{"id":1551828,"date":"2023-03-01T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1551828"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:14:35","slug":"taylor-montgomery-biography-pga-tour-career-net-worth-family-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/taylor-montgomery-biography-pga-tour-career-net-worth-family-top-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Montgomery: Biography, Career, Net Worth, Family, Top Stories for the PGA Tour Standout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Despite growing up around the game of golf, it took Taylor Montgomery<\/a> some time to truly commit himself to the sport. But once he did, the Nevada native excelled at every level, and he's now one of the fastest-rising golfers<\/a> on the PGA Tour<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A two-time state champion in high school and a one-time winner at the college level, Montgomery struggled a bit early in his professional career but eventually became one of the top players on the Korn Ferry Tour. Despite never winning a tournament at the developmental level, he recorded five runner-up finishes and 14 overall top-10s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now a full-time member of the PGA Tour, Montgomery has put himself in position to win 2022-23 Rookie of the Year honors and figures to be a top contender for years to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But just who is<\/em> Taylor Montgomery? Below, you'll find everything you need to know about this rising star, from his upbringing on one of the most high-profile courses in the country to his wild Korn Ferry Tour heartbreak to his statistics and career earnings \u2014 and everything in between. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first-born child of Mikella and Monte Montgomery, Taylor Montgomery was born on Jan. 30, 1995, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and attended Foothill High School in nearby Henderson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite his father being a former professional golfer and the longtime director of golf at Shadow Creek Golf Course, one of the most high-profile and expensive public courses in the country, Montgomery admits he was “never into golf”<\/a> as a youngster as he was more interested in other sports, such as basketball and football. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Montgomery would often see high-profile athletes from those other sports at Shadow Creek, athletes such as Michael Jordan and Jerome Bettis, and it was seeing how much they enjoyed golf that drew him “towards the game a lot more.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Montgomery lettered in golf all four years at Foothill High and won the 4A boys individual state title as a sophomore in 2011 and again as a senior in 2013. And he found time to enjoy his other interests, as well. He was a starting forward for the basketball team in each of his final two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upon graduating from Foothill High in 2013, Montgomery followed in his father's footsteps and played college golf at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), even playing for the same coach, Dwaine Knight. He also teamed with fellow future PGA Tour player Kurt Kitayama<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a freshman, he appeared in nine tournaments and recorded three top-20s, including a third-place finish at the Jackrabbit Invitational, where he tied a school record for the lowest round ever shot by a freshman with a 65. That was the lowest round of any member of the team that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Montgomery notched his first collegiate victory the following year, winning the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational, one of four top-20 finishes during his sophomore season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite his early success at UNLV, Montgomery played just two tournaments as a junior as he developed issues off the tee and struggled even to keep the ball in play. His father had always encouraged him to essentially swing as hard as he could, and he found himself flipping the clubface at impact. Things got so bad that he often kept his driver in the bag, instead opting to tee off with a long iron. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As golf wasn't going so well, Montgomery nearly attempted to join the UNLV basketball team, which was dealing with several injuries to players and was looking for an athlete to fill out the roster. Montgomery had kept himself in basketball shape, so he strongly considered it but was told by Knight that if he did so, his time on the UNLV golf team would be over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Montgomery opted to stick with golf and began working with Dallas-based instructor Jon Sinclair, who helped him vastly improve his game off the tee. Taylor found himself back in the starting lineup as a senior and was one of the key reasons the Rebels advanced to the team match-play portion of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, where they lost to top-seeded Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Montgomery graduated in 2017 with a degree in communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite turning pro in 2017, Taylor Montgomery didn't make his Korn Ferry Tour (then the Web.com Tour) debut until 2018. It's not that he wasn't playing professional tournaments, but he mainly played mini-tour events at that time. He helped bankroll his career by winning the Major Series of Putting<\/a>, taking both the individual and team titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After playing seven combined events during the 2018 and 2019 seasons, he earned full-time status on the Korn Ferry Tour for the 2020 season, which ended up being two seasons rolled into one due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And the decision to roll 2020 results over into 2021 actually cost Montgomery his PGA Tour card as he would have qualified under normal circumstances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the extended campaign, Montgomery fell one spot short of the top-25 cutoff for both the regular season and the KFT Finals. But in 2022, he left nothing to chance, finally securing his spot on the PGA Tour for the 2022-23 season before the Korn Ferry Tour regular season even ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Montgomery made his Korn Ferry Tour debut in August 2018, tying for 14th at the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae in Hayward, California. One week later, he missed the cut at the WinCo Foods Portland Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Montgomery played four official Korn Ferry Tour events in 2019, missing the cut in three of them. Despite his struggles, he tied for 13th in the KFT Qualifying Tournament, securing his spot on the tour for the following season.<\/p>\n\n\n\nArticle Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Quick Taylor Montgomery facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Where did Taylor Montgomery grow up and play high school golf?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Where did Taylor Montgomery go to college?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Taylor Montgomery Korn Ferry Tour career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Taylor Montgomery 2018 Korn Ferry Tour (Web.com Tour) season<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Tournament<\/strong><\/th> Finishing position<\/strong><\/th> Score to par<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae<\/td> T14<\/td> -13<\/td><\/tr> WinCo Foods Portland Open presented by Kraft-Heinz<\/td> CUT<\/td> +6<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Taylor Montgomery 2019 Korn Ferry Tour season<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Tournament<\/strong><\/th> Finishing position<\/strong><\/th> Score to par<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Chitimacha Louisiana Open presented by MISTRAS<\/td> T52<\/td> -6<\/td><\/tr> Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Championship<\/td> CUT<\/td> +10<\/td><\/tr> KC Golf Classic<\/td> CUT<\/td> +6<\/td><\/tr> Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank<\/td> CUT<\/td> +1<\/td><\/tr> Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament<\/td> T13<\/td> -15<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Taylor Montgomery 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour season<\/h3>\n\n\n\n