Nick Taylor | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Full name | Nicholas Alexander Taylor | ||||
Born | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | April 14, 1988||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||
Sporting nationality | Canada | ||||
Spouse | Andie | ||||
Career | |||||
College | University of Washington | ||||
Turned professional | 2010 | ||||
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour | ||||
Former tour(s) | Web.com Tour Gateway Tour | ||||
Professional wins | 5 | ||||
Highest ranking | 24 (March 17, 2024)[1] (as of October 27, 2024) | ||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||
PGA Tour | 4 | ||||
Other | 1 | ||||
Best results in major championships | |||||
Masters Tournament | T29: 2020 | ||||
PGA Championship | T68: 2015 | ||||
U.S. Open | T36: 2009 | ||||
The Open Championship | CUT: 2023, 2024 | ||||
Achievements and awards | |||||
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Nicholas Alexander Taylor (born April 14, 1988) is a Canadian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. After turning professional in 2010, Taylor has won on the PGA Tour four times, including becoming the first Canadian to win the Canadian Open since 1954, which he did in 2023 at the Oakdale Golf & Country Club.
Taylor had strong junior, collegiate, and amateur careers, winning the 2007 Canadian Amateur Championship at the age of 19, the top 8 of the 2007 U.S. Amateur, and finishing as a runner-up in the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship. He was a two-time All American and Pac-10 Golfer of the Year for the University of Washington Huskies. As an amateur in the 2009 U.S. Open, Taylor carded the lowest amateur round in U.S. Open history with a second round 65, finishing tied for 36th with the honour of the low amateur of the major. He was awarded the 2009 Mark H. McCormack Medal as the leading player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, and the 2010 Ben Hogan Award as the best college golf player in the United States.
Taylor played on PGA Tour Canada from 2011 to 2013, and on the Web.com Tour before graduating to the PGA Tour in 2014. In his inaugural PGA Tour season he won the 2014 Sanderson Farms Championship, and picked up his second win in the 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.