Brett Wetterich

Brett Wetterich
Brett Wetterich
Personal information
Full name	Brett Milton Wetterich
Born	August 9, 1973 (age 51); Cincinnati, Ohio
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	205 lb (93 kg; 14.6 st)
Sporting nationality	United States
Spouse	Erin Elizabeth Noel
Career
College	Wallace State Community College
Turned professional	1994
Current tour(s)	Web.com Tour
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	4
Highest ranking	21 (March 25, 2007)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	1
Korn Ferry Tour	3
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	T37: 2007
PGA Championship	T32: 2007
U.S. Open	CUT: 1998, 2007
The Open Championship	CUT: 2006, 2007

Brett Milton Wetterich (born August 9, 1973) is an American professional golfer.

Wetterich was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Oak Hills High School and Wallace State Community College. He turned professional in 1994.

Wetterich was a PGA Tour rookie in 2000, but injury truncated his season and he spent the next few seasons playing mainly on the Nationwide Tour, where he had wins in 2003 and 2004. He returned to the PGA Tour in 2005 and in 2006 he won the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. This win helped him secure a place on the 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup team by finishing tenth on the points list. He became the first (and as of 2018, the only) player to go from Q-School to making the Ryder Cup team in the following year.^[2] He also finished tenth on the 2006 year-end PGA Tour money list with earnings of $3,023,185.^[3]

Wetterich led the 2007 Masters Tournament at the mid-way point, but collapsed on Saturday, shooting an 83, the highest score posted by any weekend leader in the storied tournament's history. He finished the tournament T37.^[2]

Shoulder injuries cut Wetterich's 2008 season short, kept him off the course in 2009, and cost him significant Tour status in 2010 after he failed to satisfy his medical exemption. He finished 156th on the money list and was demoted to the Past Champions category, among the lowest priority rankings on Tour. He won his third event on the Nationwide Tour in 2011, but finished 29th on the money list, four places short of a PGA Tour card. Wetterich has not played a full PGA Tour season since 2010.

Wetterich has been featured in the top 25 of the Official World Golf Ranking, reaching a career high of 21st in 2007.

Professional wins (4)

PGA Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	May 14, 2006	EDS Byron Nelson Championship	−12 (66-64-70-68=268)	1 stroke	Trevor Immelman

Nationwide Tour wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Mar 30, 2003	Chitimacha Louisiana Open	−24 (62-68-64-70=264)	3 strokes	Ken Duke
2	Aug 29, 2004	Envirocare Utah Classic	−16 (67-69-65-71=272)	1 stroke	Ryuji Imada, Franklin Langham
3	Mar 27, 2011	Chitimacha Louisiana Open (2)	−13 (67-65-70-69=271)	1 stroke	Andrés Echavarría (a)

Results in major championships

Tournament	1998	2006	2007	2008
Masters Tournament			T37	CUT
U.S. Open	CUT		CUT
The Open Championship		CUT	CUT
PGA Championship		CUT	T32

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament	2007	2008
The Players Championship	T52	CUT

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2006	2007	2008
Match Play		R64
Championship	T6	2	T61
Invitational	T36	T30

Top 10

Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied

U.S. national team appearances

Ryder Cup: 2006

References

^ "Week 12 2007 Ending 25 Mar 2007" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Beall, Joel (March 31, 2017). "What Might Have Been". Golf Digest.
^ 2006 PGA Tour Money Leaders

External links

Brett Wetterich at the PGA Tour official site
Brett Wetterich at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

[w200712-1] "Week 12 2007 Ending 25 Mar 2007" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved October 3, 2019.

[masters17-2] Beall, Joel (March 31, 2017). "What Might Have Been". Golf Digest.

[3] 2006 PGA Tour Money Leaders

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