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SECTION 2 PLAYER BIOGRAPHIES
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JOINED CHAMPIONS TOUR: 2004
CHAMPIONS TOUR VICTORIES (2): 2004
U.S. Senior Open. 2005 Ford Senior Players
Championship.
2005 CHARLES SCHWAB CUP FINISH:
17th - 996 points
PGA TOUR VICTORIES (7): 1980 Buick-Goodwrench
Open. 1984 Colonial National Invitation, Sammy Davis Jr.-
Greater Hartford Open. 1990 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
1995 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Buick
Invitational of California. 2003 Greater Hartford Open.
OTHER VICTORIES (8): 1974 Pacific-8 Conference
Championship [indiv]. 1976 Oregon Open, Northern
California Open. 1979 Western Australian Open. 1981
Johnnie Walker Cup. 1982 Johnnie Walker Cup. 1986 Fred
Meyer Challenge [with Curtis Strange]. 2005 ADT Skills
Challenge.
PGA TOUR CAREER EARNINGS: $7,753,553
BEST 2005 CHAMPIONS TOUR FINISHES:
1—Ford Senior Players Championship; T3—Blue Angels
Classic; T6—Senior PGA Championship; T10—
MasterCard Championship.
BEST 2005 PGA TOUR FINISHES:
T15—U.S. Open Championship; T25—MCI Heritage.
2005 SEASON:
Was a top-30 finisher and earned his second consecutive
berth in the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup
Championship despite knee woes which limited him to
just 10 starts on the Champions Tour…Overcame health
problems to earn Comeback Player of the Year
honors…Initially underwent surgery on his right knee at
the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, CO, on Feb. 14 and
was out of action until THE PLAYERS Championship at the
end of March, where he missed the cut. Had surgery on
the same knee again on September 7 at the Steadman-
Hawkins Clinic to remove floating pieces of torn cartilage
and returned in late October at the FUNAI Classic at Walt
Disney World Resort…Just prior to the second surgery,
knee problems forced him to withdraw from the Wal-Mart
First Tee Open at Pebble Beach before the start of the final
round… Highlight of the campaign came in July when he
picked up his second win in a major championship on the
Peter Jacobsen
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 30 on 2005 Champions Tour
Money List
FULL NAME: Peter Erling Jacobsen
HEIGHT: 6-2
WEIGHT: 225
BIRTHDATE: March 4, 1954
BIRTHPLACE: Portland, OR
CHAMPIONS TOUR CAREER SUMMARY PLAYOFF RECORD: 0-0
Year Events Played 1st 2nd 3rd Top 10 Top 25 Earnings Rank
2004 9 1 2 6 7 $1,040,690 16
2005 10 1 1 4 5 641,283 29
Total 19 2 3 10 12 1,681,973
COMBINED ALL-TIME MONEY (3 TOURS): $9,435,526
Champions Tour, nipping Hale Irwin by one stroke at the
Ford Senior Players Championship near Detroit. Key
birdies on two of the final three holes were instrumental
in his come-from-behind win. Had started the final round
three strokes behind Irwin but closed with a 6-under-par
66 for the win. Victory made him just one of three golfers
(Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus) whose first two
Champions Tour wins came in major
championships…Finished T10 at the season-opening
MasterCard Championship and then did not play again on
the Champions Tour until the Blue Angels Classic near
Pensacola in early May. Opened and closed with rounds of
65 to T3 at The Moors, three strokes out of a
playoff…Was on the leaderboard all four days of the
Senior PGA Championship and eventually T6 at Laurel
Valley after posting a final-round 75…Played in 11 events
on the PGA TOUR and made the cut in five, including the
U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 where he finished T15. It was
his first start in the U.S. Open since 1996 (T23) and earned
an exemption into the tournament after winning the 2004
U.S. Senior Open. It was his first made cut in a major on
the PGA TOUR since the 1997 PGA Championship (T67).
Performance at Pinehurst earned him a return trip to the
prestigious event in 2006. Made a hole-in-one on 175-yard
No. 9 (7-iron) on Saturday, which led to a 1-under 69 in the
third round, his first sub-70 performance at a PGA TOUR
major championship since posting a 69 in the final round
of the 1996 British Open and his first score in the 60s at a
U.S. Open since shooting 64 during the final round of the
1998 event at The Country Club in Brookline, MA…Had
good showing at the MCI Heritage on the PGA TOUR in
May, finishing T25…Also finished T28 at the PGA TOUR's
Sony Open in Hawaii at the start of the year.
CHAMPIONS TOUR CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
2004: Officially joined the Champions Tour at the SBC
Classic in March shortly after turning 50, but subsequent
left hip surgery in April kept him out of action on the Tour
for nearly three months…Highlight of his season came in
his third start on the Champions Tour in late July when he
was one-stroke victor over Hale Irwin in the U.S. Senior
Open near St. Louis. Posted rounds of 69-68 Sunday,
despite walking all 36 holes in 90-degree heat at Bellerive
with a sore left hip. Became the second-youngest champion
in Senior Open history at 50 years, 4 months, 28 days
(Dale Douglass is youngest at 50/3/24)…Nearly won his
second major title less than a month later. Shared the
third-round lead with Vicente Fernandez at the JELD-WEN
Champions Tour 2006 Guide
RESIDENCE: Bonita Springs, FL
FAMILY: Wife, Jan; Amy (7/19/80), Kristen (2/23/82),
Mick (10/12/84)
EDUCATION: University of Oregon
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Music
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1976
JOINED PGA TOUR: 1977
Tradition near his home in Portland, but couldn't hang on
in Sunday's final round. Was among a half-dozen players
slugging it out down the stretch on Sunday's back nine but
saw his chances go awry when he made a double bogey
at No. 17. Birdied the final hole, but his closing-round, 1over-par
73 left him T4…Appeared to be in the driver's
seat down the stretch at the inaugural Administaff Small
Business Classic but dumped his second shot in the water
from a fairway bunker on the par-5 final hole and fell one
stroke short of a playoff with Hale Irwin and eventual winner
Larry Nelson…Had to withdraw from both the Ford
Senior Players Championship and the Senior British Open
with hip problems prior to his Senior Open win…Finished
third in his Champions Tour debut at the SBC Classic in
early March. Was among the first-round leaders at
Valencia after opening with 5-under 67…Also was tied for
the first-round lead at the Commerce Bank Long Island
Classic after firing a 6-under 64 on Friday. Eventually T26
at Eisenhower Park after experiencing pain in his left hip
on the weekend…Withdrew from the MCI Heritage
Classic on the PGA TOUR in April and underwent left hip
surgery to repair a torn labrum the following week. Did not
play again until early July at the Commerce Bank Long
Island Classic…Has made 16 holes-in-one in competitive
rounds.
OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Qualified for the PGA TOUR in Fall 1976 and won seven
times in 27 years on the circuit…Finished among the top
60 on the 2003 PGA TOUR money list with a personal-best
$1,162,726 for a single season. Highlight of his year was
his seventh career victory on TOUR at the Greater Hartford
Open. Held at least a share of the lead for all four days in
carding four rounds in the 60s (63-67-69-67--266).
Defeated Chris Riley by two strokes at the TPC at River
Highlands. Victory came 19 years since last win at
Hartford (1984), joining Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Paul
Azinger and Phil Mickelson as multiple winners of the
event. Triumph also came in his 27th season on the PGA
TOUR (624th career tournament), making him seventh-oldest
winner in TOUR history at 49 years, 4 months, 23 days.
First-place check of $720,000 was exactly 10 times more
than he earned for his first GHO victory in 1984 ($72,000).
Named 2003 PGA TOUR Comeback Player of the
Year…His highest finish on the money list came in 1995
when he was seventh ($1,075,057) on the strength of
back-to-back victories at the AT&T Pebble Beach National
CHAMPIONS TOUR MAJOR TOURNAMENT SUMMARY
Year 04 05
Senior PGA Championship T6
Ford Senior Players 1
Senior British Open T56
U.S. Senior Open 1 T26
JELD-WEN Tradition T4 T42
CHAMPIONS TOUR YEAR-BY-YEAR STATISTICS (TOP 50 ON 2005 MONEY LIST)
Scoring Average Putting Average Greens in Regulation Driving Distance Driving Accuracy
2004 69.40 (N/A) 1.772 (N/A) 76.3 (N/A) 282.3 (N/A) 73.3 (N/A)
2005 70.83 (N/A) 1.757 (N/A) 72.9 (N/A) 283.1 (N/A) 74.2 (N/A)
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