Abraham Ancer

Abraham Ancer
Abraham Ancer
Personal information
Born	27 February 1991 (age 33); McAllen, Texas, U.S.
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight	155 lb (70 kg; 11.1 st)
Sporting nationality	Mexico
Career
College	Odessa College; University of Oklahoma
Turned professional	2013
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Former tour(s)	Web.com Tour
Professional wins	2
Highest ranking	11 (8 August 2021); (as of 3 November 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour of Australasia	1
Korn Ferry Tour	1
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	T16: 2019
U.S. Open	T49: 2019
The Open Championship	CUT: 2018, 2019

Abraham Ancer (born 27 February 1991) is a Mexican professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2018 Emirates Australian Open.

Amateur career

Ancer was born in McAllen, Texas, raised in Reynosa, Mexico, and has dual American and Mexican citizenship.^[2] He played college golf at Odessa College and the University of Oklahoma, from which he graduated in 2013 with a degree in General Studies.^[2] ^[3]

During his one year at Odessa, Ancer was a first-team All-American and finished in a tie for second in the Junior College National Golf Championship. At Oklahoma, he saw his most success during his first year, winning twice while having the sixth-lowest scoring average in Oklahoma history of 72.03. During his entire career, he ended up second in all-time scoring average.^[3]

Professional career

Ancer turned professional in 2013. In December 2014, he tied for 35th place at the Web.com Tour Qualifying School final stage.^[4] He played on the Web.com Tour in 2015, where he finished runner-up at the Brasil Champions in March and won the Nova Scotia Open in July.^[5]

He finished 11th in the regular season money list, which earned him a PGA Tour card for the 2016 season.^[6] In his rookie year, Ancer didn't perform consistently, with a best finish of T-18 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic. He finished 190th in FedEx Cup points and couldn't maintain his card for the 2017 season, which sent him back to the Web.com Tour.^[7]^[2]

During the 2017 Web.com Tour, Ancer carded five top-5 finishes, including three runner-up finishes, which allowed him to secure his PGA Tour card for the 2018 season by finishing in 3rd place on the regular season money list.^[2]^[8]

During the 2018 season, Ancer finished 9th at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba, 8th at the Houston Open, 4th at the Quicken Loans National, 5th at the RBC Canadian Open, and 7th at the Dell Technologies Championship. The Quicken Loans National was part of the Open Qualifying Series and his high finish gave him an entry to the 2018 Open Championship, his first major championship, where he had rounds of 71 and 78 and missed the cut. In the PGA Tour season Ancer earned US$1.7 million and finished 60th in the FedEx Cup.

Ancer had a good start to the 2018–19 season with top-5 finishes in the CIMB Classic and the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, results that lifted him into the world top-100 for the first time. He followed this up with a 5-stroke victory in the Australian Open, a week before representing Mexico in the World Cup of Golf. His Australian Open win gave him an entry to the 2019 Open Championship. Ancer finished second in the Northern Trust in August 2019 and ended the year by tying for 21st at the Tour Championship. This earned him $478,000 in FedEx Cup bonus money.

Ancer's strong play in 2019 qualified him for the 2019 Presidents Cup International team. The event was held at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in December 2019. The U.S. team defeated the Internationals 16–14. Ancer went 3–1–1. His lone loss came in the Sunday singles, 3 & 2 against U.S. playing-captain Tiger Woods. Ancer had told media prior to the event that he wanted to play Woods in singles. Woods said afterward "Abe wanted it, he got it."^[9]

At the 2020 RBC Heritage, Ancer finished runner-up shooting −21, earning him $773,900. Ancer led the tournament in Driving Accuracy (82.1%) and Greens In Regulation (90.3%).^[10]

Amateur wins

2009 Odessa College Invitational
2010 Omega Chemical/Midland College, Texas Junior College Championship, NJCAA District 2 Championship
2011 Desert Shootout, NCAA East-VA Tech Regional

Source:^[11]

Professional wins (2)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

Legend
Australian Opens (1)
Other PGA Tour of Australasia (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	18 Nov 2018	Emirates Australian Open	69-69-65-69=272	−16	5 strokes	Dimitrios Papadatos

Web.com Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	5 Jul 2015	Nova Scotia Open	69-70-64-68=271	−13	Playoff	Bronson Burgoon

Web.com Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2015	Nova Scotia Open	Bronson Burgoon	Won with birdie on first extra hole
2	2017	Nashville Golf Open	Lanto Griffin	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order before 2019.

Tournament	2018	2019
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship		T16
U.S. Open		T49
The Open Championship	CUT	CUT

Did not play

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

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament	2019
The Players Championship	T12

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2018	2019	2020
Championship	T52	T39	T12
Match Play		T17	NT¹
Invitational
Champions		T4

¹Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

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