Monte Scheinblum (born May 15, 1967) is an American
professional golfer, and the son of former
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
All Star outfielder
Richie Scheinblum
Richard Alan Scheinblum (November 5, 1942 – May 10, 2021), nicknamed "Shane", Whiting, Robert. ''You Gotta Have Wa'' (Vintage Departures, 1989), pp. 82-83. was an American professional Major League Baseball (MLB) player.
In 1971, he won the A ...
. While he competed on the Nike Tour, he became known especially for his
long driving, where success is achieved by a golfer hitting a golf ball the farthest. In 1992 he won the National Long Driving Championship in the United States, and was the world long driving champion.
Early life
Scheinblum, who is Jewish, is the son of former Major League Baseball All Star outfielder
Richie Scheinblum
Richard Alan Scheinblum (November 5, 1942 – May 10, 2021), nicknamed "Shane", Whiting, Robert. ''You Gotta Have Wa'' (Vintage Departures, 1989), pp. 82-83. was an American professional Major League Baseball (MLB) player.
In 1971, he won the A ...
.
His father played in the 1972 All Star Game while he was with the
Kansas City Royals.
As a child, he spent two years of his boyhood in Japan, where his father played baseball for the
Hiroshima Carp
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. He then lived in
Orange County, California
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, where he attended
Villa Park High School
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. Scheinblum turned to professional golf after an injury to his pitching elbow in his freshman year of being a power pitcher in high school ended his dream of playing major league baseball as his father had.
Golf
A 6' 2", 235-pound athlete, Scheinblum is an accomplished golfer. Between 1993 and 1996 he competed on the second tier
Nike Tour
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(now Korn Ferry Tour), where his best finish was a tie for fifth in the 1994
Monterrey Open
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.
He also played in one
PGA Tour
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event, the 1996
Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, missing the
cut
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** A type of wound
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.
Scheinblum has had his greatest success in long drive competitions. In 1991, he was the runner-up in the U.S. National Long Driving Championship with a drive of 319 yards.
The following year, in
Boca Raton, Florida, he won the event with a drive of 329 yards, 13 inches, into a 20 mile-per-hour wind.
Mike Gorton, the 1987 champion, took second with a drive of 307 yards, 22 inches.
[ That year he was also the world long driving champion.]
See also
* List of Jewish golfers
References
External links
Monte Scheinblum website
*
"Scheinblum Thinks Nike Players are Above Par"
'' Philadelphia Daily News'', June 12, 1995
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American male golfers
UCLA Bruins men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
American long drive golfers
Jewish golfers
Golfers from Portland, Oregon
Golfers from California
Jewish American sportspeople
Sportspeople from Orange County, California
Sportspeople from Riverside County, California
1967 births
Living people
21st-century American Jews