Skip Kendall
Quick Facts
Biography
Jules Ira "Skip" Kendall (born September 9, 1964) is an American professional golfer. He plays on the Champions Tour and formerly played on the Web.com Tour and the PGA Tour.
Biography
Kendall was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is Jewish.
In 1987 Kendall became a professional golfer and won the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament in 1992. Kendall has never won a PGA Tour event or a Champions Tour event. But, he did have a handful of top-10 finishes. His best finishes would be finishing 2nd place at the 2004 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic the 1998 Buick Invitational, the 2000 Southern Farm Bureau Classic, and the 1999 Canon Greater Hartford Open.
Kendall had some success on both the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour throughout the 1990s and early 2000s including finishing T10 at the 1999 Players Championship. Kendall finished 70th in the 1999 World Golf Ranking with thirteen top-25 finishes out of 24 cuts earning $962,642 and earned $1,206,438 in 2004 with seven top-25 finishes. He has four Nationwide Tour victories. Since 2014, Kendall has played on the Champions Tour and has had three top-10 finishes.
In 2015, Kendall missed the cut for the Puerto Rico Open and the Barbasol Championship scoring 78 in both events on the first round and ended up getting 9-over-par in both tournaments. He did however finish 2015 being ranked 69th on the 2015 Champions Tour money list and finished T10 at the 2015 Shaw Charity Classic.
Kendall is credited with introducing Chris DiMarco to the "claw" putting grip.
Professional wins (7)
Nationwide Tour wins (4)
- 1994 Nike Inland Empire Open, Nike Carolina Classic
- 2007 Chitimacha Louisiana Open
- 2012 Pacific Rubiales Colombia Championship
Other wins (3)
- 1988 Wisconsin State Open
- 1989 Wisconsin State Open
- 1992 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament (tie with Masahiro Kuramoto, Perry Moss, Brett Ogle, and Neale Smith)
Results in major championships
Tournament | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
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Masters Tournament | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | 56 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP |
U.S. Open | CUT | DNP | DNP | DNP | T82 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | CUT | DNP | DNP | T17 | DNP | T56 |
The Open Championship | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | T59 | T11 | DNP | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | T10 | T21 | T27 | T63 | CUT | CUT | 73 | DNP | DNP |
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10