Nolan Ray

JOINED TOUR

• PGA TOUR Canada: 2021

Additional Victories (1)

• 2021 Tennessee State Open

Personal

• Wife, Anna (McClung), was two-time Gatorade National Player of the Year in soccer during high school. She played collegiately for Florida State and Tennessee. Brother-in-law Mac McClung played basketball for Texas Tech and broke Allen Iverson’s record for most all-time points scored in Virginia high school history.
• Interned at AssuredPartners in the accounting department during 2020.
• Earliest golf memory is winning the junior club championship at his home course. It was a six-hole tournament that he says "felt like he had just won a huge tournament."
• Always carries two tees in his pocket.
• Calls himself a bit of a "coffee snob." Travels with his own coffee and brews it in his hotel before he plays.
• When he was young, he would put his plastic golf clubs in the back of his toy car and cry whenever his dad didn't take him to the course with him. Ever since, his dad has been his biggest supporter and has sacrificed a lot for him to get where he is today.

Special Interests

• Playing with his dog Toby, listening to country music, snow skiing, fishing

Career Highlights

2022 Season

Played in all 10 PGA TOUR Canada tournaments but only made three cuts. Still qualified for the season-ending Fortinet Cup Championship on the strength of one top-five performance. Finished the season No. 30 on the Fortinet Cup standings.

• Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by Times Colonist: At Uplands GC for the PGA TOUR Canada season-opener, used four sub-70 rounds, including second- and final-round 67s to T5 with Etienne Papineau in early June.
• PGA TOUR Canada Q-School USA East 3: Opened and closed with a pair of 68s at the RTJ Golf Trail at Highland Oaks in Dothan, Alabama, in mid-March to T12 and earn conditional PGA TOUR Canada status.

2021 Season

• Tennessee Open: Began the final round at Dickson's GreyStone GC a stroke in the lead after opening 64-65. Pulled away on the back nine, shooting a 66 to finish at 21-under, breaking the tournament scoring record on his way to a five-stroke triumph over amateur Cameron Tankersley. The win was worth $10,000.
• Forme Tour Q-School-USA East 3: Finished T24 at RTJ Golf Trail at Highland Oaks in Dothan, Alabama, in mid-March. Was conditionally exempt for the entire 2021 Forme Tour season.

Amateur Highlights

• Won three tournaments in 2019. First came at the Tennessee State Amateur when he edged William Nottingham by a stroke in mid-August. A month later, with school back in session, he won the University of Texas-San Antonio’s Lone Star Invitational, beating Guillaume Fanonnel by a stroke. Later that month, prevailed at the Autotrader Collegiate Classic by four shots over George Heath.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• PGA TOUR Canada: 2021
• PGA TOUR Canada: 2022