Andrew Putnam
| Andrew Putnam | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Andrew David Putnam |
| Born | January 25, 1989 Tacoma, Washington |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st) |
| Sporting nationality |  United States |
| Career | |
| College | Pepperdine University |
| Turned professional | 2011 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Former tour(s) | Web.com Tour |
| Professional wins | 3 |
| Highest ranking | 43 (August 18, 2019)[1] (as of November 24, 2024) |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 1 |
| Korn Ferry Tour | 2 |
| Best results in major championships | |
| Masters Tournament | CUT: 2020 |
| PGA Championship | T53: 2024 |
| U.S. Open | T31: 2022 |
| The Open Championship | T32: 2019 |
Andrew David Putnam (born January 25, 1989) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.
Early years
[edit]Born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, Putnam graduated high school in 2007 from Life Christian Academy. His older brother Michael has also played on the PGA Tour.
Putnam played college golf in southern California at Pepperdine University in Malibu from 2007 to 2011. He won two tournaments and was a three time All-American.[2]
Career
[edit]2011–2017
[edit]Putnam turned professional in 2011, and he played on the eGolf Professional Tour in 2012.[3] He first played on the Web.com Tour in 2013 and was 49th on the money list, not enough to earn a PGA Tour card. Putnam won for the first time as a professional in April 2014 at the WNB Golf Classic on the Web.com Tour.[4] He made his PGA Tour debut at the Shell Houston Open in 2014, where he played in the same tournament as Michael, but missed the cut. Putnam finished eighth in the Web.com Tour Finals that year to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season.[5]
In the 2014-15 PGA Tour Season Putnam missed the cut in 13 out of 23 events. He finished 192nd in the season-long FedEx Cup and lost his tour card, returning to the Web.com Tour for the 2016 season.[6]
In the 2016 Web.com Tour season he finished 41st on the money list and won $125,981, not enough to earn a PGA Tour card. In the 2017 Web.com Tour Putnam won $266,296 and finished 8th in the regular season. He also won the Panama Claro Championship in February 2017. He regained his PGA Tour card for the 2017-18 PGA Tour Season.[7]
2017–18 PGA Tour season
[edit]Putnam had his first PGA Tour win in August 2018 at the Barracuda Championship, an alternate event near Reno, Nevada. He finished the 2017-18 PGA Tour Season with five Top 10s and earned $2,387,382. He finished 35th in the season-long FedEx Cup.
2018–19 PGA Tour season
[edit]On October 28, 2018, Putnam tied for 4th in the WGC-HSBC Champions tournament in China, earning $393,000.[8]
Amateur wins
[edit]Professional wins (3)
[edit]PGA Tour wins (1)
[edit]| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 5, 2018 | Barracuda Championship | 47 pts (6-17-15-9=47) | 4 points |  Chad Campbell
|
Web.com Tour wins (2)
[edit]| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apr 26, 2014 | WNB Golf Classic | −20 (66-66-64=196)* | 7 strokes |  Richard S. Johnson,  Rod Pampling
|
| 2 | Feb 19, 2017 | Panama Claro Championship | −13 (64-68-67-68=267) | Playoff | Chris Baker
|
*Note: The 2014 WNB Golf Classic was shortened to 54 holes due to strong winds.
Web.com Tour playoff record (1–0)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2017 | Panama Claro Championship | Chris Baker
|
Won with birdie on first extra hole |
Results in major championships
[edit]Results not in chronological order in 2020.
| Tournament | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | |||||||||
| U.S. Open | CUT | ||||||||
| The Open Championship | |||||||||
| PGA Championship | T59 |
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | CUT | |||||
| PGA Championship | T78 | CUT | CUT | T53 | ||
| U.S. Open | T43 | WD | T31 | T43 | ||
| The Open Championship | T32 | NT | T55 |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Results in The Players Championship
[edit]| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Players Championship | CUT | C | CUT | CUT | CUT | 53 |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
C = Canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Results in World Golf Championships
[edit]| Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | ||||||
| Match Play | T40 | NT1 | R16 | |||
| Invitational | T24 | |||||
| Champions | T4 | T36 | NT1 | NT1 | NT1 | |
1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
NT = No tournament
"T" = tied
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022. The Champions was discontinued from 2023.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Week 33 2019 Ending 18 Aug 2019" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Pepperdine Golf: Records Book: 2013–14 Men's Golf" (PDF). pp. 6, 12, 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 30, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
- ^ "Andrew Putnam profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
- ^ "Andrew Putnam wins on Web.com". ESPN. Associated Press. April 27, 2014.
- ^ Andrew Putnam at the PGA Tour official site
- ^ Andrew Putnam at the PGA Tour official site
- ^ Andrew Putnam at the PGA Tour official site
- ^ "2018 WGC-HSBC Championship Winner's Purse and Payout". Golfnewsnet.com. October 28, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Andrew Putnam at the PGA Tour official site
- Andrew Putnam at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
- Pepperdine University Athletics – Andrew Putnam