| Max Greyserman | |
| Full Name: | Max Alexander Greyserman |
| Birth Date: | 31 May 1995 |
| Birth Place: | Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in |
| Weight: | 180 lb |
| Residence: | Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, U.S. |
| Spouse: | Alyssa |
| College: | Duke University |
| Yearpro: | 2017 |
| Tour: | PGA Tour |
| Extour: | Korn Ferry Tour |
| Prowins: | 1 |
Max Alexander Greyserman (born May 31, 1995) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.[1] [2] He played college golf at Duke University, and played on the Korn Ferry Tour for four seasons.
Greyserman was born in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, to Alex and Elaine Greyserman. He is Jewish, and Russian was his first language.[3] [4] [1] Both of his parents arrived in the U.S. as teenagers as refugees from Kyiv in the Soviet Union in what is now modern-day Ukraine; they met when they were students at Rutgers University.[5] [2] His father is a hedge fund manager and an adjunct math professor at Columbia University.[2] [1] His mother played tennis on scholarship at Rutgers University from 1990 to 1992.[2] [6] She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009, and competed in the first U.S. Adaptive Open at Pinehurst in 2022 in the neurological impairment division, caddied by his father.[6] He has an older sister, Jacquie, who played college tennis at Emory University, and two younger brothers who both play golf, Dean and Reed (who won the 123rd New Jersey Amateur Championship in 2024, making him and Max--who won it in 2015--the first brothers to win the tournament in history).[6] [1] [7] [8] [9]
Greyserman played varsity golf at Pine Crest School in South Florida as a seventh grader; he attended the school from grades five to eight.[7] [1] [2] Greyserman then attended the Peddie School in New Jersey for high school, and led its team to three state championships.[1]
Greyserman lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with his wife, Alyssa, whom he met in college and who played college tennis.[2] [5]
Greyserman first broke par at PGA National's Fazio course (then known as the Haig) at age 9, shooting a 71.[5] [7]
He won the 2012 Golf Pride Junior Classic, shooting 68-69-67, and was a 2012 American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Rolex Junior Second Teams All-American.[1] [2] In 2012, Greyserman recorded top-10 finishes at the Lessings AJGA Classic, the PING Invitational, the Puerto Rico Junior Open, and the New Jersey Amateur.[1]
Greyserman won the 2013 New Jersey Junior Championship, was a finalist at 2013 St. Andrews Boys Open, was a member of the 2013 Wyndham Cup East Team, and was a semifinalist at the 2013 North and South Amateur.[1]
Greyserman played four season for Duke University, where he studied public policy and economics.[7] In 2013–14, he posted a 74.9 stroke average, and shot a 71-71-72=214 (−2) to tie for fourth at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate.[1] In 2014, he also shot a six-under 207 and won the 94th New Jersey State Open.[10] [1] [2] [11]
In 2014–15, Greyserman posted a 75.3 stroke average at Duke.[1] In 2015, he also won the New Jersey Amateur with a three-under 277 (69-74-70-64).[1] [2] [12]
In 2015–16, Greyserman posted a 73.20 stroke average at Duke, and was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Team.[1] He had two top-five finishes.[1]
In 2016–17, Greyserman had a 72.07 stroke average.[1]
In 2017, Greyserman turned professional.[2] In 2018–19, playing on the Korn Ferry Tour, he finished the season at No. 80 on the regular season points list.[2] He recorded two top-10s, including a season-best T7 at the LECOM Suncoast Classic.[2]
In 2020, he finished T6 at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship.[2]
In the 2020–21 season, Greyserman posted six top-10 finishes.[2] In Korn Ferry Tour starts, he finished No. 46 in the regular season points standings.[2] His highest finish of the season was a T4 at 16-under at the 2021 Visit Knoxville Open.[2] He ranked fifth on the Tour in putting average, with 1.718 putts per green in regulation.[2]
In 2022, he suffered a wrist injury, a fractured lunate, necessitating surgery in April 2022.[13] [7] Greyserman considered a different career path, such as real estate.[5]
In 2023, in his fourth season on the Korn Ferry Tour, Greyserman finished No. 9 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, and earned his first PGA Tour card (top-30 from Points List).[2] He posted five top-10s.[2] He had two runner-up finishes, at The Ascendant and the Pinnacle Bank Championship.[2]
In 2023, Greyserman earned his first PGA Tour card.[14] He now golfs on the PGA Tour.[1] [2] Greyserman has four top-10 finishes on the 2024 PGA Tour: T7 at the Texas Children's Houston Open, T4 at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (playing with partner Nico Echavarría), solo 2nd at the 3M Open, where he finished one stroke behind winner Jhonattan Vegas, and 2nd at the Wyndham Championship.[2]
In mid-June 2024, at the 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, Greyserman made the cut in his second start at the major.[15] He finished at 5-over par, 285, in a tie for 21st overall.[15]
In August 2024, he finished second in the Wyndham Championship.[16]
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