Rod Perry

2012 and ’13 National PGA Professional Player of the Year is scheduled for his seventh career PGA Championship start, second in as many years, aty TPC Harding Park...2013 PGA Professional Champion, won at Sunriver Resort in Sunriver, Ore., becoming the first left-hander and the first graduate of a PGA Golf Management University program (Mississippi State) to claim the title...was the fourth North Florida Section PGA Member to win the National Championship...Winner, 2018 and ‘19 North Florida PGA Section Professional Championship; 2018 North Florida PGA Section Match Play Championship; 2017 TaylorMade Golf National Championship; 2015 & '07 PGA Stroke Play Championship; 2010 Florida Open...Made the cut at the 2013 Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill (finished 76th)...Also made the cut in the 2008 Ginn Sur Mer Championship and the 2009 Disney Children’s Miracle Network Classic...Member of the 2013 and 2015 U.S. PGA Cup Team...Since 2003, has won 12 North Florida PGA Player of the Year awards, including 10 straight from 2009-18...Five-time North Florida Section PGA Professional Champion...Eight-time North Florida PGA Match Play Champion...2010 North Florida PGA East Central Chapter Teacher of the Year...Introduced to golf by his late maternal grandfather, Joe Morrison...Was a football place-kicker in high school before devoting his athletic career to golf...Is right-handed in everything, elected to try playing golf left-handed at age 11...Joe Morrison introduced his grandson to Slugger White, current PGA Tour vice president of rules and competitions, who helped mentor Perry and his grandfather passed away in 1986, never witnessing the rapid climb that his grandson would make in attending the University of North Florida, then transferred to Mississippi State University, and graduated from the PGA Golf Management University Program in 1996.