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FRED FUNK

UNITED STATES

Height:

5 ft, 8 in

Weight:

165 lbs

Birthday:

06/14/1956

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College: University of Maryland (1980, Law Enforcement)
Turned Pro: 1981
Birthplace: Takoma Park, Maryland
Residence: Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

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Fred Funk
DULUTH, GA - APRIL 20: Fred Funk putts for birdie on the eighjth gree... Launch

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PERSONAL

Golf coach at University of Maryland from 1982 through 1988.

Also worked as newspaper circulation supervisor before joining TOUR.

One of the first TOUR players to have LASIK surgery.

Named to the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007 as well as the state of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame.

Active in Jacksonville (Fla.) community, raising funds for J.T. Townsend, who suffered a spinal cord injury playing high school football in 2004. Assisted in raising money for after-care expenses and building a wheelchair-accessible home for Townsend. The family moved into the home in 2006.

Made his first hole-in-one at the Mid-Atlantic Pro-Am at Evergreen CC in Virginia with a 6-iron from 165 yards.

Says the one thing being a professional golfer has allowed him to do is help others.

One course he could play for the rest of his life is Pebble Beach because of its beauty.