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Home > Golf > PGA Tour Players > Joe Ogilvie
Joe Ogilvie
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for atleast five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. PGA stands for Professional Golfers' Association Tour.
Norman Joseph Ogilvie was born on April 8, 1974 in Lancaster, Ohio. His height is 5 feet 10 inches and weighs 165 lbs. He swings in a right position. He made his debut in 1996. In 1997 he earned fully exempt status on the Nationwide Tour for the following season in his second attempt at Qualifying School, where he missed the cut in 1996. In 2000 he finished 92nd on the money list with a career high three top-10s, including a T4 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic. In 1999 he earned his first PGA Tour top-10 finish at the Motorola Western Open with a T9. In 2003 he finished the season number 2 on the Nationwide Tour money list and won the inaugural event at the Jacob's Creek Open Championship in Adelaide, Australia, his third win on that circuit.
In 2004 he made more money than he had in his first four years on the PGA Tour combined. He jumped from number 308 at start of year to number 120 in Official World Golf Ranking by season's end. In 2005 season, he finished in the top 50 on the money list for the second consecutive season on the strength of two top-10s and matched his career-best finish with a T2 at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic after sharing the first-round lead and holding the second-, third-, and fourth-round leads.
He is one of the best known golf players in the history of the game. A unique style of game strategy and excellent judgment is what makes this great player one of the best all time golf players. Sheer determination, concentration and self confidence has helped him through out his professional career of playing golf to achieve what other players can only imagine of.
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