Rod Perry

PGA Head Golf Professional at Crane Lakes Golf & Country Club…Competing in his first KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship…Recently played in his 16th PGA Professional Championship, including every edition since 2009…Won the 2013 PGA Professional Championship at Sunriver Resort in Sunriver, Oregon, becoming the first left-hander and the first graduate of a PGA Golf Management University program (Mississippi State) to claim the title...Also has five other top-10 finishes at the PGA Professional Championship (T-2 in 2012, T-5 in 2014, T-4 in 2016, 8 in 2017, T-6 in 2019)...Played in seven PGA Championships, with his most-recent entry coming in 2020 at TPC Harding Park...Winner, 2013, '12 National PGA Professional Player of the Year...Winner, 2021, '20, '19, '18 North Florida PGA Section Professional Championship; 2020, '18 North Florida PGA Section Match Play Championship...Member of the 2013 and 2015 U.S. PGA Cup Teams...Winner of 13 North Florida PGA Player of the Year awards, including 10 straight from 2009-18...Six-time North Florida Section PGA Professional Champion...Nine-time North Florida PGA Match Play Champion…Was a football placekicker in high school before devoting his athletic career to golf...He is right-handed in everything, but elected to try playing golf left-handed at age 11...He was brought into golf by his late maternal grandfather, Joe Morrison, who introduced him to Slugger White, former PGA Tour vice president of rules and competitions, who helped mentor Perry...Attended the University of North Florida before transferring to Mississippi State University, where he graduated from the PGA Golf Management University Program in 1996...Has also served as a PGA Jr. League captain, and he has begun to share his love of the game with his children...Coached his son, Carson, in the 2023 Drive, Chip and Putt finals at Augusta National in April 2023.