Grayson Murray

Earliest golf memory was meeting Arnold Palmer when he was 9. Competed in the U.S. Junior in 2009, 2010, and 2011, made match play but lost in the first round every year. Qualified for the 2009 U.S. Amateur at just 15 years old, and recorded a hole-in-one at the event. Was the youngest player in the U.S. to qualify for the 2009 U.S. Open. Won the Callaway Junior World Championships in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Won the 2010 and 2012 REX Hospital Open Junior Invitational, earning him a spot on the Web.Com Tour's REX Hospital Open. In 2010, shot a second round score of 66 to become the second-youngest competitor to make the cut in a Nationwide Tour Event (16 years, 7 months, 20 days). When he's not golfing he likes to go fishing.
After turning professional in 2015 played on the eGolf Tour and collected his first professional victory, at the Imperial Headwear Southern Open in Kannapolis, N.C., outside his hometown of Raleigh, N.C., in what was just his third start on that circuit. At the end of the year went to Web.Com Tour Q-School and finished T-74th, which got him on that circuit for 2016.
2016 Web.com Summary: Tournaments Entered - 17; In Money - 10; Top-10 Finishes - 8; Scoring Average - 68.62 (Rank 1st); Money - $159,963 (Rank 18th); Finals Money - $248,000 (1st); Priority Rank (2nd); Best Finish win Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship. Was 2nd in the final priority-ranking (behind three-time winner Wesley Bryan) after claiming the Web.com Finals money title with $248,000, earning an exemption into The Players Championship in 2017, as well as fully exempt status on the PGA Tour. As a conditional he got lucky getting into the Rex Hospital Open on a sponsor's exemption and then finishing in the top-ten which got him into the next event, when he got another top-ten. By doing that got exempt for the rest of the year and had a career year, thus getting a ticket for the PGA Tour in 2017.
2017 Notes: In his second event finished T-8th at the Sanderson Farms Championship. He struggled a bit after that until he won the Barbasol Championship which now opens up a lot of doors like being exempt next year and now getting invited to big events like the PGA Championship.