prowins year birth_date residence usopen nwidewins college name fullname pga birth_place pgawins height award masters open tour weight yearpro article_title
8 1995 1995 23 november 1966 madison , wisconsin t7 : 2007 2 university of hartford jerry kelly jerome patrick kelly t26 : 1999 , 2011 madison , wisconsin 3 5 11 nike the year tour leading money winner nike tour player of t5 : 2007 t7 : 2007 pga tour 165 lb kg st on 1989 jerry kelly

jerry kelly

jerome patrick kelly -lrb- born november 23 , 1966 -rrb- is an american professional golfer .
kelly was born in madison , wisconsin .
he graduated from the university of hartford in 1989 and turned professional later that year , but did n't make it onto the pga tour until 1996 .
this followed a successful 1995 season on the second tier nike tour , when he won two tournaments .
his best career year to date is 2002 , when he finished fourth on the pga tour money list and won the pga tour 's sony open in hawaii and advil western open .
kelly won the 2009 zurich classic of new orleans with a two-foot par on the final hole , beating three players by one stroke -lrb- charlie wi , rory sabbatini , and charles howell iii -rrb- .
it had been seven years since his last win .
kelly has been featured in the top 20 of the official world golf ranking .
kelly was an all-city ice hockey selection in high school while playing for madison east and he has said that his hockey background may have hurt his golf early in his career , because of the aggressiveness it encourages him to bring to his game .
for the first time in his pga tour career , kelly finished outside the valued top 125 on the tour 's money list , ending the 2012 season just $ 1,809 out of a full tour card .
he also finished 2012 as the 25th highest earning pga tour golfer in history .
instead of going to q school -lrb- where his finish would have placed him directly into the final stage -rrb- , kelly played the 2013 season using a career money list exemption , nineteen places higher on the pga tour priority ranking list than the 126-150 category -lrb- priority ranking 29 -rrb- .
