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Lee Janzen

Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. This game does not have any fixed standard playing area, but an ideal measurement can be decided as per the availability of space and number of players involved. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for atleast five centuries in the British Isles. Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is now becoming an increasingly popular sport across all sections of society. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play.

Lee MacLeod Janzen was born on August 28, 1964 in Austin, Minnesota. His height is six foot and weight is 175 pounds. In 1992 he had his first Tour victory, which was at Northern Telecom Open. He won 1986 Division II National Championship at Florida Southern. In 1994 he won Buick Classic by three strokes over Els, and won U.S. Open the following week. In 1995 he won three times The Players Championship, Kemper Open and Sprint International Trailed Bernhard Langer and Corey Pavin by one entering final round at Sawgrass. In 1997 he posted seven top-10 finishes, including two seconds, and earned a fourth trip to The Tour Championship.

In 2004 he finished inside the top 100 on the PGA, the Professional Golfers Association, Tour money list for the 14^th straight time in his 15 year career, posting three top-10s. In 2003 he managed to exceed the 1 million dollars mark for the fourth time in his career with 1,132,001 dollars. At the BellSouth Classic, he held the 54 hole lead by one stroke over Bob Tway.

Lee Janzen with all his dedication and devotion in his play achieved many goals in his overall career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by just giving some extra hard work and efforts. He never lost hope in himself and always fought hard to achieve his goal. He is still remembered as one of the best player in the history of golf.

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