a playoff for his eighth career Champions Tour win...Added a third victory to his resume when he went wire to wire at the Principal Charity Classic in Iowa in June. Fired three successive rounds in the 60s on his way to his ninth career win...Continued his stellar play in his next start at the Bank of America Championship near Boston. Opened with a 1-under 71, but followed with rounds of 66 on the weekend for a three-stroke come-from-behind victory at the event...Was the Tour leader in the All-Around category and was also second in Birdie Average (4.33) and Scoring Average (69.36). He led the Tour with 377 birdies...Player of the Month in both April and June.

wins came in March when he was a two-stroke victor over R.W. Eaks at the Toshiba Classic. Finished with a record-setting, 54-hole total of 19-under 194, breaking Hale Irwin's record of 196 set in 2002. Shot rounds of 65-64-65 on his way to the win...Became the first player to successfully defend a Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf title at stroke play the following month when he defeated Tom Kite on the first hole of a playoff for his eighth career Champions Tour win. Got up and down from the greenside bunker on the 54th hole to force overtime with Kite. Eventually won in Savannah when he chipped to within two feet and holed a short par putt after Kite missed his par attempt from 5 1/2 feet moments earlier. Win was his second in four starts and made him the first multiple winner on the Champions Tour...Added a third victory to his resume when he went wire to wire at the Principal Charity Classic in Iowa in June. Fired three successive rounds in the 60s on his way to his ninth career win...Continued his stellar play in his next start at the Bank of America Championship near Boston. Opened with a 1-under 71, but followed with rounds of 66 on the weekend for a three-stroke come-from-behind victory at the event. Earned $247,500 which pushed him past the $20 million mark in career earnings. With the victory, he also joined his uncle, Bob Goalby, as the tournament champion. Goalby won the inaugural event in 1981...Teamed with Gary Player to win $290,000 and finish second to Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus ($320,000) at the Wendy's Champions Skins Game...Made nice showing on the early Florida swing. Tied for the 36-hole lead at the Allianz Championship in Boca Raton but eventually finished two strokes back of Mark James on The Old Course at Broken Sound. Runner-up effort at the Allianz event equaled his best effort on TOUR in Florida (T2-2003 PLAYERS Championship)...Along with Andy Bean, was T2 the following week at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, one stroke back of Tom Watson. Moved into contention down the stretch when he posted a 2-under 69 Sunday in adverse weather conditions, one of only two sub-70 scores posted the final day at the TPC Tampa Bay...Final-round 63 at the 3M Championship equaled the TPC Twin Cities course record and vaulted him into second place at the 3M Championship, one stroke short of D.A. Weibring who birdied the final three holes to win...Made a late run at Eaks in the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn before finishing T2, two strokes back after a 6-under 66, the low Sunday round...Was T4 at the Senior British Open at Muirfield...As the defending champion, finished T4 at the Administaff Small Business Classic. Managed to post a 5-under 67 on the last day despite making a quadruple bogey-7 at the third hole...Also finished T5 at the U.S. Senior Open and T9 in defense of his Senior PGA Championship title at The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, SC...Was the Tour leader in the All-Around category and was also second in Birdie Average (4.33) and Scoring Average (69.36). He led the Tour with 377 birdies...Player of the Month in both April and June.

to his T6 finish. Earned a Champions Tour career-best $2,420,227 to win the money title by $54,832, but his margin in the Charles Schwab Cup race was only 20 points as Roberts missed a short putt for on No. 18 which would have given Roberts the title. His win in the Charles Schwab Cup race earned him a $1-million annuity...Won four titles during the season, sharing that distinction with Roberts...Claimed one of the biggest wins of his career in late May when he prevailed in a playoff to win the Senior PGA Championship at Oak Tree GC in Edmond, OK. The victory was his first major championship in 90 starts in his PGA TOUR career and gave him three consecutive victories on the Champions Tour. Made a clutch birdie putt on the 72nd hole which appeared to be the clincher, but Brad Bryant answered with a birdie putt on the same hole minutes later to set up a playoff. Rolled in a par putt on the third extra hole to defeat Bryant and become the second player (Loren Roberts the other) to win three straight events in 2006...The first of those victories came in April when he went wire-to-wire at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf. Held off late challenges by Craig Stadler and Peter Jacobsen on Sunday for a five-stroke victory in Savannah. Made key birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 on his way to a closing-round, 5-under-par 67. Stellar play on the back nine during the event was the difference. Was 13-under-par on the final nine at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort, with just one bogey. His winning score of 15-under-par 201 was a new tournament record...Made it two straight wins the following week when he came from three strokes behind on Sunday to win the FedEx Kinko's Classic at The Hills CC near Austin. Matched the tournament scoring record with a final-round, 7-under-par 65, highlighted by five straight birdies on Nos. 2-6 and a 5-under-par 31 on the front nine. Added birdies on three of the final four holes to pull away from his challengers. Needed just 21 putts Sunday as he was victorious for the fifth time in his professional career in Texas. Two victories were enough to earn him April Player of the Month honors...Added a fourth title late in the year at the Administaff Small Business Classic. Five-stroke victory at the rain-shortened event was his sixth TOUR title in Texas and made him just the second player (Bob Charles, the other) to claim both a PGA TOUR and Champions Tour title in the Houston area. Separated himself from the field Saturday, thanks to an Augusta Pines course-record 63. Maintained his five-stroke advantage through five holes Sunday before heavy rains in the early afternoon rendered the course unplayable...Held the lead briefly on the back nine at the Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach before eventually finishing T2 along with David Edwards, one stroke back of winner Scott Simpson...Also T2 in his next outing at the Constellation Energy Classic, finishing with birdies on the final two holes Sunday...Fifth-place finish at the weather-shortened SAS Championship near Raleigh moved him over the $2 million in season earnings...Opened his 2006 season on the PGA TOUR and finished T59 at the Sony Open in Hawaii...Missed the cut at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am...Made his record 30th start at the Verizon Heritage, three more than Lanny Wadkins at Harbour Town but missed the cut...Tied for the low score of the third round at the Wachovia Championship, with a 7-under 65. Eventually finished T22 at Charlotte, NC, event, where he played with sons, Bill and Jay, who were also in the field...Moved ahead of Tom Kite on the PGA TOUR's all-time record for most cuts made (591) when he played on the weekend at the U.S. Open. Made the cut in a third decade at Winged Foot, eventually finishing T37...Had tied Kite's all-time mark for career cuts when he played all four rounds at the Memorial Tournament, eventually finishing T29 in Ohio...Made it 592 career cuts made by making it to the weekend at the PGA Championship at Medinah...Averaged more birdies-per-round than any Champions Tour player (4.51) and also led the All-Around statistical category...Was second to Roberts in Scoring Average (69.02 to 69.07) and was second to Roberts in top-10 finishes (18 to 16). Had the lowest Final-Round Scoring Average (68.95).2005: Was voted as the Champions Tour Rookie of the Year after turning in an outstanding month of October. Starting with the last round of the JELD-WEN Tradition, posted 17 straight sub-par scores, the best streak on the Champions Tour last year...Made headlines when he won for the first time in 304 combined starts (PGA TOUR/Champions Tour/Nationwide Tour), capturing the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn in western North Carolina. Posted three straight rounds in the 60s, including a closing, 7-under-par 65 for his initial Champions Tour triumph. Completed his day with three straight birdies to pull away from Loren Roberts and Dana Quigley for the two-stroke victory, his first in 11 years, 11 months, 23 days...Claimed a second title just two weeks later at the SBC Championship in San Antonio. Two-stroke victory at Oak Hills made him the 12th different player to claim PGA TOUR/Champions Tour titles at the same venue. Came from two strokes back of Dana Quigley with a final-round 66 to best Tom Purtzer by two...Almost claimed a third consecutive crown at the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Looked to be in control after taking a six-stroke lead after 54 holes but was eventually passed by a hard-charging Tom Watson and fell one stroke short in Sonoma...A T5 finish at the Administaff Small Business Classic in mid-October vaulted him into the top 30 on the 2005 earnings list...Made 16 starts on the PGA TOUR and made 12 cuts...Played in his 28th PLAYERS Championship, tying Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite for most appearances and finished T24...Also played in his 29th consecutive MCI Heritage, including making his 23rd cut at Hilton Head-just one shy of Hale Irwin, who has made the most cuts at Harbour Town, with 24. When he made cut at Harbour Town it was the 584th of his PGA TOUR career which pushed him past Raymond Floyd for second on the all-time career cuts-made list at the time...Lone top-10 on the PGA TOUR came in his fifth start, a T9 at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, where he defeated World No 1 Vijay Singh in the second round. Defeated Jonathan Kaye and Singh before falling to Chris DiMarco in the third round. 2004: Made his Champions Tour debut at the Senior PGA Championship in Louisville, where he finished second, one stroke back of Hale Irwin after Irwin two-putted for birdie from 40 feet on the final hole...Among the leaders throughout the U.S. Senior Open before finishing T3, two strokes behind Peter Jacobsen. He and Jacobsen were the only two players in the field to post four consecutive sub-par scores at Bellerive...Was runner-up to Craig Stadler in his third and final start on the Champions Tour when he finished three strokes back at The First Tee Open at Pebble Beach...Sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to give him and son Bill a victory in the two-day CVS Charity Classic at Rhode Island CC in late June...Appeared in 23 events on the PGA TOUR and finished 27th on the final money list, with $2,071,626, the second year in succession he earned over $2 million...Made the cut at the Wachovia Championship, the 566th time he made a cut in a PGA TOUR event, tying him with Gene Littler for third all-time...Was a captain's pick on the 2004 U.S. Ryder Cup team at Oakland Hills...Son Bill qualified for the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills GC to join Jay as the first father-son duo to compete in the same U.S. Open twice.

golf at Augusta State and is a now a professional. Second son, Bill, was an All-American at Wake Forest and was the medalist and a semifinalist at the 2002 U.S. Amateur at Oakland Hills CC. Bill also won the 2004 Ben Hogan Award as the top collegiate male golfer and is a member of the PGA TOUR...Jay received the 2004 Payne Stewart Award for upholding the traditions of golf and was honored in 2005 with the Jim Murray Award from the Golf Writers Association of America and late in the 2005 season was named as the recipient of the Bob Jones Award, the United States Golf Association's highest honor for distinguished sportsmanship.

Carolina. Completed his day with three straight birdies to pull away from Loren Roberts and Dana Quigley for the two-stroke victory, his first in 11 years, 11 months, 23 days. Claimed a second title just two weeks later at the 2005 SBC Championship in San Antonio. Two-stroke victory at Oak Hills made him the 12th different player to claim PGA TOUR/Champions Tour titles at the same venue. Made 16 starts on the PGA TOUR in 2006 and made 12 cuts. Also played in his 29th consecutive MCI Heritage, including making his 23rd cut at Hilton Head. Lone top-10 on the PGA TOUR came in his fifth start, a T9 at the 2005 World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, where he defeated World No 1 Vijay Singh in the second round. Defeated Jonathan Kaye and Singh before falling to Chris DiMarco in the third round. Made his Champions Tour debut in 2004 at the 2004 Senior PGA Championship in Louisville, where he finished second. Among the leaders throughout the 2004 U.S. Senior Open before finishing T3, two strokes behind Peter Jacobsen. Was runner-up to Craig Stadler in his third and final start on the Champions Tour when he finished three strokes back at 2004 The First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. Sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to give him and son Bill a victory in the two-day 2004 CVS Charity Classic at Rhode Island CC in late June. Appeared in 23 events on the PGA TOUR in 2004 and finished 27th on the final money list. Was a captain's pick on the 2004 U.S. Ryder Cup team at Oakland Hills. Son Bill qualified for the 2004 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills GC to join Jay as the first father-son duo to compete in the same U.S. Open twice. Amateur: Introduced to golf by his uncle, 1968 Masters Tournament winner Bob Goalby...Won first trophy at National Pee Wee Championship in Orlando at age 7...Brother Jerry is the golf coach at Wake Forest...Brother-in-law Dillard Pruitt played the PGA TOUR and is now a TOUR Rules Official...Appeared in a Hootie and the Blowfish music video...Son Jay, Jr. caddied for him in the 1999 PGA Championship and played college golf at Augusta State. Second son, Bill, was an All-American at Wake Forest and was the medalist and a semifinalist at the 2002 U.S. Amateur at Oakland Hills CC. Bill also won the 2004 Ben Hogan Award as the top collegiate male golfer and is a member of the PGA TOUR...Jay received the 2004 Payne Stewart Award for upholding the traditions of golf and was honored in 2005 with the Jim Murray Award from the Golf Writers Association of America and late in the 2005 season was named as the recipient of the Bob Jones Award, the United States Golf Association's highest honor for distinguished sportsmanship.