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Len Mattiace Personal information Full name Leonard Earl Mattiace Nickname Len Born October 15, 1967
Mineola, New YorkHeight 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st) Nationality United States Career College Wake Forest University Turned professional 1990 Current tour(s) PGA Tour Professional wins 2 Number of wins by tour PGA Tour 2 Best results in Major Championships Masters Tournament 2nd: 2003 U.S. Open T24: 1997 The Open Championship T30: 1999 PGA Championship T48: 2002 Leonard Earl "Len" Mattiace (born October 15, 1967) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.
Mattiace was born in Mineola, New York. He attended Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1990 with a degree in Sociology. While at Wake Forest, he played on the team that won the NCAA Division I Golf Championship in 1986. He turned pro later in 1990.
Mattiace first gained notoriety when he surged into contention in the final round of the 1998 Players Championship. Trailing by one shot going into the par-3 17th hole, he hit his tee shot into the water, his third shot into a bunker, and his fourth shot into the water. He ended up with a quintuple-bogey 8 on the hole and finished in a tie for fifth, just four strokes behind the eventual winner Justin Leonard.
Mattiace's career year was 2002, when he earned wins at the Nissan Open and the FedEx St. Jude Classic. In 2003, he shot a 65 on the final round of The Masters, which put him into a playoff with Mike Weir. Mattiace lost to Weir on the first playoff hole.
Mattiace has been ranked in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. He has a wife, and two daughters. He currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Amateur wins
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- 1985 Southern Amateur
Professional wins (2)
PGA Tour wins (2)
No. Date Tournament Winning Score Margin of Victory Runner(s)-up 1 Feb 17, 2002 Nissan Open -15 (69-65-67-68=269) 1 stroke Brad Faxon, Rory Sabbatini, Scott McCarron 2 Jun 30, 2002 FedEx St. Jude Classic -18 (69-68-65-64=266) 1 stroke Tim Petrovic PGA Tour playoff record (0–2)
No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result 1 1996 Buick Challenge Michael Bradley, Fred Funk, Davis Love III, John Maginnes Bradley won with birdie on first extra hole 2 2003 Masters Tournament Mike Weir Lost to bogey on first extra hole Results in major championships
Tournament 1988 1989 The Masters CUT DNP U.S. Open DNP DNP The Open Championship DNP DNP PGA Championship DNP DNP Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T24 DNP T42 The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T30 PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT CUT DNP Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 The Masters DNP DNP DNP 2 CUT DNP U.S. Open DNP DNP T68 T57 DNP CUT The Open Championship DNP DNP T69 T65 DNP DNP PGA Championship DNP CUT T48 T51 DNP DNP DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10United States national team appearances
Amateur
- Walker Cup: 1987 (winners)
External links
- Official website
- Len Mattiace at the PGA Tour official site
- Len's Friends Foundation official site
Categories:- American golfers
- Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's golfers
- PGA Tour golfers
- 1967 births
- Living people
- American golf biography stubs
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