Brett Quigley is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 professional golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

er.

Quigley was born in Fort Devens, Massachusetts

Fort Devens, Massachusetts

Devens, Massachusetts is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the successor to Fort Devens, a military post that operated from 1917 to 1996. The area...

. He is the nephew of PGA Tour

PGA Tour

The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...

 and Champions Tour

Champions Tour

The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...

 golfer Dana Quigley

Dana Quigley

Dana C. Quigley is an American professional golfer.Quigley was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1969 and turned professional in 1971....

. He won the 1987 U.S. Junior Amateur and attended the University of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House...

, where he was twice an Academic All-American, before turning professional in 1991.

Quigley has spent his career bouncing between the PGA Tour and the second tier Nationwide Tour

Nationwide Tour

The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...

. His best finish on the main tour is second, but he has two wins on the lower tour, the 1996 NIKE Philadelphia Classic, and the 2001 BUY.COM Arkansas Classic. His main strength is his short game. Despite his lack of stature (5-11 and circa 160 pounds), he is also a long driver.

Quigley finished in the top 20 of the PGA Tour money list in 2006. He has played on the PGA Tour exclusively since 2002, and his career earnings exceed $10,000,000.

Nationwide Tour wins (2)

• 1996 NIKE Philadelphia Classic
• 2001
  2001 Buy.com Tour
  The 2001 Buy.com Tour season ran from Mar 8 to October 28. The season consisted of 27 official money golf tournaments, and one canceled tournament. Two tournaments were played outside of the United States...
  
   BUY.COM Arkansas Classic

Results in major championships

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	51	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open U.S. Open (golf) The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...	CUT	CUT	DNP	T28	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT	T60	DNP
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship PGA Championship The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	T37	CUT	CUT	T62	DNP	CUT

DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" = tied

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

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