Stephan Patrick Jäger ( ; born 30 May 1989), also spelled as Stephan Jaeger, is a German

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who plays on the

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. He has won six tournaments on the second tier

Korn Ferry Tour The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. Th ...

in the United States.

Amateur career

Jäger played collegiate golf at

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. He turned professional in 2012.

Professional career

Jäger qualified for the 2015 U.S. Open where he shot 74–80 to miss the cut. At the 2016

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, Jäger shot a 12-under par 58 in the first round and followed it up with rounds of 65-64-63 to claim his first

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victory. He set the 72-hole aggregate record with his 250 and tied the to-par record, at 30 under par, and won by 7 strokes over

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. He also set the 36-hole and 54-hole records. Despite the win, Jäger finished 28th on the regular season money list, three spots short of a guaranteed PGA Tour card. In

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, Jäger won twice on the Web.com Tour, finishing fifth on the regular-season money list and earning a PGA Tour card for the 2017–18 season. In May 2018, ranked 161st in the FedEx Cup and having failed to qualify for

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, Jäger played in and won the Web.com Tour's

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, his fourth victory on that tour. After failing to finish in either the top 125 of the FedEx Cup or the Web.com Tour's top 25, Jäger regained his PGA Tour card through the Web.com Tour Finals. Back on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2020, Jäger picked up his fifth title on the tour at the

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. The win helped gain him exemption into the 2020 U.S. Open as one of the leading points scorers in the final three Championship Series events, and into four alternate events on the PGA Tour in 2021 by virtue of being in the top ten of the tour standings after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship. He won the Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year award for the 2020–21 season. During the current 2021–22 PGA Tour season, Jäger has finished in the top 10 twice: T6 at the

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, and solo 5th at the

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Professional wins (6)

Korn Ferry Tour wins (6)

''*Note: The 2017 BMW Charity Pro-Am was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.'' Korn Ferry Tour playoff record (1–1)

Results in major championships

''Results not in chronological order in 2020.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied for place
NT = No tournament due to

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Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Germany): 2006 * European Amateur Team Championship (representing Germany):

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Professional * World Cup (representing Germany):

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References

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* * German male golfers PGA Tour golfers Korn Ferry Tour graduates University of Tennessee at Chattanooga alumni Sportspeople from Munich 1989 births Living people {{Germany-golf-bio-stub