Darrell Kestner

PGA Classification: A-4
PGA Section: Metropolitan
PGA Membership: 1985

Facility: Deepdale Golf Club, Manhasset, N.Y.

Notes: He is making his 28th career appearance in the PGA Professional Championship...2017 PGA Golf Professional of the Year...He played in the 2012 PGA Championship at The Ocean Course in Kiawah Island and, in doing so, became the first PGA Club Professional since World War II to compete in a major in five different decades...Overall, he has competed in 19 majors... Winner, 1996 PGA Professional Championship (switched to a cross-handed putting grip in the middle of the first round, then made a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th green in the final round to close the victory, winning 72-hole total of 271 remains a Championship record)...Also won the 1982 and '87 FootJoy Assistant PGA Professional Championship...In 1993, at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, he became the first player in PGA Championship history to record a double eagle...2004, '05 Senior PGA Professional of the Year...Three-time Met PGA Section Player of the Year (1994, 1995, and 2003)...Other career victories: five Met PGA titles, three Met Open Championships, two New York State Opens, the 1994 Dodge Open, three Long Island PGAs, two Westchester PGAs, and two Long Island Opens... Listed by Golf Digest as one of America's Top 50 Teachers.