BEN CRANE

'Ben Crane'

'Personal Information'
'Birth'	Portland, Oregon, USA
'Height'	5 ft 10 in (1.91 m)
'Weight'	165 lb (91 kg)
'Nationality'
'College'	University of Oregon
Career
'Turned Pro'	1999
'Current tour'	PGA Tour
'Professional wins'	4 (PGA Tour: 2, Nationwide Tour: 2)
Best Results in Major Championships
Masters	CUT: 2006, 2007
U.S. Open	62nd: 2006
British Open	T11: 2006
PGA Championship	T9: 2004

'Ben Crane' (born March 6, 1976) is an American golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

Contents

Early life

Professional wins (4)

PGA Tour (2)

Nationwide Tour (2)

Results in major championships

External links

Early life

Crane was born in Portland, Oregon. He was age 5 when his grandfather taught him how to play golf, and he grew up playing at the nearby Portland Golf Club where Ben Hogan won the 1945 Portland Open. He attended Beaverton High School and went on to attend a Christian College in Texas. He later graduated from the University of Oregon and turned professional in 1999. Crane won an event on the second tier Nationwide Tour in both 2000 and 2001. He won a PGA Tour card for 2002, and the following season won for the first time on the PGA Tour at the BellSouth Classic. He also had a win in 2005. In February 2006, just before he turned thirty, he was the highest ranked American golfer under that age in the Official World Golf Rankings.
He has said how he doesn't like to know whom he will be paired with, saying, "I looked up to a lot of these guys who I'm now playing with. So, I didn't want to have to go to sleep thinking about it."
He is also considered one of the slowest players in the tour. On at least 2 occasions his extremely slow progress through a course has become a media issue, including one in which a fellow tour player Rory Sabbatini was cited for unsportsmanlike conduct for playing out of turn, which led to a week-long diatribe by TV commentator/former player Paul Azinger.
Ben is a devoted Christian and lives with his wife, Heather, and their baby girl in Colorado.

Professional wins (4)

PGA Tour (2)

★ 2003 BellSouth Classic

★ 2005 U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee

Nationwide Tour (2)

★ 2000 BUY.COM Wichita Open

★ 2001 Gila River Classic at Wild Horse Pass Development

Results in major championships

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT
U.S. Open	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	62	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	T11	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	T48	T9	T40	CUT	DNP

DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" = tied

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

External links

★ Profile on the PGA Tour's official site

★ Results in ranking events for the last two years from the Official World Golf Ranking site