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Matt Kuchar

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Matt Kuchar is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, born on June 21, 1978, in Winter Park, Florida. He has won nine times on the PGA Tour and was its leading money winner in 2010, after rebuilding his game around a new one-plane swing from 2008 onward. His biggest victory is The Players Championship in 2012, and in February 2013 he won his first World Golf Championship event, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, beating Hunter Mahan in the final. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he won the bronze medal, the first Olympic golf medal awarded since 1904. He has not won a major, his closest finish being second place at the 2017 Open Championship, and he played for the United States in the 2010 Ryder Cup.

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is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour
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    born June 21, 1978
  • Lead, major championships
    Kuchar ended the 2025 season as the highest-earning PGA Tour player without a major
  • Lead, nationality
    is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour
  • Competed In: The Open Championship, Professional career
    The closest he has come was his second-place finish in the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club.
  • On The Roster Of: United States Ryder Cup Team, Team appearances
    Kuchar made the Ryder Cup team in 2010, taking the eighth and last merit position on the 12-man U.S. squad on August 15.
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