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Ryan David Moore (born December 5, 1982) is an American
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, currently playing on the
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. He had a highly successful amateur career, winning the NCAA Individual Championship, the
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, and the
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in 2004. Since turning professional in 2005 he has won five titles on the
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as of the 2016 season and earned
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inside the top thirty in the world.


Amateur career

Moore was born in
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, and grew up in nearby Puyallup. He graduated in 2001 from Cascade Christian High School, a small Class 1A school which did not then have a golf team. Moore competed for Class 4A Puyallup High School, where he lettered all four years (1998–2001). He was the runner-up in the U.S. Junior Amateur in 2000, and won the high school individual state championship in 2001 over
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, a future
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teammate, then of Capital High School of Olympia. Moore accepted a scholarship to UNLV, where he lettered for four seasons for the
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and graduated in 2005 with a degree in communications and public relations. During 2004 prior to his senior year of college, Moore had one of the most impressive seasons in the modern era of amateur golf. He captured multiple titles, including the
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, the
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, the
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(also won in 2002) and the NCAA individual championship. In 2005 he was given the Ben Hogan Award as the top college player. Moore is one of only five golfers in history to win both the NCAA Individual Championship and the
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in the same year (2004) along with
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, and
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. Moore won the
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in 2005 as the outstanding collegiate golfer in the
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. He placed 13th at the 2005 Masters, winning low amateur and a spot in the
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field. This is still the lowest amateur score in Masters history. (In 2003, he also made the cut at the Masters, finishing 45th at age 20.) Moore's final tournament as an amateur was the 2005 U.S. Open at Pinehurst #2; where he made the cut and finished tied for 57th.


Professional career


2005

Moore then turned professional and played the next tournament, at Westchester Classic, on a sponsor's exemption, where he finished in a tie for 51st. Turning professional meant that he had to forfeit his slot (as reigning
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champion) in the 2005 Open Championship, played at the home of golf,
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. In August, Moore earned a special temporary exemption to the
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with a tie for second at the 2005 Canadian Open in
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. In 2005, Moore played on sponsors' exemptions and earned a total of $686,250 in just 14 official
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events. This placed him the equivalent of 113th on the money list, making him the first player since
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in 1996 to go from college to the PGA Tour in the same season without going to Q School. The only other players to do that since 1980 were Gary Hallberg,
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, and
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. As a non-member, Moore needed to collect more than the 125th-place finisher on the 2005 money list in order to earn his card for the 2006 season. During 2005, Moore's world ranking improved from 718 to 142.


2006–2008

In 2006, Moore played on the
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as a regular member, and his best outing was a tie for second at the Buick Championship in
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. He was sidelined for two months in the spring following surgery on his left wrist, which kept him from competing in the 2006 Masters. He returned to the tour in late May and finished 81st on the 2006 money list with $1,222,118. With a top ten finish (tied for ninth) at the 2006 PGA Championship at Medinah on August 20, he broke into the top 100 in the world rankings for the first time, vaulting from 110th to 79th. He climbed as high as 68th in early September, and finished the year at 79th in the world. In 2007, Moore finished solo second place at the
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, hosted by
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in early June. He entered the event as an alternate and earned $648,000, the largest paycheck of his young pro career. With six holes to play, he birdied five consecutive holes (13-17), but scored a par on the 72nd hole to finish one stroke back. Following this runner-up finish, his third as a professional, he climbed from 87th to 33rd on the PGA Tour money list, and his world ranking improved from 110th to 59th. Two days later, he qualified to play in the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont near
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, Pennsylvania, where he shot 8-over in the first round and 3-over in the second and missed the cut by one stroke. He finished the year with $1,544,901 in winnings, ranking him 59th on the PGA Tour money list and 51st in the FedEx Cup standings. Moore finished the year at 74th in the world rankings. Moore reached the first playoff of his career in the 2008 EDS Byron Nelson Championship, which he lost to Adam Scott on the third playoff hole. Moore began the day three shots behind Scott in a four-way tie for second place, but took the lead as Scott dropped three strokes on the front nine. The lead changed hands multiple times before Scott forced the playoff with a birdie on the 72nd hole. On the third playoff hole, Scott beat Moore with a 48-foot birdie putt; Moore then missed his tying birdie putt from the fringe. Moore picked up his largest check of his career, winning $691,200 for second place. It was his fourth runner-up finish on the PGA Tour in as many seasons. Moore continued to have pain in his surgically repaired wrist and took time off at different points in the 2008 season because of a sore shoulder and to improve his fitness, particularly in preparation for the
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. He ended the year with $1,214,900 in winnings, ranking him 88th on the PGA Tour money list and 87th in the FedEx Cup standings; his world ranking fell to 158.


2009

Moore's inconsistent golf continued in the first half of 2009. In his first 16 tournaments, Moore missed the cut eight times, including four times by a single stroke. In March and April, Moore made four consecutive cuts, with two top-20 finishes. In May, Moore only managed one made cut in
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, where he struggled on the weekend to a 71st-place finish, last among those making the cut. After missing the cut at the
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, Moore qualified for the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black with a tie for seventh place at sectional qualifying in
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. He made a strong showing, finishing in a tie for tenth place at 2-over par 282. As a result, his world golf ranking rebounded from 193rd to 152nd. On August 23, Moore won his first career PGA Tour event at the
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, defeating Kevin Stadler and Jason Bohn in a sudden-death playoff, earning $936,000. He finished the 2009 season at 31st on the PGA Tour money list ($2,222,871), 22nd in the FedEx Cup standings, and 51st in the world rankings.


2010–2012

Moore had a steady year in 2010, with six top-10 finishes, including a second-place finish at the
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. He finished 32nd on the PGA Tour's money list with $2,374,823, 35th in the FedEx Cup Standings, and 45th in the world rankings. He appeared in all four of the golf majors for the first time. Moore also shot the course record of 61 at Tacoma Golf and Country Club. In October 2012, Moore won for the second time on the PGA Tour at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, part of the 2012 PGA Tour Fall Series. He converted a share of the 54-hole lead into a victory, one stroke ahead of runner-up Brendon De Jonge. Moore finished 2012 at 26th on the PGA Tour's money list with $2,858,944, 64th in the FedEx Cup Standings, and 40th in the world rankings.


2013–present

Moore had a down year in 2013, with only three top-10 finishes. For the season he finished 61st on the PGA Tour's money list. The PGA Tour instituted a wrap-around season for its 2014 season extending from October 2013 to September 2014, incorporating the prior Fall Series events and a few international events into the subsequent season's schedule. Moore opened the Malaysian
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(held in October 2013) with a 63, and went on to win the tournament in a playoff with
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. This was Moore's only victory in the 2014 season, in which he had seven top-10s and finished 21st on the PGA Tour's money list. In November 2014 (part of the
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season), Moore won the Malaysian
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once again. Moore contended for the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral in March, but fell back over the weekend and finished in a tie for ninth place. The following week at the Valspar Championship, Moore led after three rounds but faltered on Sunday to finish two strokes back in fifth place. Moore had the one victory in the 2015 season, with four top-10s, and finished 32nd in FedEx Cup points.


Equipment

Early in his professional career, Moore had sponsorships with PING and Oakley. When he won his first PGA Tour event at the
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in August 2009, he did not have any endorsement contracts other than with
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to use their golf ball. Following the 2009 PGA season, Moore signed a deal with Scratch Golf in which he would not only use their equipment, but also become part owner of the company. However, in November 2010, it was announced that Moore had signed a deal with Adams Golf and would give up his stake in Scratch Golf. He signed with TaylorMade for the 2013 season. He began playing Parsons Extreme Golf equipment in 2015.


Amateur wins

*2002
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*2004
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,
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,
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, NCAA Division I Championship, Sahalee Players Championship


Professional wins (5)


PGA Tour wins (5)

1Co-sanctioned by the
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PGA Tour playoff record (2–3)


Results in major championships

LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied


Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 4 (four times) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)


Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
C = Canceled after the first round due to the
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Results in World Golf Championships

''Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.'' QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied


PGA Tour career summary

''* As of the 2020 season.''


U.S. national team appearances

Amateur *
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References


External links

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Profile on UNLV's official athletic site
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