LOREN ROBERTS

'Loren Lloyd Roberts' (born June 24 1955) is an American professional golfer. He was born in San Luis Obispo, California. He competed for San Luis Obispo Senior High School and Cal Poly. In 1975 he turned professional after his sophomore season due to the university dropping its NCAA Division II golf team.
He worked as an assistant pro at San Luis Obispo Golf and Country Club as well as Morro Bay Golf Course. He won the Foot-Joy PGA Assistant Professional Championship of 1979 and was second in 1980. The first professional tour where he competed was the PGA Tour of Australasia where he played briefly after his 1979 PGA victory.

Contents

PGA Tour career

Champions Tour career

Other achievements

PGA Tour wins (8)

Champions Tour wins (6)

Other professional wins (4)

PGA Tour major results

Champions Tour major results

See also

External links

PGA Tour career

On his fifth attempt, he earned his first PGA Tour card at the PGA Tour Qualification Tournament in 1980 for the 1981 season. He returned to the tournament in 1981, 1982, 1986 and 1987, earning his card every year except 1981. He did not get his first win on the PGA Tour until 1994 at age 38, yet it sparked a nine-season run of eight victories. His career earnings are over $15 million. He is known as "Boss of the Moss" for his putting skills. He has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
His best finish in a major was at the 1994 U.S. Open. He contended in an 18-hole playoff with Ernie Els and Colin Montgomerie. Montgomerie was eliminated. An additional pair of sudden-death holes gave Els the title.
He played for the United States in the 1995 Ryder Cup, 1994 and 2000 Presidents Cups, and 2001 UBS Warburg Cup. He was 3-1 at the Ryder Cup and 4-2-1 at the Presidents Cups. Of the four team events, only the Ryder Cup team lost. He was a co-assistant captain for the 2006 Ryder Cup which also lost.
After concentrating on the Champions Tour in 2006, Roberts lost his card. He did not use his 2007 season exemption option for being among the top 50 in career earnings.

Champions Tour career

In 2005 he joined the Champions Tour. His first senior win came in his third event at the JELD-WEN Tradition which is one of the five senior majors. He defeated Dana Quigley in a two-hole sudden-death playoff.
In 2006 he became the first golfer to open a Champions Tour season with three wins.[1]. Later that season he won his second senior major by beating Eduardo Romero in a playoff at the Senior British Open. He won the Byron Nelson Award for having the lowest average stroke total per round.
He broke 54-hole tournament Champions Tour records for lowest score in relationship to par (25-under) and most birdies (26) as well as sharing lowest score (191). The marks were set largely due to scoring a career-best 61 in the final round of his 2006 MasterCard Championship at Hualalai win.

Other achievements

He hosts the annual Loren Roberts Celebrity Pro-Am in May at Spring Creek Ranch in Collierville, Tennessee which began in 1995. The benefitting charity is Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center of Memphis, Tennessee.
He entered the Tennessee Hall of Fame in 1995. He was inducted into the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.[2] The Tennessee Golf Foundation inducted him into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame in 2006.[3]
Roberts co-wrote '''Focus: The Name of the Game''' with fellow PGA Tour golfers Scott Simpson and Larry Mize. The 128-page book was published by J. Countryman in 1999.

PGA Tour wins (8)

★ 1994 (1) Nestle Invitational

★ 1995 (1) Nestle Invitational

★ 1996 (2) MCI Classic, Greater Milwaukee Open

★ 1997 (1) CVS Charity Classic

★ 1999 (1) GTE Byron Nelson Classic

★ 2000 (1) Greater Milwaukee Open

★ 2002 (1) Valero Texas Open

Champions Tour wins (6)

★ 2005 (1) 'JELD-WEN Tradition'

★ 2006 (4) MasterCard Championship at Hualalai, Turtle Bay Championship, The ACE Group Classic, 'Senior British Open'

★ 2007 (1) The Boeing Championship at Sandestin
Senior majors are shown in 'bold'.

Other professional wins (4)

★ 1979 Foot-Joy PGA Assistant Professional Championship

★ 1997 Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational

★ 1999 Tennessee Open

★ N/A (Mexico tournament)

PGA Tour major results

Tournament	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	T34	DNP	CUT	DNP	CUT
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	T34

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Masters	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	T5	T24	T23	CUT	DNP	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	T49	DNP	T11	T2	WD	T40	T13	T18	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T24	CUT	T18	CUT	T29	DNP
PGA Championship	T5	T27	DNP	T28	T9	T58	CUT	T49	T65	CUT

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
The Masters	T3	T37	DNP	T33	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	T8	T52	DNP	T42	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T7	T13	T28	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
PGA Championship	T58	CUT	T43	T7	T17	CUT	DNP	DNP

DNP = did not play

WD = withdrew

T = tied

Yellow background for top ten

'Summary of major championship performances'

Starts	Wins	2nd	Top 3	Top 5	Top 10	Longest Top 10 Streak
48	0	1	2	4	8	3

Champions Tour major results

Champions tour major results are not listed in chronological order.

Tournament	2005	2006	2007
Senior PGA Championship	NM	5	T12
U.S. Senior Open	T2	T8	3
Senior British Open	5	'1'	T4
The Tradition	'1'	T14	T4
Senior Players Championship	DNP	T3

NM = not a Champions Tour member

DNP = did not play

T = tied

green background for wins

yellow background for top ten

'Summary of major championship performances'

Starts	Wins	2nd	Top 3	Top 5	Top 10	Longest top 10 streak
12	2	1	5	9	10	7

See also

★ Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

★ Golfers with most Champions Tour major championship wins

External links

★ Profile on the PGA Tour's official site

★ Tournament press conferences

★ PGA Tour career statistics