Professional golfer William Patrick Zalatoris was born in the United States on August 16, 1996. He has mainly played on the PGA Tour, where he achieved one victory at the FedEx St. Jude Tournament in 2022. Also, he has placed second in three important competitions.
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California’s San Francisco is where Zalatoris was born.
In 2014, Zalatoris, who represented Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, won the U.S. Junior Amateur championship. He studied at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and in 2017 he was recognized as the ACC Player of the Year. Zalatoris was recognized as First-Team GCAA and All-ACC in his junior year. All-American, First-Team All-American for Golf Week, Nicklaus Award finalist, Hogan Award semifinalist, participated in all 12 events, and his 70.14 scoring average ranked third best in school history for a season.
He also competed for the United States in the 2017 Walker Cup alongside future PGA Tour champions Collin Morikawa and Cameron Champ. After his junior year, he quit school to pursue his career.
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Zalatoris made his professional debut in 2018 but did not advance past the first stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Q School. Zalatoris relied on Monday qualifying and sponsor exemptions to play in Korn Ferry Tour events in 2019 due to his lack of status. On July 7, he earned membership for the rest of the season after finishing third at the LECOM Health Challenge, and he finished the regular season 60th in points, earning full status for the 2020 season.
Zalatoris’ first professional victory came in July 2020, when he won the TPC Colorado Championship by one stroke. The victory propelled him to the top of the Korn Ferry Tour points list and qualified him for the US Open at Winged Foot. At the US Open, he aced the par-3 seventh hole in the first round, nearly replicating it six holes later, and finished tied for sixth place, at five-over par, alongside world number one Dustin Johnson; it was his first top-10 finish in a major championship. He followed that up with a T8 at the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship, and he earned Special Temporary Member status after the Bermuda Championship in early November.
Will Zalatoris Caddie Change: Did Will Zalatoris change caddies?
Will, who finished second at the 2021 Masters Tournament, revealed that he and his caddie were not on good terms. “We’d kind of had a rough month together,” Zalatoris told the Times-News (via USA Today), “and it was starting to affect our relationship.”
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