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Pierceson Coody

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Pierceson Coody
Personal information
Born (2000-01-07) January 7, 2000 (age 24)
Plano, Texas, U.S.
Sporting nationality United States
ResidencePlano, Texas, U.S.
Career
CollegeUniversity of Texas
Turned professional2022
Current tour(s)PGA Tour
Former tour(s)Korn Ferry Tour
Professional wins3
Number of wins by tour
Korn Ferry Tour3
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenCUT: 2021
The Open ChampionshipDNP

Pierceson Coody (/ˈku.di/ KOO-dee; born January 7, 2000) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.[1]

Amateur career

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Coody had a successful amateur career before and during college. He won the 2018 Byron Nelson Junior Championship (and was runner up in 2015) and the 2016 Jordan Speith Tournament in high school and was also a State High School regional Champ in 2016.

Coody attended the University of Texas at Austin between 2018 and 2022, majoring in Corporate Communication. Playing with the Texas Longhorns men's golf team, he earned All-American honors in 2020, 2021 and 2022 after being an honorable mention in 2019 and helped the Longhorns win the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship.[2]

As an amateur he won the 2018 South Beach International, the 2019 Trans-Mississippi Amateur, the 2020 Western Amateur, the 2021 George Hannon Collegiate and the 2022 Augusta Haskins Award Invitational. He was the 2021 Big 12 Men's Golf Player of the Year and made the All-Big 12 team, and the All-Big 12 Academic team, in 2021 and 2022. He ascended to the top of the World Amateur Golf Ranking in April 2021.[3]

Professional career

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Coody topped the PGA Tour University rankings and received a spot on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2022. He turned professional in 2022 and won the Live and Work in Maine Open by five strokes in his third start.[4] He went on to win two other Korn Ferry events and place in the top 10 several other times.

In 2023, he secured his PGA Tour card by finishing ranked in the top 30 of the Korn Ferry Tour.[5]

At the 2024 ISCO Championship, Coody led on each of the first three days of golf but finished the 4th day in a 5 way tie for first. During sudden death play, two other players were eliminated, but Coody and Matt NeSmith lost to Harry Hall when Hall sunk a 45 foot chip from off the green to win.[6]

Personal life

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Pierceson has a twin brother, Parker, who is 37 minutes older. Both are third-generation professional golfers, as their father Kyle played collegiately at the University of Texas and on the Asian Tour and Nike Tour in the 1990s, and their grandfather Charles played on the PGA Tour and won three times, including the 1971 Masters Tournament.[7]

Amateur wins

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  • 2016 Under Armour-Jordan Spieth Championship
  • 2018 Thunderbird International Junior, Byron Nelson Junior Championship, South Beach International Amateur
  • 2019 Trans-Mississippi Amateur
  • 2020 Western Amateur
  • 2021 George Hannon Collegiate
  • 2022 Augusta Haskins Award Invite

Source:[3]

Professional wins (3)

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Korn Ferry Tour wins (3)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 Jun 26, 2022 Live and Work in Maine Open −15 (69-62-67-66=264) 5 strokes United States Jacob Bergeron
2 Feb 5, 2023 Panama Championship −11 (72-68-71-66=277) Playoff United States Mac Meissner, United States Sam Saunders
3 Jul 23, 2023 Price Cutter Charity Championship −25 (63-68-65-67=263) 2 strokes United States Parker Coody, United States Chandler Phillips,
Canada Ben Silverman, United States Thomas Walsh

Korn Ferry Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2023 Panama Championship United States Mac Meissner, United States Sam Saunders Won with birdie on first extra hole

Playoff record

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PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2024 ISCO Championship United States Zac Blair, England Harry Hall,
Philippines Rico Hoey, United States Matthew NeSmith
Hall won with birdie on third extra hole
Blair and Hoey eliminated by par on first hole

Results in major championships

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Tournament 2021
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship
PGA Championship
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

U.S. national team appearances

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Amateur

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Pierceson Coody – Profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  2. ^ "Men's Golf Roster: Pierceson Coody". University of Texas. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Pierceson Coody". WAGR. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  4. ^ Herrington, Ryan (June 2, 2022). "A grateful Pierceson Coody earns top honors in final PGA Tour University ranking of 2021–22 season". Golf Digest. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  5. ^ "Pierceson Coody secures PGA TOUR card for 2024". Retrieved July 15, 2024.
  6. ^ "Harry Hall chips in for birdie from 45 feet on the 3rd playoff hole to win the ISCO Championship". July 15, 2024. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
  7. ^ Kerr-Dineen, Luke (February 23, 2023). "Who is Pierceson Coody? Get used to the new name near the top of the leaderboard". Golf Digest. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
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