Abraham Ancer

Ancer was born in McAllen, Texas; raised partially in Reynosa, Mexico; and has dual American and Mexican citizenship.^[3] He attended Sharyland High School in Mission, Texas. He played college golf at Odessa College and the University of Oklahoma, from which he graduated in 2013 with a degree in General Studies.^[3][4]

During his one year at Odessa, Ancer was a first-team All-American and finished in a tie for second in the Junior College National Golf Championship. At Oklahoma, he saw his most success during his first year, winning twice while having the sixth-lowest scoring average in Oklahoma history of 72.03. During his entire career, he ended up second in all-time scoring average.^[4]

Ancer turned professional in 2013. In December 2014, he tied for 35th place at the Web.com Tour Qualifying School final stage.^[5] He played on the Web.com Tour in 2015, where he finished runner-up at the Brasil Champions in March and won the Nova Scotia Open in July.^[6]

He finished 11th in the regular season money list, which earned him a PGA Tour card for the 2016 season.^[7] In his rookie year, Ancer did not perform consistently, with a best finish of T-18 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic. He finished 190th in FedEx Cup points and couldn't maintain his card for the 2017 season, which sent him back to the Web.com Tour.^[3][8]

During the 2017 Web.com Tour, Ancer carded five top-5 finishes, including three runner-up finishes, which allowed him to secure his PGA Tour card for the 2018 season by finishing in 3rd place on the regular-season money list.^[3][9]

During the 2018 season, Ancer finished 9th at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba, 8th at the Houston Open, 4th at the Quicken Loans National, 5th at the RBC Canadian Open, and 7th at the Dell Technologies Championship. The Quicken Loans National was part of the Open Qualifying Series and his high finish gave him an entry to the 2018 Open Championship, his first major championship, where he had rounds of 71 and 78 and missed the cut. In the PGA Tour season Ancer earned US$1.7 million and finished 60th in the FedEx Cup.

Ancer had a good start to the 2018–19 season with top-5 finishes in the CIMB Classic and the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, results that lifted him into the world top-100 for the first time. He followed this up with a 5-stroke victory in the Australian Open, a week before representing Mexico in the World Cup of Golf. His Australian Open win gave him an entry to the 2019 Open Championship. Ancer finished second in the Northern Trust in August 2019 and ended the year by tying for 21st at the Tour Championship. This earned him $478,000 in FedEx Cup bonus money.

Ancer's strong play in 2019 qualified him for the 2019 Presidents Cup International team. The event was held at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in December 2019. The U.S. team defeated the Internationals 16–14. Ancer went 3–1–1. His lone loss came in the Sunday singles, 3 & 2 against U.S. playing-captain Tiger Woods. Ancer had told media prior to the event that he wanted to play Woods in singles. Woods said afterward "Abe wanted it, he got it."^[10]

At the 2020 RBC Heritage, Ancer finished runner-up shooting −21, earning him $773,900. Ancer led the tournament in Driving Accuracy (82.1%) and Greens In Regulation (90.3%).^[11]

In May 2021, Ancer finished second at the Wells Fargo Championship. One shot behind Rory McIlroy.^[12] In late July/early August he played in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, finishing tied for 14th place with Norway's Viktor Hovland after scoring 12-under-par for the four rounds of the Men's Tournament.^[13] The following week he obtained his first career victory in a PGA Tour event after winning the 2021 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational after two sudden-death playoff holes against Hideki Matsuyama and Sam Burns.^[14] With the win, Ancer became the fourth Mexican player to win on the PGA Tour and the first to win on the European Tour.

Ancer joined LIV Golf in June 2022 following the U.S. Open, and was subsequently suspended from the PGA Tour.^[15] Ancer has yet to win individually on the tour, but did win the team trophy in Bangkok.^[16]

In February 2023, Ancer won the PIF Saudi International on the Asian Tour. He shot a final-round 68 to win by two shots ahead of Cameron Young and claim a wire-to-wire victory.^[17]

• 2009 Odessa College Invitational
• 2010 Omega Chemical/Midland College, Texas Junior College Championship, NJCAA District 2 Championship
• 2011 Desert Shootout, NCAA East-VA Tech Regional

Source:^[18]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	8 Aug 2021	WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational	67-62-67-68=264	−16	Playoff	Sam Burns, Hideki Matsuyama

PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2021	WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational	Sam Burns, Hideki Matsuyama	Won with birdie on second extra hole

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	8 Aug 2021	WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational	67-62-67-68=264	−16	Playoff	Sam Burns, Hideki Matsuyama

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2021	WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational	Sam Burns, Hideki Matsuyama	Won with birdie on second extra hole

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	5 Feb 2023	PIF Saudi International	63-66-64-68=261	−19	2 strokes	Cameron Young

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	18 Nov 2018	Emirates Australian Open	69-69-65-69=272	−16	5 strokes	Dimitrios Papadatos

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	5 Jul 2015	Nova Scotia Open	69-70-64-68=271	−13	Playoff	Bronson Burgoon

Web.com Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2015	Nova Scotia Open	Bronson Burgoon	Won with birdie on first extra hole
2	2017	Nashville Golf Open	Lanto Griffin	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	10 Mar 2024	LIV Golf Hong Kong	63-62-72=197	−13	Playoff	Paul Casey, Cameron Smith

LIV Golf League playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2024	LIV Golf Hong Kong	Paul Casey, Cameron Smith	Won with birdie on first extra hole

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	5 Nov 2023	Pan American Games	−21 (68-67-65-67=267)	1 stroke	Sebastián Muñoz

Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

• Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (2020 PGA – 2021 PGA)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice)

"T" indicates a tie for a place
C = Cancelled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runners-up
2021	WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational	4-shot deficit	−16 (67-62-67-68=264)	Playoff	Sam Burns, Hideki Matsuyama

¹Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022.

• World Cup (representing Mexico): 2018
• Presidents Cup (representing the International team): 2019

• 2015 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
• 2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates

• Abraham Ancer at the PGA Tour official site
• Abraham Ancer at the European Tour official site
• Abraham Ancer at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
• Abraham Ancer at Olympedia
• Abraham Ancer at Olympics.com