Rod Perry

PGA Head Golf Professional at Crane Lakes Golf & Country Club…Playing in his third straight Senior PGA Championship (2024-26)...Finished 8th in the 2025 Senior PGA Professional Championship to earn a spot on the Corebridge Financial Team in the 2026 Senior PGA Championship…Made the cut and finished T-77 in 2024 Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores…Played in seven PGA Championships, with his most-recent entry coming in 2020 at TPC Harding Park…Has played in 17 PGA Professional Championships, including every edition since 2009…Won the 2013 PGA Professional Championship at Sunriver Resort in Sunriver, Oregon, becoming the first left-hander and the first graduate of a PGA Golf Management University program (Mississippi State) to claim the title…Also has five other top-10 finishes at the PGA Professional Championship (T-2 in 2012, T-5 in 2014, T-4 in 2016, 8 in 2017, T-6 in 2019)…Winner, 2013, ’12 National PGA Professional Player of the Year, the first PGA Golf Management graduate to win a national PGA Player of the Year award…Winner, 2021, ’20, ’19, ‘18 North Florida PGA Section Professional Championship…Winner, 2020, ‘18 North Florida PGA Section Match Play Championship…Member of the 2013 and 2017 U.S. PGA Cup Teams…Winner of 13 North Florida PGA Player of the Year awards, including 10 straight from 2009-18…Winner, 2024 North Florida PGA Senior Player of the Year…Six-time North Florida Section PGA Professional Champion...Nine-time North Florida PGA Match Play Champion…Winner, 2024 North Florida PGA Senior Section Championship…Has played in 36 PGA TOUR events, making four cuts…Also played in the 2024 and 2025 U.S. Senior Opens…Was a football placekicker in high school before devoting his athletic career to golf...He is right-handed in everything, but elected to try playing golf left-handed at age 11...He was brought into golf by his late maternal grandfather, Joe Morrison, who introduced him to Slugger White, former PGA Tour vice president of rules and competitions, who helped mentor Perry…Attended the University of North Florida before transferring to Mississippi State University, where he graduated from the PGA Golf Management University Program in 1996…Has also served as a PGA Jr. League coach, and he has begun to share his love of the game with his children…Coached his son, Carson, in the 2023 Drive, Chip and Putt finals at Augusta National in April 2023.