Peter Jacobsen - Media Guide

week later to post his best effort of 2007, a T5 at the Toshiba Classic in California. Trailed by one stroke heading into the final round following a second-round, 7-under 64, matching his career-low score on the Champions Tour. Eventually closed with an even-par 71...Was then forced to withdraw from the AT&T Champions Classic the following week and did not play again until late May...Withdrew again before the final round of the JELD-WEN Tradition with lower-back issues...Was T10 in his final appearance of the season at the Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. Sandwiched rounds of 68 around a second-round 74.

for the third consecutive year...Best showing was a T3 at the U.S. Senior Open. After an opening round, 2-over-par 72, followed with three consecutive rounds in the 60s to remain among the leaders throughout the final three rounds. Was 3-under-par after eight holes Sunday, but his undoing was a double bogey on No. 9 and a bogey at No. 11...Hobbled by a sore right knee at the start of the season and eventually had a series of synthetic cartilage injections in hopes of avoiding knee replacement...Finished T4 in the AT&T Classic at Valencia and then made a spirited run on the final day of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf before finishing T2 behind Jay Haas. 2005: Was a top-30 finisher despite knee woes which limited him to just 10 Champions Tour starts. Initially underwent surgery on his right knee at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, CO, on Feb. 14 and was out of action until THE PLAYERS Championship at the end of March, where he missed the cut. Had surgery on the same knee again on September 7 at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic to remove floating pieces of torn cartilage and returned in late October at the FUNAI Classic at Walt Disney World Resort...Just prior to the second surgery, knee problems forced him to withdraw from the Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach before the start of the final round...Highlight of the campaign came in July when he picked up his second win in a major championship on the Champions Tour, nipping Hale Irwin by one stroke at the Ford Senior Players Championship near Detroit. Key birdies on two of the final three holes were instrumental in his come-from-behind win. Had started the final round three strokes behind Irwin but closed with a 6-under-par 66 for the win. Victory made him just one of three golfers (Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus) whose first two Champions Tour wins came in major championships...Finished T10 at the season-opening MasterCard Championship and then did not play again on the Champions Tour until the Blue Angels Classic near Pensacola in early May. Opened and closed with rounds of 65 to T3 at The Moors, three strokes out of a playoff...Played in 11 events on the PGA TOUR and made the cut in five of them, including the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 where he finished T15. It was his first start in the U.S. Open since 1996 (T23) and earned an exemption into the tournament after winning the 2004 U.S. Senior Open. It was his first made-cut in a major on the PGA TOUR since the 1997 PGA Championship (T67). Made a hole-in-one on 175-yard No. 9 (7-iron) on Saturday, which led to a one-under 69 in the third round, his first sub-70 performance at a PGA TOUR major championship since posting a 69 in the final round of the 1996 British Open and his first score in the 60s at a U.S. Open since shooting 64 during the final round of the 1998 event at The Country Club in Brookline, MA. 2004: Officially joined the Champions Tour at the SBC Classic in March shortly after turning 50, but subsequent left hip surgery in April kept him out of action on the Tour for nearly three months...Highlight of his season came in his third start on the Champions Tour in late July when he was one-stroke victor over Hale Irwin in the U.S. Senior Open near St. Louis. Posted rounds of 69-68 Sunday, despite walking all 36 holes in 90-degree heat at Bellerive with a sore left hip. Became the second-youngest champion in U.S. Senior Open history at 50 years, 4 months, 28 days (Dale Douglass is youngest at 50/3/24)...Nearly won his second major title less than a month later. Shared the third-round lead with Vicente Fernandez at the JELD-WEN Tradition near his home in Portland, but couldn't hang on in Sunday's final round. Was among a half-dozen players slugging it out down the stretch on Sunday's back nine but saw his chances go awry when he made a double bogey at No. 17. Birdied the final hole, but his closing-round, 1-over-par 73 left him T4...Appeared to be in the driver's seat down the stretch at the inaugural Administaff Small Business Classic but dumped his second shot in the water from a fairway bunker on the par-5 final hole and fell one stroke short of a playoff with Hale Irwin and eventual winner Larry Nelson...Had to withdraw from both the Ford Senior Players Championship and the Senior British Open with hip problems prior to his U.S. Senior Open win...Finished third in his Champions Tour debut at the SBC Classic at Valencia in early March. Was among the first-round leaders after opening with 5-under 67...After almost three months away from competition, was tied for the first-round lead at the Commerce Bank Long Island Classic after establishing his career-best score on the Champions Tour, a 6-under 64 on Friday...Had undergone left hip surgery in early April to repair a torn labrum and did not play again until early July at Eisenhower Park.

Biggest thrill outside of golf was recording the Jake Trout and the Flounders CD with Payne Stewart and Mark Lye, along with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Glenn Frey, Alice Cooper and Darius Rucker...Wife, Jan, was on the golf and gymnastics teams at Oregon...Dream foursome would include his late father and brother as well as Ben Hogan...Favorite book is Timeline...First job was working at a golf course on the grounds crew...Favorite athlete is Arnold Palmer...Heroes are Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino and Johnny Miller...Favorite golf courses are Pebble Beach GL and Cypress Point...Favorites also include "Forrest Gump," Danny Gans, Golf in the Kingdom and barbecue...Web site is peterjacobsengolf.com.