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Yahoo
16-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Jay Sigel, amateur golf legend with 11 Masters appearances, dies at 81
Jay Sigel, one of the best amateur golfers of all-time, died Saturday. He was 81 years old. The U.S. Golf Association confirmed his passing Sunday. Sigel put together one of the greatest amateur resumes in golf history before turning professional and compiling eight victories on the PGA Tour Champions. He won consecutive U.S. Amateur titles in 1982 and 1983. Sigel also won three U.S. Mid-Amateurs in 1983, '85 and '87. He remains the only player to win the U.S. Am and U.S. Mid-Am in the same year. Advertisement As if that wasn't enough, he also competed in nine Walker Cup, the most of any player in the event's history. Two of those appearances came as a playing captain. His amateur resume doesn't stop there. He captured the 1979 British Amateur title, has 10 wins in the Pennsylvania Amateur, four Pennsylvania Open victories, and three wins at each prestigious amateur event: Porter Cup, Sunnehanna Amateur and Northeast Amateur. He also competed in 11 consecutive Masters tournaments from 1978-88, making the cut four times and winning low amateur honors in 1980, 1981 and 1988. Sigel played collegiately at Wake Forest, where he was was an All-American. When he turned 50 in 1993, Sigel turned pro, winning PGA Tour Champions Rookie of the Year in 1994. He amassed eight wins on the circuit. Advertisement He was born and raised in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 13, 1943, and grew up playing golf at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. He attended high school at Lower Merion High School in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Wake Forest in 1967 with a degree in sociology. He decided not to turn pro after finishing play at Wake Forest, where he was the first person to earn the Arnold Palmer Scholarship, thanks to an accident where Sigel's left hand went through a pane of glass on a swinging door. He needed 70 stitches on his wrist and spent nine days in the hospital. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Jay Sigel, amateur golf legend with 11 Masters appearances, dies at 81
USA Today
20-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Jay Sigel, amateur golf legend with 11 Masters appearances, dies at 81
Jay Sigel, amateur golf legend with 11 Masters appearances, dies at 81 Jay Sigel, one of the best amateur golfers of all-time, died Saturday. He was 81 years old. The U.S. Golf Association confirmed his passing Sunday. Sigel put together one of the greatest amateur resumes in golf history before turning professional and compiling eight victories on the PGA Tour Champions. He won consecutive U.S. Amateur titles in 1982 and 1983. Sigel also won three U.S. Mid-Amateurs in 1983, '85 and '87. He remains the only player to win the U.S. Am and U.S. Mid-Am in the same year. As if that wasn't enough, he also competed in nine Walker Cups, the most of any player in the event's history. Two of those appearances came as a playing captain. His amateur resume doesn't stop there. He captured the 1979 British Amateur title, has 10 wins in the Pennsylvania Amateur, four Pennsylvania Open victories, and three wins at each of these prestigious amateur event: Porter Cup, Sunnehanna Amateur and Northeast Amateur. He also competed in 11 consecutive Masters tournaments from 1978-88, making the cut four times and winning low amateur honors in 1980, 1981 and 1988. Sigel played collegiately at Wake Forest, where he was was an All-American. When he turned 50 in 1993, Sigel finally turned pro, winning PGA Tour Champions Rookie of the Year in 1994. He amassed eight wins on the circuit. He was born and raised in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 13, 1943, and grew up playing golf at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. He attended high school at Lower Merion High School in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Wake Forest in 1967 with a degree in sociology. He decided not to turn pro after finishing play at Wake Forest, where he was the first person to earn the Arnold Palmer Scholarship, thanks to an accident where Sigel's left hand went through a pane of glass on a swinging door. He needed 70 stitches on his wrist and spent nine days in the hospital.
USA Today
01-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Bryan Hoops sets the pace at Golfweek Senior Division National Championship
Bryan Hoops sets the pace at Golfweek Senior Division National Championship The last time Bryan Hoops teed it up in a Golfweek event, he came within inches of the title. Hoops went down to the wire with Bob Royak, the 2019 U.S. Senior Amateur champion, in the inaugural Golfweek Pirates Classic in February. After five playoff holes, it was Royak walking away with the trophy. Six weeks later, Hoops is again here. The Scottsdale, Arizona, resident took an immediate lead at the Golfweek Senior Division National Championship on Monday, played at Desert Willow Golf Club's Mountain View Course in Palm Desert, California. Hoops birdied his opening hole and added three more throughout the course of the day. A single bogey at the par-4 15th brought him back to 3-under 69, one shot ahead of Craig Miyamoto of Sacramento, California, in second. Scores: Golfweek Senior Division National Championship Hoops, 56, has long been one of the nation's top mid-amateurs, having competed in numerous U.S. Mid-Amateurs throughout his career in addition to having won a handful of Arizona Mid-Amateurs in his home state. More recently, Hoops also qualified for the 2022 U.S. Senior Open and the 2024 U.S. Senior Amateur. The top of the Golfweek Senior Division National Championship leaderboard is West Coast-heavy, with Randy Haag of Orinda, California, and Robert Funk of Canyon Lake, California, part of a three-way tie for third. Chad Branton of Cartersville, Georgia, joined them at 1 under. Haag was recently part of the winning duo at the NCGA Senior Four-Ball while Funk finished runner-up with his partner. Funk also finished runner-up at the San Francisco City Senior Championship in March. Kevin VandenBerg, who has won Golfweek Senior Player of the Year honors each of the past two years, landed as part of a tie for sixth after a colorful starting stretch that included an eagle, two birdies, and three bogeys in his first seven holes. He finished at even-par 72.
