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Broce Earns Second Trip to PGA Championship
June 22, 2017 | Men's Golf
1999 alumnus finished top 5 at this week’s PGA Professional Championship
Ball State alumnus Jamie Broce is headed back to the PGA Championship. The 1999 graduate finished tied for fifth at this week's PGA Professional Championship to earn a spot in the season's final major for the second time in four years.
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Broce was in contention deep into the final nine holes Wednesday and finished 1 under par for his four rounds at Sunriver Resort in Oregon, three shots behind tournament winner Omar Uresti. The top 20 finishers in the field of more than 300 club pros earned a spot in the PGA Championship in August at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Broce played in the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky, after a runner-up finish at the PGA Professional Championship. He missed the cut by just three shots after playing the first two rounds alongside that year's eventual FedEx Cup champion Billy Horschel.
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The Indianapolis native is one of seven former Cardinals to appear in a major since 1970, along with Denny Hepler (9 appearances), Brian Tennyson (9), Cary Hungate (6), Scott Steger (4), Jeff Gallagher (1) and Patrick Wilkes-Krier (1). Wilkes-Krier qualified for last year's U.S. Open at Oakmont.
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A Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame member, Broce was the Ben Hogan Award winner as the nation's top golf scholar-athlete in 1998, the program's final season under former head coach Earl Yestingsmeier. In 1999, he was an All-American, the Mid-American Conference Golfer of the Year and an NCAA Regional participant in the first year under head coach Mike Fleck.
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Broce won six tournaments during his college career and still holds the school record with a 73.57 career stroke average. He went on to play professionally through 2008, spending time on the Nationwide Tour (now Web.com Tour) and NGA Hooters Tour before entering the coaching profession.
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Broce was in contention deep into the final nine holes Wednesday and finished 1 under par for his four rounds at Sunriver Resort in Oregon, three shots behind tournament winner Omar Uresti. The top 20 finishers in the field of more than 300 club pros earned a spot in the PGA Championship in August at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Broce played in the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky, after a runner-up finish at the PGA Professional Championship. He missed the cut by just three shots after playing the first two rounds alongside that year's eventual FedEx Cup champion Billy Horschel.
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The Indianapolis native is one of seven former Cardinals to appear in a major since 1970, along with Denny Hepler (9 appearances), Brian Tennyson (9), Cary Hungate (6), Scott Steger (4), Jeff Gallagher (1) and Patrick Wilkes-Krier (1). Wilkes-Krier qualified for last year's U.S. Open at Oakmont.
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A Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame member, Broce was the Ben Hogan Award winner as the nation's top golf scholar-athlete in 1998, the program's final season under former head coach Earl Yestingsmeier. In 1999, he was an All-American, the Mid-American Conference Golfer of the Year and an NCAA Regional participant in the first year under head coach Mike Fleck.
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Broce won six tournaments during his college career and still holds the school record with a 73.57 career stroke average. He went on to play professionally through 2008, spending time on the Nationwide Tour (now Web.com Tour) and NGA Hooters Tour before entering the coaching profession.
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