Keith Mitchell
Height: 6'1" (1.85 m)
Weight: 185 (84 kg)
Age: 29 (January 07, 1992)
Birthplace: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Residence: St. Simons Island, Georgia
Family:
Single
Education:
University of Georgia (2014, Business and Real Estate)
Special Interests:
Fly fishing for bonefish at Blackfly Lodge in the Bahamas; finding the best restaurants at every PGA TOUR stop, including Galatoire's in New Orleans.
Turned Professional:
2014
City plays from:
Sea Island, GA, United States
Exempt Status
PGA TOURTournament winner (thru 2021-22)
Career Victories
PGA TOUR Victories (1):
2019 (1) The Honda Classic.Player Statistics
Career Low Round:
62 - 2021 Sony Open in Hawaii (Round 2)Career High FedExCup Rank:
#12 : 2019 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MastercardCareer High Official World Golf Rank:
#55 : 2019 PGA ChampionshipCareer Largest Paycheck:
$1,224,000 : 2019 The Honda Classic (Finished 1)Career Records
| PGA TOUR (Playoff Record: 0 - 0) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Events | Rounds | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10 | Top 25 | Cuts Made | Cuts Missed | WD | FedExCup Rank | Earnings | |
| Total: | 105 | 332 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 23 | 66 | 39 | $6,743,748 | |||
| 2021 | 28 | 84 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 65 | $1,665,249 | ||||
| 2020 | 21 | 64 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 112 | $886,979 | |||||
| 2019 | 26 | 83 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 50 | $2,405,360 | ||||
| 2018 | 29 | 97 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 8 | 67 | $1,641,260 | |||
| 2017 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | $144,900 | ||||||||
| (A) - Amateur | |||||||||||||
Top Tournaments |
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| PGA TOUR | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE PLAYERS Championship | Masters Tournament | PGA Championship | U.S. Open | The Open Championship | WGC-HSBC Champions | WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play | WGC-FedEx St. Jude Inv | WGC-Workday Championship at The Concession | |
| 2021 | CUT | CUT | |||||||
| 2020 | CNL | T43 | |||||||
| 2019 | T47 | T43 | CUT | CUT | CUT | T40 | 39 | ||
| 2018 | T77 | ||||||||
| FedExCup Playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FedEx St. Jude Championship | Dell Technologies Championship | BMW Championship | TOUR Championship | |
| 2021 | T8 | T57 | ||
| 2020 | T61 | |||
| 2019 | T64 | T52 | ||
| 2018 | CUT | 20 | T45 | |
Personal
- Graduated from the University of Georgia in 2014 with a degree in Business and Real Estate. Earned All-America honors in 2012.
- Attended The Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Fellow graduates of the school include Harris English, Stephan Jaeger and Luke List, as well as Brooke Pancake, who joined the LPGA in 2013.
- Very proud of his career path to the PGA TOUR and the work required to achieve his goals. Played on PGA TOUR Latinoamerica in 2015, collecting five top-10s, and played on the Korn Ferry Tour before earning his TOUR card for the 2017-18 season.
- Father, Jerry, is a doctor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a member at The Honors Course. Mother, Cynthia, plans girls trips to his tournaments with her best friends, who have all known him his entire life. The members of the group, who call themselves the "Auntorage," travel to tournaments every few months and wear matching hats. Sister, Brindley, attended the University of St. Andrews in Scotland from 2009 to 2013.
- Met his caddie, Pete Persolja, while Pete was a caddie at The Honors Course. Growing up, hired Persolja for club events and U.S. Amateur qualifiers before reconnecting with him full-time in 2016. Persolja, known as "Crunchy Pete," is well-known around TOUR for his quirkiness and positive attitude.
- Bought a 1977 Jeep Cherokee Chief and has been gradually restoring it while at home in St. Simons Island, with the help of fellow TOUR professional Michael Thompson.
- Knows Peyton Manning and first met him at age 4. Partnered with Manning and Andy Roddick, among others, on Sweetens Cove, an award-winning nine-hole public golf course outside of his hometown of Chattanooga.