Jacob Loya

JOINED TOUR

• PGA TOUR Latinoamérica: 2020

Personal

• Owns a construction-management company–Jacob CM–that partners with his father's architectural firm LoyaWilke.
• Comes from a business-oriented family. His wife owns Nourish Chiropractic in El Paso, Texas, and his mother owns two Yvonne’s Mexican Grill restaurants in the same city. Father is a managing partner at LoyaWilke Architects.
• Met his wife through his future brother-in-law, who he played golf with growing up. He later began playing with his future father-in-law at his home course two years before the couple started dating.
• Has the auto-immune disease vitiligo that changes the pigment of his skin in certain areas as well as his hair color.
• Took a year off of golf in 2017-18 to focus on work at a construction company, but once the firm was running smoothly, he returned to golf.
• Hunts dove and quail, although, as he says, “with little success.”

Special Interests

CURRENT YEAR HIGHLIGHTS

• PTLA Qualifying Tournament-Mexico: Opened 67-65 at Estrella del Mar Golf and Beach Resort in Mazatlan in mid-January to T6 with four others. Will be exempt for the first half of the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica season.

Career Highlights

2020 Season

• PTLA Qualifying Tournament-Mexico: Opened 67-65 at Estrella del Mar Golf and Beach Resort in Mazatlan in mid-January to T6 with four others. Will be exempt for the first half of the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica season.

2018 Season

Saw action in one PGA TOUR Latinoamerica event, missing the cut.

2016 Season

Played in four PGA TOUR Latinoamerica tournaments, missing the cut in all four.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• PGA TOUR Latinoamérica: 2020