Parker Coody | |
Birth Date: | 7 January 2000 |
Birth Place: | Plano, Texas, U.S. |
Weight: | 175lb |
Residence: | Plano, Texas, U.S. |
College: | University of Texas |
Yearpro: | 2022 |
Tour: | PGA Tour |
Extour: | Korn Ferry Tour PGA Tour Canada |
Prowins: | 2 |
Parker Coody (; born January 7, 2000) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.[1]
As a high school student, Coody won the 2016 AJGA Abilene/Bob Estes Championship and the 2017 Texas State High School 6A Championship. He also participated in the US Amateur Championship.[2]
Coody attended the University of Texas at Austin between 2018 and 2022, majoring in Corporate Communication. In 2019 he advanced to the Final 16 in the 2019 U.S. Amateur and the next year he won the Southern Highlands Collegiate. In 2021 he made it to the Final 32 of the 2022 U.S. Amateur. Playing with the Texas Longhorns men's golf team, he earned Honorable Mention All-American honors in 2019, 2021 and 2022; and helped the Longhorns win the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship.[3] He lost a playoff for the individual title to Gordon Sargent and, as a result, earned GCAA All-America honors.[4] He made the Big 12 All-Tournament Team and the Academic All-Big 12 team in 2021 and 2022.
Coody turned professional in 2022 and joined the PGA Tour Canada where he won the CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open by 8 strokes.[5]
In 2023, he joined the Korn Ferry Tour, where he was runner-up at the Price Cutter Charity Championship, 2 strokes behind his brother Pierceson.[6]
In 2024, he earned his PGA Tour card by being one of the top 30 players on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour points list. He and his brother Pierceson became the second pair of fraternal twins to hold PGA Tour membership simultaneously. Allan and Curtis Strange accomplished the feat in 1981.[7]
Coody has a twin brother, Pierceson, who is 37 minutes younger. Both are third-generation professional golfers. Their father Kyle played collegiately at the University of Texas and on the Asian Tour and Nike Tour in the 1990s. Their grandfather Charles played on the PGA Tour and won three times, including the 1971 Masters Tournament.[8]
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