Tze-Chung Chen

Tze-Chung Chen 陳志忠
Personal information
Born	24 June 1958 (1958-06-24) (age 53)
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	72 kg (160 lb; 11.3 st)
Nationality	Taiwan
Residence	Taipei
Career
Turned professional	1980
Former tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour PGA Tour
Professional wins	15
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	1
Japan Golf Tour	6
Other	8
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	T12: 1987
U.S. Open	T2: 1985
The Open Championship	CUT: 1987
PGA Championship	T23: 1985

Tze-Chung Chen (陳志忠; pinyin: Chén Zhìzhōng) (born 24 June 1958) is a Taiwanese professional golfer. In the U.S., he is often referred to as T.C. Chen. His older brother, Tze-Ming Chen, is also a professional golfer. In 1982, T.C. Chen became the first professional golfer from Taiwan to earn a PGA Tour card. He played a total of 132 tournaments on the PGA Tour, making the cut in 78, with 13 top-ten finishes, and over $633,000 in total earnings.

At the 1985 U.S. Open, he scored the first double eagle in U.S. Open history and tied the record low scores for the championship at that time after 36 holes (134) and 54 holes (203), but he fell away in the final round and finished tied for second, one shot behind Andy North. His fourth round included a quadruple bogey eight that featured a chip shot that he hit twice in one swing, and became part of the history of disastrous shots in the final round of a major. As a result of this shot, he is sometimes referred to as "Two Chip" Chen. He nearly recovered to win on the 18th, missing a chip shot by one inch, which secured the victory for North.

Chen finished second twice in his career, at the 1983 Kemper Open, where he lost a five-man playoff to Fred Couples, and the 1985 U.S. Open. He played on the PGA Tour for 10 years, having his best year in 1987, when he finished 51st in earnings, 12th at the Masters, and won the 1987 Los Angeles Open. He would return to Asia in 1990, played extensively on the Japan Golf Tour, where he won six tournaments, and also appeared occasionally on the European Tour. He last played on the PGA Tour in 1997, returning to the U.S. to play in in the Los Angeles Open. He also played the 2008 Senior British Open on the Champions Tour.

Professional wins (15)

PGA Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner-up
1	22 Feb 1987	Los Angeles Open	-9 (70-67-67-71=275)	Playoff	Ben Crenshaw

Japan Golf Tour wins (6)

• 1981 Sapporo Tokyu Open
• 1985 Dunlop International Open
• 1991 Ube Kosan Open
• 1992 Jun Classic
• 1993 Mitsubishi Galant Tournament, Daiwa KBC Augusta

Other wins (8)

• 1984 King Grapes Classic (Japan)
• 1985 Korean Open
• 1989 Mercuries Taiwan Masters, Chang Hwa Open (Taipei), ROC PGA Championship (Taipei), Chang Kang Open (Taipei)
• 1990 Japan Chunichi Crown Open
• 1991 ROC PGA Championship (Taipei)

Results in major championships

Tournament	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	T23	T12	T19	52
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	T2	T59	CUT	CUT	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	72	CUT	T23	DNP	T47	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

External links

• Tze-Chung Chen at the Asian Tour official site
• Tze-Chung Chen at the Japan Golf Tour official site
• Tze-Chung Chen at the PGA Tour official site

Persondata
Name	Chen, Tze-Chung
Alternative names	Chen, T.C.
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	24 June 1958
Place of birth
Date of death
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