Steven Fox (born January 14, 1991) is an American
professional golfer who won the 2012
U.S. Amateur
The United States Amateur Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Amateur, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for amateur golfers. It is organized by the United States Golf Association and is currently held each August ov ...
.
Fox was born in
Greenville, South Carolina.
He attended
Hendersonville High School in
Hendersonville, Tennessee
Hendersonville is the largest city in Sumner County, Tennessee, on Old Hickory Lake. The population was 61,753 at the 2020 census.
Hendersonville is the fourth-largest city in the Nashville metropolitan area after Nashville, Murfreesboro, ...
and the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UT-Chattanooga, UTC, or Chattanooga) is a public university in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1886 and is one of four universities and two other affiliated institutions in the ...
.
[ Fox won the 2012 U.S. Amateur at ]Cherry Hills Country Club
Cherry Hills Country Club is a private country club in the western United States, located in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, a suburb south of Denver.
Founded in 1922 and designed by William Flynn, the club features a championship 18-hole golf ...
on the 37th hole after being down two with two holes to play. Fox was the 63rd player to qualify for match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 h ...
. He had to survive a 17-man playoff for 14 spots in stroke play to qualify for the match play of the U.S. Amateur.[ With the win, Fox qualified for the 2013 Masters Tournament, 2013 U.S. Open, and ]2013 Open Championship
The 2013 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 142nd Open Championship, held from 18–21 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Phil Mickelson shot a final round 66 (−5) to win his fifth ma ...
where he missed the cut at all three events.
Fox won the Tennessee State Amateur in August 2013.
Fox turned professional in September 2013.
He played on the Web.com Tour in 2016 after earning his tour card through qualifying school
In professional golf, the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the ...
and playing on that tour in 2014.
Professional wins
*2014 Tennessee Open
The Tennessee Open is the Tennessee state open golf tournament, open to both amateur and professional golfers. It is organized by the Tennessee Golf Association. It has been played annually since 1949 at a variety of courses around the state.
Winn ...
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
U.S. national team appearances
Amateur
*Eisenhower Trophy
The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958, it is named after Dwight D. Eise ...
: 2012
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(winners)
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American male golfers
Golfers from South Carolina
Golfers from Nashville, Tennessee
Sportspeople from Greenville, South Carolina
People from Hendersonville, Tennessee
1991 births
Living people