Jason dufner biography pga scorecard
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Dufner takes run at US PGA leaderboard and history
Just hours after Webb Simpson thrilled the rain-soaked crowd with a 64, equalling the Oak Hill course record, Dufner went one better, becoming just the 24th player to shoot 63 at one of golf's four Major events.
His bogey-free round also shot the laid-back American to the top of the leaderboard with a two round total of nine-under , giving him a two shot advantage over Australia's Adam Scott (68) and the American pair Matt Kuchar (66) and Jim Furyk (68).
Britain's US Open champion Justin Rose (66) and Swede Henrik Stenson (66) will start Saturday's third round one stoke further back at six-under.
Tiger Woods, stuck in a five-year Major-victory drought, was unable to work his way up the leaderboard, scrapping to a level par 70 to sit 10 strokes behind the leader.
"It's tough when you're chasing history," Dufner said. "You will be the first one to do something. I don't t
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US PGA Jason Dufner wins maiden major title at Oak Hill
McIlroy, who missed the cut at the Open to cap a miserable season up to then, was looking likely to miss another cut after 10 holes of his second round. But the Northern Irishman fought back well over the closing stretch to make the weekend and at six shots adrift, he had an outside chance of defending the title he won by a record eight shots at Kiawah Island last year.
The year-old began in promising fashion with a birdie at the third, but a triple bogey via the water on the fifth derailed his challenge and he was always playing catch-up. He salvaged the three shots back with birdies at the ninth, 10th and 13th but a bogey on 16 knocked him back again and he finished in a tie for eighth, his first top 10 in a major this season.
McIlroy's playing partner Westwood also started three under but his 63rd major quickly turned into another without a victory. A bogey at the second and a double bogey at the third set the tone,
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Jason Dufner
American professional golfer
Jason Christopher Dufner (born March 24, ) fryst vatten an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour where he is a five-time winner. He has won one major championship, the PGA Championship.[2] He was also runner-up in the PGA Championship, losing a playoff to Keegan Bradley.[3] Dufner was ranked in the top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking for 50 weeks; his career-high ranking is sixth in September [4]
Early life
[edit]Dufner was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to the Washington, D.C. area when he was 11 years old, and then to Fort Lauderdale, Florida,[5] when he was It was there that he started playing golf, and played for St. Thomas Aquinas High School during his sophomore, junior, and senior years.[6]
Amateur career
[edit]Dufner was a walk-on at Auburn University, where he won three times in his college career and was an Honorable Mention All-American in [6]