Sonny Skinner
- PGA Championship Appearances
- 4
- Age
- 60
- Turned Pro
- 1982
- Hometown
- Sylvester, Ga.
- College
- Abraham Baldwin College/Shorter College
- Height
- 5 ft 9 in
- Weight
- 169 lbs
Corebridge Financial PGA Team
Bio
Fourth career PGA Championship start will be first since 2013…emerged from a five players-for-four spots playoff at the PGA Professional Championship in April …Owns the most (6) PGA Professional/Senior PGA Professional Player of the Year Awards, with five Senior POY honors (2010-14) and the 2008 PGA Professional Player of the Year Award…Joined by Bob Sowards as the only PGA Professionals to capture both division player awards…Winner, Georgia PGA Section’s 2020 Heritage Senior Classic; 2019 Kinderlou Forest Senior Classic; 2018 Southeast Senior Classic; 2017 Georgia PGA Section Senior Professional Championship; 2017 Georgia PGA Section Senior Tour Championship; 2015 and ‘16 Yamaha Atlanta Open; 2010 PGA Match Play Championship; 2006 PGA Winter Tournament Series; 2006 Georgia PGA Match Play Championship; 2000 Griffin Classic Championship…While dealing with after-effects of a February 2014 automobile accident, went on to win a record 5th Senior PGA Professional Player of the Year Award in 2014 (accident left him with injuries to his lower back and left knee)…Earned Low Club Professional honors at the 2011 Senior PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville (finished T-45)…Is unbeaten (5-0-3) in the PGA Cup (went 4-0-0 as a member of the 2009 U.S. PGA Cup Team that defeated Great Britain & Ireland in Loch Lomond, Scotland; and finished 1-0-3 for the winning 2011 U.S. PGA Cup Team at CordeValle in San Martin, Calif.)…Played on the PGA Tour in 1990, ‘92, ‘97, and ‘98…In 120 career events, made 47 cuts and finished in the top 25 seven times...best finish: T-13 in the 1997 Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic...Earned a total of $226,981 that year…Competed in 304 Korn Ferry Tour events from 1990 through 2013, accumulating earnings of $609,207…Made 147 cuts, was a two-time winner (Shreveport Open, Richmond Open) and finished in the top 10 on 22 occasions…His finest year was 1994, when he finished 11th on the circuit’s money list…Played in 34 Champions Tour events and had one top 25 (T-20 in the 2010 SAS Championship)…Was named the 2006 Georgia PGA Player of the Year and also inducted into the Shorter College Sports Hall of Fame…Played golf at Abraham Baldwin College in Tifton, Ga…Counts among his close friends the 1999 Senior PGA Champion and two-time U.S. Senior Open champion, Allen Doyle, for whom he caddied at the 2007 U.S. Senior Open at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin…Presented with the 1990 Goodwill Ambassador Award by the City of Sylvester, Ga. Chamber of Commerce for going above and beyond to promote the city…Was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 2018.
Stats
Previous Performances
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | OUT | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | IN | TOT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
R1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 44 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 41 | 85 |
R2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 39 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 39 | 78 |