James Edward Loar III (born November 15, 1977) is an American

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. Loar was born in

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. He is a left-handed golfer. Loar played college golf at

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(OSU). He won five college tournaments and his team won the NCAA Division I Championship in 2000.PGA Tour Media Guide
/ref> He was a four-time All-American at OSU.2008-09 Oklahoma State Men's Golf Media Guide
/ref> He also won four amateur events outside of college: the Southwest Amateur in 1997, the

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in 1999, and the

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in 1999 and 2000. Loar played on the 1998 Palmer Cup and 1999 Walker Cup teams. Loar turned professional in 2000 after graduating from OSU. He played on the

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from 2002 to 2006 and won twice: the 2003 Thailand Open and the 2004 Kolon Korean Open. He played on the

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in 2007 and 2011, where his best finish was a T-3 at 2007

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. He earned his 2012

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card by finishing T-18 at the 2011 PGA Tour Qualifying School. He won the 2012

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on the

. Loar finished well outside the top 125 on the 2012 money list and tried to regain his Tour privileges through Qualifying School. He was two shots off the lead going into the final round, but double-bogeyed the 17th and bogeyed the 18th for a final round 78, missing a Tour card by two shots with a 32nd-place finish; Loar had full status on the

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for 2013 as a result of his finish. He finished fourth on the 2013 Web.com Tour regular season money list to earn his 2014 PGA Tour card. In 2013–14, he made only 3 cuts in 19 events and finished 233rd on the

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points list and lost his PGA Tour card. Loar married Melaney McDaniel on August 12, 2006 and they have a set of

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born September 5, 2011.

Amateur wins

*1997 Southwestern Amateur *1999

*2000

Professional wins (6)

Asian Tour wins (2)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

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Asian Tour playoff record (1–0)

Web.com Tour wins (2)

Other wins (2)

*2003 Straight Down Fall Classic (with John Pate) *2006 Straight Down Fall Classic (with Don Woodward)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur *

Palmer Cup The Arnold Palmer Cup is an annual team golf competition for college/university golfers. From 2018 it has been contested between a United States team and an International team representing the rest of the world. The teams consist of 12 men and 12 ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

(tie) *

Walker Cup The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years by leading male amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland. The official name is the Walker Cup Match (not "Matches" as in Ryder Cup Matches). It is ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Loar, Edward American male golfers Oklahoma State Cowboys golfers Asian Tour golfers PGA Tour golfers Korn Ferry Tour graduates Golfers from Dallas Left-handed golfers 1977 births Living people