Matthew Gregory Kuchar was born on June 21,1978 and is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and formerly the Nationwide Tour.
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50 Facts About Matt Kuchar
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Matt Kuchar rejuvenated himself and built a new, one-plane swing from 2008 onward leading to improved results.
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Matt Kuchar won The Players Championship in 2012, the flagship event of the PGA Tour, his biggest tournament victory to date.
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In February 2013, Matt Kuchar won his first World Golf Championship event, defeating Hunter Mahan in the final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
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At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Matt Kuchar won the first Olympic bronze medal awarded for golf since the 1904 Summer Olympics.
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Matt Kuchar went on to graduate from Seminole High School in Sanford in 1996.
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Matt Kuchar received the Haskins Award in 1998 as the nation's top collegiate golfer, and was the low amateur at both The Masters and US Open.
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Matt Kuchar turned pro in 2000 after earning his bachelor's degree in management.
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Matt Kuchar turned professional in November 2000, after working briefly for a financial services firm.
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Matt Kuchar missed the sign-up deadline for the 2000 qualifying school.
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Matt Kuchar failed to regain it at qualifying school and played on the Nationwide Tour in 2006.
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Matt Kuchar won its Henrico County Open and finished tenth on the Nationwide Tour money list to earn back his PGA Tour card for 2007.
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Matt Kuchar retained his card for the next two seasons by finishing 115th on the money list in 2007 and 70th in 2008.
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Seven years after his first PGA Tour win, Matt Kuchar won for a second time during the Fall Series in 2009 at the Turning Stone Resort Championship.
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Matt Kuchar prevailed in a playoff over Vaughn Taylor that concluded on Monday due to darkness on Sunday evening.
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Matt Kuchar made the Ryder Cup team in 2010, taking the eighth and last merit position on the 12-man US squad on August 15.
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At the time, Matt Kuchar led the PGA Tour in top-10 finishes for the year, but had not won a tournament in 2010.
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Matt Kuchar won the Vardon Trophy and Byron Nelson Award in 2010 for lowest scoring average and the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Award for leading the money list.
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Matt Kuchar started off 2011 well with three consecutive top-10 finishes in the first three weeks of the season.
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Previously during the week Matt Kuchar had beaten Anders Hansen on the 22nd hole in round one, Bo Van Pelt in round two, Rickie Fowler in round three and Yang Yong-eun at the quarter-final stage.
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Matt Kuchar finished tied for second at the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in June 2011 behind Steve Stricker.
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Matt Kuchar finished second at The Barclays, two strokes behind the winner, Dustin Johnson.
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Matt Kuchar had his best performance in a major championship at The Masters when he finished in a tie for third.
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Matt Kuchar was tied for the lead on the back nine on Sunday, but bogeyed the par three 16th and finished two strokes out of the playoff between Bubba Watson and Louis Oosthuizen.
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Matt Kuchar shot a final round of 70 to win by two strokes over runners-up Rickie Fowler, Martin Laird, Ben Curtis, and Zach Johnson.
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Matt Kuchar entered the final round in the last group, one stroke behind Kevin Na.
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Mahan's wild drive on the par-4 17th put him in trouble, and after Matt Kuchar knocked his approach close, Mahan failed to chip in for par and conceded the hole, which ended the match and gave Matt Kuchar his first World Golf Championship title.
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Matt Kuchar defeated Hiroyuki Fujita, Sergio Garcia, Nicolas Colsaerts, Robert Garrigus and Jason Day en route to the final.
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Matt Kuchar moved back into the world's top 10 after this victory.
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Matt Kuchar was again in contention the following week at the Masters Tournament, where he was tied for the lead on Sunday before four-putting the fourth hole and finishing T-5.
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Week later, Matt Kuchar won for the seventh time on the PGA Tour with a one stroke victory at the RBC Heritage.
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Matt Kuchar shot a final-round 64, which included a chip-in birdie from a greenside bunker on the 18th hole to come from four shots behind and claim victory.
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The following week Matt Kuchar tied for second, one stroke behind the winner, at the Humana Challenge.
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Matt Kuchar played in only two official events outside of the PGA Tour in 2015 but did very well in both.
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Matt Kuchar finished one stroke back to fellow American Rickie Fowler at the Scottish Open and won the Fiji International, an official event on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
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Matt Kuchar had seven top-tens for the season but did not win a PGA Tour tournament for the first time in four years.
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Matt Kuchar finished well down the money list after finishing in the top 10 in earnings in four of the preceding five seasons.
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Matt Kuchar had 9 top-10s heading into the 2016 Summer Olympics, and continued his good run with a bronze medal after a final round 63.
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Matt Kuchar finished tied for fourth at the Masters, his fourth top-10 finish in that event.
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At the Open Championship, Matt Kuchar shared the first-round lead with Brooks Koepka and Jordan Spieth and finished rounds two and three in solo second behind Spieth.
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However, Spieth played the last five holes in five-under-par to claim the championship by three strokes over Matt Kuchar, who finished three strokes ahead of third-place finisher Li Haotong.
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Matt Kuchar won $1,720,097 for the year and finished 76th in the season long FedEx Cup.
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On February 15,2019, Matt Kuchar apologized and agreed to pay Ortiz the requested $50,000 and donate an unspecified amount to local Cancun charities.
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On March 31,2019, Matt Kuchar reached the championship round of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play for the second time in his career, having previously done so in 2013 when he went on to win the title.
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Matt Kuchar is married to Sybi Parker, who was a tennis player at Georgia Tech, and they live on St Simons Island in Georgia.
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