Tiburón Golf Club at
The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples | | DEC. 9 - 13, 2009 | | Day | Schedule & Format | | Wed | Day One Pro-Am (Shamble) | | Thu | Day Two Pro-Am (Best-Ball) | | Fri | First-Round (Modified Alt. Shot) | | Sat | Second-Round (Better Ball) | | Sun | Final-Round (Scramble) | | »more info |
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| Jeff Sluman |
 | Full Name: Jeff Sluman | | Height: 5-7 | | Weight: 140 | | Birthdate: September 11, 1957 | | Birthplace: Rochester, NY | | Turned Professional: 1980 |
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| Statistics (through 2008) |
| PGA TOUR Victories | | (6) 1988 PGA Championship. 1997 Tucson Chrysler Classic. 1998 Greater Milwaukee Open. 1999 Sony Open in Hawaii. 2001 B.C. Open. 2002 Greater Milwaukee Open.
Champions Tour Victories |
| Champions Tour Victories | | (2) 2008 Bank of America Championship, Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach.
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| Other Victories | | (4): 1999 CVS Charity Classic [with Stuart Appleby]. 2003 CVS Charity Classic [with Rocco Mediate], Merrill Lynch Shootout [with Hank Kuehne]. 2004 Merrill Lynch Shootout [with Hank Kuehne].
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| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Position | | $1,519,676 (5) |
| Current Year Highlights | | Won his first Champions Tour title in dramatic fashion in June when he defeated Loren Roberts by two strokes at the Bank of America Championship near Boston. Final-round 64 at Nashawtuc matched his low round on the Champions Tour. Birdied three of the final four holes on his way
to the win in his 18th start on the Champions Tour. After trading birdies early in the round with Roberts, he took the lead for good with a 13-foot birdie at No. 15. Increased his lead to two strokes with a 30-foot birdie at No. 17 and then closed the door with a 34-footer for a final birdie at No. 18 on his way to an 8-under-par 64, matching the lowest final round in tournament history. Did not make a bogey in his weekend rounds and played his final 43 holes without a bogey...Followed his win in Boston with a second title, at the Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. Five-stroke victory over Fuzzy Zoeller and Craig Stadler on the Monterey Peninsula was the largest in tournament history and gave him multiple titles in a season for the first time in his TOUR career. Win also came 16 years after his playoff loss to Mark O'Meara at the 1992 AT&T Pebbble Beach National Pro-Am and runner-up finish to Tom Kite at the 1992 U.S. Open at Pebble. Started the final round in a four-way tie for the lead but birdied four of his first eight holes Sunday to take command. Clutch par saves at No. 9 and No. 11 provided added distance from Fred Funk, his closest pursuer at the time...Finished T2 with teammate Stadler in the Legends Division at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf in April. The pair closed with an 11-under 61 but fell one stroke shy of the team of Andy North and Tom Watson...Was third at the Regions Charity Classic near Birmingham. Made a late charge up the leaderboard in the final round and eventually finished two strokes back of Andy Bean. Final-round 64 was the low round of the tournament and a career best on the Champions Tour. Score included a 7-under 29 on the front nine, matching the event's nine-hole record...Made a final-round run at the Commerce Bank Championship before eventually finishing T4. Bogeyed the final hole to fall out of contention but still shot 5-under 66 Sunday at Eisenhower Park...Trailed Bernhard Langer by just one stroke after 54 holes of the Senior PGA Championship but carded an 8-over 78 in the final round before hometown fans in Rochester, NY, to T9 at Oak Hill. |
| Career Highlights | | 2007: Played in five Champions Tour events after turning 50 in early September and was among the top 20 in four of those tournaments...Debuted on the circuit at the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn and finished T15...Best effort was a T12 at the Administaff Small Business Classic near
Houston, where he was among the early contenders after shooting 66 in the opening round...During the fall, was again a Captain's Assistant to Jack Nicklaus on the winning United States team at The Presidents Cup matches at Royal Montreal in Canada. |
| Personal | | Has been a Chicago Bulls season ticketholder since 1996...Loves Formula One auto racing...Big fan of the Florida State Seminoles, Chicago Bears and Chicago Cubs...Serious wine collector, owns about 2,000 bottles, dating to 1957...Co-owner, with Dudley Hart, of Lakeshore GC in Rochester, NY, a course he played regularly growing up...Good
friend of 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal...After disqualifying himself at 1996 Bay Hill Invitational, refused to take undue credit for act, quoting Bobby Jones: "It would be like congratulating someone for not robbing a bank."...Teamed up with office supply retailer OfficeMax to create The Jeff Sluman & OfficeMax "Drive for Hope"-a charity fund that is poised to raise $450,000 to $750,000 for the City of Hope and other charities...Started in the game at age 4 but didn't think about turning pro until after his senior year of college. |
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