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Jay Delsing
Delsing in 2021
Personal information
Born (1960-10-17) October 17, 1960 (age 63)
St. Louis, Missouri
Height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Weight210 lb (95 kg; 15 st)
Sporting nationality United States
Career
CollegeUCLA
Turned professional1984
Current tour(s)Champions Tour
Former tour(s)PGA Tour
Nationwide Tour
Professional wins3
Number of wins by tour
Korn Ferry Tour2
Other1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipT63: 1990
U.S. OpenT33: 1992
The Open ChampionshipT88: 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-12 in 1981, and first-team in 1982 and 1983.

Delsing was named to the NCAA American Team twice. First team All-American in 1982 and Second Team All-American 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.

Jay Delsing hole in one plaque Greystone Golf Club Ontario
Plaque on 15th hole at Greystone Golf Club commemorating Delsing's hole-in-one.

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 14 tournaments on the PGA Champions Tour.[10] He has made the cut in all 14. 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.

Professional wins (3)[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 United States Jeff Freeman
2 Aug 4, 2002 Omaha Classic −21 (66-66-67-68=267) 1 stroke Australia Anthony Painter

Buy.com Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2001 Buy.com Fort Smith Classic United States Jeff Freeman Won with par on fourth extra hole

Other wins (1)[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "UCLA Men's Golf – Career Tournament Victories" (PDF). p. 26.
  2. ^ Administrator. "Honors and Awards :: PING All-America Teams :: 1980-89". GCAA. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
  3. ^ "Jay Delsing". PGA Tour. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
  4. ^ "Who Has Most Career Holes-in-One on PGA Tour?". BetMGM. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Greystone Golf Club - Greystone Golf Club". greystone.clublink.ca. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  7. ^ "Joey Sindelar fired a 6-under-par 65 Thursday to grab..." UPI. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  8. ^ Reinman, Jimmy. "Justin Rose shoots 61 to tie TPC Southwind's course record". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  9. ^ "Delsing eases frustration, takes Buy.com lead with a 63". ESPN. Associated Press. October 26, 2002. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
  10. ^ "Jay Delsing – Career". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  11. ^ Delsing, Jay. "Jay Delsing Linkedin". Retrieved December 1, 2023.

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