Brett Quigley
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Brett Quigley is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 professional golf
Golf
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er.

Quigley was born in Fort Devens, Massachusetts
Fort Devens, Massachusetts
Devens, Massachusetts is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the successor to Fort Devens, a military post that operated from 1917 to 1996. The area...

. He is the nephew of PGA Tour
PGA Tour
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 and Champions Tour
Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...

 golfer Dana Quigley
Dana Quigley
Dana C. Quigley is an American professional golfer.Quigley was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1969 and turned professional in 1971....

. He won the 1987 U.S. Junior Amateur and attended the University of South Carolina
University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House...

, where he was twice an Academic All-American, before turning professional in 1991.

Quigley has spent his career bouncing between the PGA Tour and the second tier Nationwide Tour
Nationwide Tour
The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...

. His best finish on the main tour is second, but he has two wins on the lower tour, the 1996 NIKE Philadelphia Classic, and the 2001 BUY.COM Arkansas Classic. His main strength is his short game. Despite his lack of stature (5-11 and circa 160 pounds), he is also a long driver.

Quigley finished in the top 20 of the PGA Tour money list in 2006. He has played on the PGA Tour exclusively since 2002, and his career earnings exceed $10,000,000.

Nationwide Tour wins (2)

  • 1996 NIKE Philadelphia Classic
  • 2001
    2001 Buy.com Tour
    The 2001 Buy.com Tour season ran from Mar 8 to October 28. The season consisted of 27 official money golf tournaments, and one canceled tournament. Two tournaments were played outside of the United States...

     BUY.COM Arkansas Classic

Results in major championships

Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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U.S. Open
U.S. Open (golf)
The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...

CUT CUT DNP T28 DNP DNP CUT CUT T60 DNP
The Open Championship
The Open Championship
The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...

DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT CUT DNP DNP
PGA Championship
PGA Championship
The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...

DNP CUT DNP DNP T37 CUT CUT T62 DNP CUT


DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" = tied

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

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