Great Golfers: Peter Jacobson
Peter Jacobson was born on the 4th of March, 1954. The place of his birth is Portland, Oregon. He began playing golf at the University of Oregon. Namely here he began to manifest good inclinations of a golf player. As an amateur he won the Oregon Open in 1976. Namely this year signifies the beginning of his brilliant career as a golf star.
During his first few seasons he kept to a definite line of progress. In 1980 Jacobsen got his first title at the Buick-Goodwrench Open. In 1984 he gained the victory twice and thus he broke into the top 10. In 11 years, that means in 1995 he was proud to finish tournaments with two more victories.
Being 49 years old Peter Jacobsen took part in the Greater Hartford Open. And this fact did not prevent him from becoming the best player of PGA. Jacobsen went also down in the history of the world golf as one of the oldest players who have ever won on the PGA Tour. At that time he was also voted as the tour’s comeback player of the year.
Since turning fifty, Peter Jacobson did not give up his career as a professional golfer. He continued to participate in major championships of senior golf. In 2004 Jacobsen won U.S. Senior Open. This championship is one of the most prestigious and major tours. In 2005 during the Senior Players Championships he added a second major title.
Jacobsen is known not only as a professional golf player. Many people know him as a person that possesses a good sense of humour. He is also a skilled master of doing impressions of the other professional sportsmen. Craig Stadler was one of such persons. Jacobson with the humour so characteristic of him gave numerous commentaries concerning the player’s shot, whether it was good or bad. His commentaries are available in various versions of Golden Tee Golf.
But at this point the talents of legendary Peter Jacobsen do not run out. It appears that Jacobsen can play guitar. Being a self-taught guitarist he became the founder and then the lead singer of Jake Trout & The Flounders. He founded this band in the middle of 1980s.
Being a golf star Peter Jacobson showed the world how many talents can be combined in a single person.