Brett Wetterich

When Brett was 2, his father, Mickey, put a golf club in his hand, and he just wouldn't let go of it. Played junior golf and got a scholarship to play at Wallace State in Alabama. After he finished school, he turned pro in 1994 and went directly to the Gold Coast Tour. Tried three times to get through PGA Qualifying school but always failed by a stroke or two to reach the final stage. In 1999, he broke that string, making it to the finals, and parred the last hole to get his tour card on the number.

Wetterich was a PGA Tour rookie in 2000, but a wrist injury truncated his season, and he spent the next few seasons playing mainly on the Korn Ferry Tour, where he won in 2003 and 2004. He returned to the PGA Tour in 2005 and in 2006, he won the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. This win helped him secure a place in the 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup team by finishing tenth on the points list. He became the first (and only) player to go from Q-School to make the Ryder Cup team the following year. He also finished tenth on the 2006 year-end PGA Tour money list with earnings of $3,023,185.

Wetterich led the 2007 Masters Tournament at the mid-way point but collapsed on Saturday, shooting an 83, the highest score posted by any weekend leader in the storied tournament's history. He finished the tournament in 37th place.

Shoulder injuries cut Wetterich's 2008 season short, kept him off the course in 2009, and cost him significant Tour status in 2010 after he failed to satisfy his medical exemption. He finished 156th on the money list and was demoted to the Past Champions category, among the lowest priority rankings on Tour. He won his third event on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2011, but finished 29th on the money list, four places short of a PGA Tour card. Wetterich has not played a full PGA Tour season since 2010.

Wetterich has been featured in the top 25 of the Official World Golf Ranking, reaching a career-high of 21st in 2007. In his career on the PGA Tour, he played in 172 events, making 88 cuts with 14 top ten finishes. He was runner-up four times at the 2006 Memorial, Chrysler Championship, 2007 WGC-Ca Championship, and Deutsche Bank Championship. He won the 2006 Byron Nelson. In his career, he earned over $7 million. His last start was missing the cut at the 2018 Barbasol Championship. He also played on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2003 and '04, and again from 2011 through 2013. He has made 117 Korn Ferry starts, making 61 cuts with 14 top ten finishes, including three wins. His career earnings is $735,695.

Unfortunately, he injured his wrist in his rookie year in 2000, had wrist surgery in January 2001, and spent most of his career rehabbing the injury.

In 2024, he made his first start on the Champions Tour at the Kitchenaid Senior PGA Championship, missing the cut there and at the Senior Open Championship. In October of 2024 was named on the athlete Advisory Board of Unified Pros, a nonprofit alliance of professional athletes.

2025 Notes: Missed the cut at the Senior PGA Championship and T-70th in the Stifel Charity Classic.