Vaughn Taylor
Personal information
Full name	Vaughn Joseph Taylor
Born	(1976-03-09)March 9, 1976 (age 49) Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	160 lb (73 kg; 11 st)
Sporting nationality	United States
Residence	Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
Spouse	Leot Taylor, divorced
Children	1
Career
College	Augusta State University
Turned professional	1999
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Former tour(s)	Web.com Tour NGA Hooters Tour
Professional wins	8
Highestranking	37 (April 15, 2007)[1]
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	3
Korn Ferry Tour	1
Other	4
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	T10:2007
PGA Championship	T28: 2005
U.S. Open	CUT: 1998, 2007
The Open Championship	T66: 2006

Vaughn Joseph Taylor (born March 9, 1976) is an Americanprofessional golfer who has played on thePGA Tour andWeb.com Tour.

Born inRoanoke, Virginia, Taylor was raised inAugusta, Georgia, from infancy. After attendingHephzibah High School,^[2] he played golf forAugusta State University where he was an honorable mentionAll-American his senior season. He continues to reside in the Augusta area with his wife, Leot.

Taylor turned professional in 1999. He played his early years on the Hooters and Nationwide Tours, getting valuable experience before playing his first full year with a PGA Tour card in 2004. He won four times on theNGA Hooters Tour, and once on theNationwide Tour at theKnoxville Open. Taylor has three victories to his name on thePGA Tour; his first two victories coming in consecutive years at theReno-Tahoe Open, an alternate event, in2004 and2005. His victory in 2004 was one of five wins by rookies that year and came after holing an 11-foot birdie on the first extra hole during a four-man sudden-death playoff. He had also previously had to sink a 14-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation play to make it into the playoff. In 2005, he led the event wire-to-wire and held a six-stroke advantage entering the final round, to claim a comfortable victory by three strokes fromJonathan Kaye.

After a year that included a career high six top-10s, Taylor qualified to play on the U.S.Ryder Cup team for the first time in2006. He earned a half point for his team with a record of 0–1–1.

Taylor's highestworld ranking was 37th in 2007 and career high in theFedEx Cup placing was 35th in 2010.

Taylor started the 2015–16 season playing on both the PGA Tour andWeb.com Tour, having only past champion status on the PGA Tour after finishing 151st in the FedEx Cup, just a fraction of a point from conditional status. He made two starts on the PGA Tour before making two starts on the Web.com Tour, where he missed the cut in Panama and withdrew due to illness in Colombia. In February2016, Taylor won theAT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, his first PGA Tour win since August 2005.^[3] He started the week as first alternate, only earning entry afterCarl Pettersson withdrew, and had not been fully exempt since2012. The win was also Taylor's first at a non-alternate event and moved him from 447th in the world to 100th.^[4]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Aug 22,2004	Reno–Tahoe Open	−10 (67-67-69-75=278)	Playoff	Stephen Allan,Hunter Mahan, Scott McCarron
2	Aug 21,2005	Reno–Tahoe Open (2)	−21 (64-67-64-72=267)	3 strokes	Jonathan Kaye
3	Feb 14,2016	AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am	−17 (70-68-67-65=270)	1 stroke	Phil Mickelson

PGA Tour playoff record (1–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2004	Reno–Tahoe Open	Stephen Allan,Hunter Mahan, Scott McCarron	Won with birdie on first extra hole
2	2009	Turning Stone Resort Championship	Matt Kuchar	Lost to par on sixth extra hole
3	2010	Shell Houston Open	Anthony Kim	Lost to par on first extra hole

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	Jun 29,2003	Knoxville Open	−20 (68-69-67-64=268)	Playoff	Joe Ogilvie

Nationwide Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2003	Knoxville Open	Joe Ogilvie	Won with birdie on first extra hole

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Aug 8, 1999	Hooters Classic (Echo Farms)	−16 (68-66-66-72=272)	2 strokes	Jason Buha,John Kimbell
2	Feb 18, 2001	NGA Meadow Brook Golf Classic	−21 (63-69-64-63=259)	6 strokes	Greg Gregory,Zoran Zorkic
3	Apr 8, 2001	Triad Classic	−22 (66-65-65-66=262)	1 stroke	Eric Epperson
4	Mar 16, 2003	Southern Hills Classic	−28 (67-68-62-63=260)	6 strokes	Joe Meade

CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

• Most consecutive cuts made – 1 (four times, current)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 1

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
C = Canceled after the first round due to theCOVID-19 pandemic

Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.

"T" = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

• Ryder Cup:2006

• 2003 Nationwide Tour graduates
• 2011 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates

• Vaughn Taylor at thePGA Tour official site
• Vaughn Taylor at theOfficial World Golf Ranking official site

• American male golfers
• PGA Tour golfers
• Ryder Cup competitors for the United States
• Korn Ferry Tour graduates
• Golfers from Virginia
• Golfers from Augusta, Georgia
• Augusta Jaguars men's golfers
• Sportspeople from Roanoke, Virginia
• People from Hephzibah, Georgia
• 1976 births
• Living people

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