Professional golf is one of the hardest fields to be successful in on the planet.
Firstly, golf is just a ridiculously hard game to master.
And secondly, once you do reach the highest level on the PGA Tour, there are 150 guys competing every week trying to beat you (Signature Events aside).
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While players like Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and Adam Scott have been at the top of the game for two decades and more, some players taste PGA Tour success before vanishing into oblivion.
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One player knows that more than anyone else.
While winning on the PGA Tour is hard, achieving sustained success is even harder.
Matt Every had more DQ’s than wins on the PGA Tour before retiring at 39
It’s fair to say that Matt Every has one of the most bizarre PGA Tour careers in the game.
Every was clearly a hugely talented golfer on his day.
However, he’s now working as an on-course commentator despite being just 42 years old.
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Every won two PGA Tour titles during his career. Incredibly, both of those victories came at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in back-to-back years in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
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Bay Hill is one of the most difficult golf courses on the PGA Tour schedule, so Every clearly had the full package when he was at his best.
However, after his second win at Arnie’s Place, he never tasted victory again.
Matt Every’s PGA Tour record
Every played 279 PGA Tour events throughout his career, before retiring from playing at the highest level in 2023.
He had two wins, as mentioned above, but he was disqualified three times as well.
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He only made 119 cuts and recorded just 10 top-5 finishes, including three top-3s.
Matt Every has 21 top-10s to his name as well as 39 top-25 finishes.
Basically, it was very rare for Every to even contend in tournaments when he wasn’t winning.
Despite his lack of impressive results overall, nobody will ever be able to take his two PGA Tour victories away from him.
Every wrote his name into the history books with his back-to-back wins at Bay Hill, and there are a lot of professional golfers out there who would snap your hand off for a career like his.
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