Jason Dufner was born in the year 1977 and he is a professional golfer who plays at PGA Tour. He has won four times and one is the major championship for 2013 PGA championship and he was the runner up for 2011 PGA championship while losing the playoff to the Keegan Bradley. He was ranked at 10 with the Official World Golf Ranking in 50 weeks. The best rank he got was when he was ranked sixth in 2012.
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According to his biography, Jason Dufner was born in the city of Cleveland in Ohio and he moved to live in Washington D.C at the age of 11 years old. Afterwards, he moved to go to live Fort Lauderdale in Florida when he was 14. This is where he decided to play golf and he was playing at St Thomas Aquinas High School during the senior years, junior and sophomore.
He was a walk on at Auburn University and he won the game three times during the college career and he was Honorable Mention for All American in the year 1997. During his early career, he struggled to get the place in PGA Tour. He was the member of the PGA Tour of 2004 and it was in Nationwide Tour of 2001, 2002, and 2003.
Dufner won two different games when he was with Nationwide Tour. It was Lasalle Bank Open and buy.com Wichita open. He finished at the 8th Place at the nationwide Tour money list and he got a PGA Tour Card in 2007. He finished at the position of 127th standing during the FedEx Cup of 2007 and he failed in qualifying for PGA Tour Q-school. He then finished at T149. He continued with the retained conditional status of 2008 PGA tour season and there he finished at T11 on the Q-School and it is when he earned the card in 2009. He continued to be a member for PGA tour each year from that day.
In the year 2009, he finished among the top 10 in over six occasions. He finished on the third place on RBC Canadian Open and he was a runner up at Deutche Bank Championship and it was a part for FedEx Cup playoffs. This is when he went ahead and he finished on 11 positions and he was standing at 33rd at the money list. During the year 2010, he was not that successful and he recorded only two wins among the top 10 finishes. The best win of this year was with PGA championship that took place at Whistling Straits.
Jason Dufner got married and his wife Amanda Boyd was his girlfriend for a long period. They met in the year 2009 and it was through their friend. They got divorced in the year 2015. He has laid back mannerism that had been named Dufnering. His career earnings in 2016, was 2.35 million, his net worth is 14 million dollars.
Last Modified: Mar 9, 2020
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