• Over $48 Million PGA Tour Career Earnings
• 12 PGA Tour Victories (2004 to 2019)
• 2007 Masters Champion
• 2015 Open Champion at St. Andrews
• 4 President’s Cup Teams – 2007, 2009, 2013 & 2015 (10-6-1 record)
• 5 Ryder Cup Teams – 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, & 2016 (8-7-2 record)
• Captain, 2023 Ryder Cup team
• 2003 – Web.Com Tour Player of the Year (2 wins, a then record $494,882 earnings)
• 2001 – 3 wins on Hooters Tour; Player of the Year and leading money winner
• 2001, 2002 – 2-time Iowa Open Champion
• 2000 – Herman Sani Invitational Champion
• 1999 – 2 wins on Prairie Golf Tour, 3rd leading money winner
• 1997 – 1 win on Prairie Golf Tour, 6th leading money winner

Link to Zach’s comprehensive PGA Tour career profile:

http://www.pgatour.com/content/pgatour/players/player.24024.zach-johnson.html/profile

When Zach Johnson was inducted into the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame in 2016, he was in a class by himself. In more ways than one.

Yes, Johnson was the only inductee that year. And that’s fitting, because he’s the greatest golfer the state of Iowa has ever produced. Johnson took a gamble on himself, and it paid off in the form of two major championships and 12 PGA Tour titles overall. Johnson was never the No. 1 man on his Cedar Rapids Regis or Drake University golf teams. And after graduating from Drake, he considered using his marketing degree to pursue a career. His parents thought that was a good idea. But Zach had gotten better each year, and he didn’t want to play the what-if game. There was a meeting of the minds in the spring of 1998. Zach and his father, David, met at a Cedar Rapids pub called the Irish Democrat. Joining them were pros Larry Gladson of Elmcrest Country Club, who got Zach started at golf as a 10-year-old junior, and Tom McCann, the head pro at the Cedar Rapids Country Club. Gladson and McCann recommended that Johnson pursue a pro career.

Two dozen investors. most of them Elmcrest members, put up $500 sponsorships. And he chased his dream. Zach made a triple bogey on the first hole he played as a profefssional, a Prairie Tour event in Lincoln, Neb. But a few weeks later he won a Prairie Tour event in Bellevue, Neb., pocketed a $3,500 check and continued to march forward. He finished first and second on the Hooters Tour money list in 2001 and 2002. A year later he was the leading money winner on the Nationwide (now Korn Ferry) Tour, won two times and earned PGA Tour status. As a 28-year-old PGA Tour rookie, Johnson won in his ninth start at the BellSouth Classic. Eleven more victories have followed, including the 2007 Masters at Augusta National, where he finished two shots clear of three players including Tiger Woods, and the 2015 Open Championship at the Old Course in St. Andrews, where he beat Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman in a playoff.

Johnson played on five Ryder Cup teams (2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016) and four Presidents Cup (2007, 2009, 2013, 2015) teams. He also became the first Iowan to captain a Ryder Cup team, in 2023.

Off the course, the Zach Johnson Foundation has provided financial support to the Kids on Course program, which, in partnership with the Cedar Rapids Community School District, provides tutoring, enrichment, parent engagement strategies and health suppors to students.

On June 1, 2016, more than 250 Iowa golf patrons gathered on the campus of Drake for Johnson’s Iowa Golf of Fame induction ceremony. “I went against the grain,” Johnson said that night. “I had a dream. I didn’t want to have any regrets and I wanted to see where it would take me.”

His dream took him straight to the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame, a unanimous first-ballot selection by the Hall of Fame committee.

At the induction ceremony, Johnson shared the stage with a panel of friends, Rick Brown (former Des Moines Register sports reporter), Pat Cobb (Chair of Zach Johnson Foundation), Neil Johnson (college teammate at Drake) and Gladson. The three recalled stories about Johnson and his long and sometimes unclear path to becoming one of the PGA Tour’s best players of his era.

“Emotionally, all of us were hopeful he’d make it,” Cobb said. “But intellectually, there were not a lot of us who thought that this kid was going to be on the PGA Tour.”

Although each accounted for a different part of Johnson’s journey, they agreed that Johnson is in fact the greatest golfer that the state of Iowa has produced both on and off the course.

“He’s a humble Iowan that never changed,” Brown said. “You can talk all you want about Zach’s playing ability… but Zach Johnson is a major champion in other areas far more important than this.”

Johnson was extremely grateful and appreciative of joining the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame.

“This is where I’m from,” Johnson said. “I’m a proud Iowan. Every time I get on the tee box, I’m from Cedar Rapids Iowa. It truly is an honor. Every time I play, I’ll play for Iowa.”

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