Jay Delsing
| Jay Delsing | |
|---|---|
 Delsing in 2021 | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | October 17, 1960 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Weight | 210 lb (95 kg; 15 st) |
| Sporting nationality |  United States |
| Career | |
| College | UCLA |
| Turned professional | 1984 |
| Current tour(s) | Champions Tour |
| Former tour(s) | PGA Tour Nationwide Tour |
| Professional wins | 4 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| Korn Ferry Tour | 2 |
| Other | 2 |
| Best results in major championships | |
| Masters Tournament | DNP |
| PGA Championship | T63: 1990 |
| U.S. Open | T33: 1992 |
| The Open Championship | T88: 1995 |
Jay Delsing (born October 17, 1960) is an American professional golfer.
Childhood and family
[edit]Delsing was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Delsing's father, Jim, was an outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, and Kansas City A's from 1948 to 1960.
Delsing grew up in the North County Area of the St. Louis region. He learned golf at the now demolished North Shore Country Club that formerly was on the banks of the Mississippi River near the historic Chain of Rocks Bridge.
College career
[edit]Delsing played college golf at UCLA with Corey Pavin, Steve Pate, Tom Pernice Jr., and Duffy Waldorf. He is third all-time in tournament victories for UCLA men's golf with seven. This includes four victories in the 1981–82 season. He is only behind Pavin's 11 and Waldorf's 9.[1]
He was second-team All-Pac-10 in 1981, and first-team in 1982 and 1983. He was a key member of two Pacific-10 title teams. He earned first-team All-America honors in 1982 and second team in 1983.[2] He graduated from UCLA in 1983 with a degree in economics.
Professional career
[edit]Delsing competed in 565 PGA Tour events in his career. His best finishes on the PGA Tour are a T2 at the 1993 New England Classic and the 1995 FedEx St. Jude Classic. He also had 3 third-place finishes, 11 top-5 finishes and 30 top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour.[3]
Hole in ones and course records
[edit]Delsing currently ranks 15th in PGA Tour history with 5 hole-in-one.[4] His most famous came at the Phoenix Open in 1991[5] on the 16th hole. While playing a practice round for a corporate function at Greystone Golf Club[6] in Ontario, California, Delsing made a hole-in-one on the 301 yard par-4, 15th hole. The club added a plaque to commemorate the accomplishment.
In the second round of the 1985 B.C. Open, Delsing tied the course record,[7] set by Fuzzy Zoeller in 1982, by shooting a −9 round of 62. The tournament was held at the En-Joie Golf Club in Endicott, New York. The course record stood until Kevin Sutherland shot a 59 at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open on the Champions Tour in 2014.
In the fourth round of the 1993 Federal Express St. Jude Classic, Delsing set a course record that still stands by shooting a −10, 61.[8]
In the second round of 2002 Buy.com Tour Championship, Delsing set a tournament record with a –9, 63 on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama.[9]
PGA Tour Champions
[edit]Delsing has appeared in 15 tournaments on the PGA Champions Tour.[10] He has made the cut in all 15. In 2015, he competed in the U.S. Senior Open at Del Paso Country Club in Sacramento, California while simultaneously covering the event as an on course commentator for Fox Sports. He finished the tournament tied for 54th place.
Radio and television work
[edit]In 2015, Delsing joined Fox Sports as an on-course commentator and broadcaster.[11]
Since 2019, Delsing has hosted Golf with Jay Delsing on 101.1 ESPN Radio in St. Louis Missouri. His current co-host is Dan McLaughlin, the long-time TV voice of the St. Louis Cardinals on Bally Sports.
Hall of Fame Inductions
[edit]In 2020 Delsing was inducted in to the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame. Upon his induction he said “There is one thing I learned long ago: our days on the golf course are special not because of the quality of the golf that we play, but because of the quality of the people that we play with.”[12]
In 2023 Delsing was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame for his career and life in golf. He spoke about the people that helped his career in golf at his induction. “My entire family was really important as a youngster,” he said. “In college Corey Pavin and Steve Pate were extremely important to me. As a pro Andy North helped me early in my career and Bob Rotella was a huge factor. My brother, Bart, and my close friends Tim Twellman and John Perles have had the most positive impact overall in my career.”[13]
Professional wins (4)
[edit]Buy.com Tour wins (2)
[edit]| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 12, 2001 | Buy.com Fort Smith Classic | −17 (66-66-66-65=263) | Playoff | Jeff Freeman
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| 2 | Aug 4, 2002 | Omaha Classic | −21 (66-66-67-68=267) | 1 stroke |  Anthony Painter
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Buy.com Tour playoff record (1–0)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2001 | Buy.com Fort Smith Classic | Jeff Freeman
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Won with par on fourth extra hole |
Other wins (2)
[edit]- 1993 Jerry Ford Invitational (tie with Donnie Hammond, and Jim Thorpe)
- 1999 Tartan Fields Celebrity Invitational with teammates Herb Williams and Jack Haley
1999 Tartan Fields Celebrity Invitational Championship Trophy. Won by PGA professional Jay Delsing, with teammates Jack Haley and Herb Williams
Results in major championships
[edit]| Tournament | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Open | CUT | T33 | CUT | ||||||||||||||
| The Open Championship | T88 | ||||||||||||||||
| PGA Championship | T63 | CUT | CUT |
Note: Delsing never played in the Masters Tournament.
See also
[edit]- 1984 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
- 1987 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
- 1988 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
- 1989 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
- 1996 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
- 1998 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
- 2003 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
References
[edit]- ^ "UCLA Men's Golf – Career Tournament Victories" (PDF). p. 26.
- ^ Administrator. "Honors and Awards :: PING All-America Teams :: 1980-89". GCAA. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
- ^ "Jay Delsing". PGA Tour. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- ^ "Who Has Most Career Holes-in-One on PGA Tour?". BetMGM. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
- ^ Auclair, T. J. (February 13, 2022). "Holes in one on No. 16 at TPC Scottsdale in the Waste Management Phoenix Open". Caddie Network. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
- ^ "Greystone Golf Club - Greystone Golf Club". greystone.clublink.ca. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
- ^ "Joey Sindelar fired a 6-under-par 65 Thursday to grab..." UPI. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ Reinman, Jimmy. "Justin Rose shoots 61 to tie TPC Southwind's course record". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
- ^ "Delsing eases frustration, takes Buy.com lead with a 63". ESPN. Associated Press. October 26, 2002. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ "Jay Delsing – Career". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
- ^ Delsing, Jay. "Jay Delsing Linkedin". Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- ^ Moore, Tim. "Jay Delsing". St Louis Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
- ^ "Jay Delsing". Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Jay Delsing at the PGA Tour official site
- Jay Delsing at the Official World Golf Ranking official site