Neal Lancaster

Returns for third career appearance in the PGA Professional Championship...PGA Life Member who was a self-taught player, learning to play golf on a 9-hole course located in his grandfather's backyard and by looking at pictures in golf magazines...in 1992, he finally took his first lesson from PGA Professional L.B. Floyd, father of Raymond Floyd...Winner, 1989 Utah Open; 1989 Pine Tree Open...received his tour card in 1989...was a full-time member of the PGA Tour between 1990 and 2007...played in 580 events with one win, one runner-up, and 28 top-10s (made 326 cuts and earned $6.3M)...enjoyed his best season in 1994 when he won the PGA Tour's Byron Nelson (the event was shortened to 36 holes and Lancaster got into a six-man playoff when he birdied the last two holes; in sudden death, Lancaster won with a birdie on the first hole)...in the final round of the 1995 U.S. Open, became the first man in the 100-year history of the championship to shoot 29 for nine holes, shot 65 and recorded a fourth-place finish...has played in 33 PGA TOUR Champions events since 2012 (top finish: 5th, 2016 in Dick's Sporting Goods Open). In 2020, finished 79th in the SAS Championship on the PGA Tour Champions Tour. Tied for 50th in the 2017 Constellation Senior Players Championship, and was T-54 in the 2017 U.S. Senior Open.