Omar Uresti

Returns to the PGA Championship for the fifth time, first since 2018, after winning his second career PGA Professional Championship by three shots at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida on April 28, 2021…Also captured the 2017 PGA Professional Championship by defeating Dave McNabb in a two-hole playoff at Crosswater Club in Sunriver, Oregon (became the second Southern Texas PGA Member to win the title, following Tim Thelen/2000, ‘03)...2020 Senior PGA Professional of the Year (his first player of the year citation from the PGA of America)…Won eight times in 2020 (four in his home Southern Texas PGA Section, four at his home away from home at PGA Golf Club)…made the cut in the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow (finished T-73rd), the first PGA Club Professional to make the cut since Brian Gaffney of Darien, Connecticut, in 2015…Winner, 2020 Senior PGA Professional Championship; 2020 PGA Tournament Series Events No. 1 and No. 2; 2019 PGA Senior Stroke Play Championship; 2017 and ‘15 Southern Texas PGA Section Professional Championship; 2014 Nike Golf Tradition Championship…Competed in the 2015 and ‘17 PGA Cup…Winner, 2020 Southern Texas PGA Section Senior PGA Professional Championship; 2014 Southern Texas PGA Section Tradition Championship; 2015 Southern Texas PGA Section Championship; 2014 Southern Texas PGA Section Pro-Pro Match Play Championship…Competed in six U.S. Opens, finishing T-45 in 1995; T-101 in 1996 and T-75 in 2005; missing cuts in 1988, ‘99 and 2004…Competed on the PGA Tour 1995 to 2000 and again from 2004 to 2010 (played a total of 377 events on the PGA Tour, making 183 cuts and finishing in the top-10 on 14 occasions)...best Tour finish was T-3rd in the 1997 Bay Hill Invitational and 2006 Byron Nelson Classic…Earned $3.8M playing those years…Also played on what is now called the Korn Ferry Tour off and on between 1993 and 2012…Played in 210 Korn Ferry Tour events and made the cut 129 times…Had 24 top-ten finishes and won twice, including the 1994 Shreveport Open (set a professional record of 9 consecutive birdies in a professional tournament) and the 2007 Livermore Valley Open…Was an All-American selection in 1989 and 1990 at the University of Texas.