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Mueller wins PGA Professional Championship
4/20/2022 6:53:00 PM | Men's Golf, Paul Coro
GCU Golf Course director teams with wife as caddy for trip to major
AUSTIN, Texas – In his current life balance, Jesse Mueller knows how to manage a course as GCU Golf Course Director of Golf but also enjoy the fruits of time with his family.
Out of that, Mueller might be a better golfer than in his mini-tour years and reveled in that golf-family mix Wednesday when he hit his golf career pinnacle with his wife, Jessie, as his caddie and the Walter Hagen Cup in hand.
Mueller, wearing GCU on his visor and polo, separated himself from the PGA Professional Championship field with three phenomenal rounds of 66, 67 and 66 to start the week. That set up him up to put away the title Wednesday with a five-stroke cushion over the runners-up at Fazio Foothills Course of the Omni Barton Creek Resort and Spa.
The Muellers' 12th wedding anniversary started with a first-hole bogey in Sunday's first round. But sort of like their meals after an anniversary Domino's pizza dinner, the round and the week only got better for the couple to celebrate Mueller's automatic PGA Championship berth and a $60,000 champion prize.
Mueller, also a seven-year GCU men's golf volunteer assistant coach, is the first Southwest PGA professional to win the PGA Professional Championship in its 54-year history.
"Some of the pressure's off. It's not my livelihood to play, so it's more of a bonus," Mueller told Golfweek. "I'm still working on it, practicing, but I might be a better player now than I was when I was playing full-time."
Mueller, son of GCU President Brian Mueller and brother of Lopes men's golf head coach Mark Mueller, took a five-stroke lead into the final round because of a consistently excellent short game. It was what turned around his opening round from the beginning bogey, which was followed by birdies on four of the next six holes.
It continued with shots like a 50-foot pitch for birdie on Tuesday's eighth hole and a chip-in at No. 10 on Wednesday to maintain his five-shot lead before he put the win away with birdies at Nos. 15 and 16.
"I was just getting up and down all over the place," Mueller told Golfweek after only carding four bogeys in the first three rounds. "Out here, you have to because it's so hard to hit all the greens with how windy is. So you have to get up and down out here."
Mueller, 39, credited his wife/caddy for how comfortable and collected he remained while leading most of the tournament. The two-time Southwest PGA Section champion tied for 29th last year at this event, which sends the top 20 to the PGA Championship on May 16-20 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It will be Mueller's second PGA major after playing in the U.S. Open in 2012 and his sixth PGA Tour event.
"It's been a roller-coaster, for sure," Jessie, Mueller's wife, said to Golfweek after becoming a storyline for The Golf Channel on Tuesday's and Wednesday's broadcasts. "But he's a phenomenal player, and I know that. The key was just to keep things going and have his game working at the right times, which he did this week.
"I'm really, really proud of him."
Out of that, Mueller might be a better golfer than in his mini-tour years and reveled in that golf-family mix Wednesday when he hit his golf career pinnacle with his wife, Jessie, as his caddie and the Walter Hagen Cup in hand.
Mueller, wearing GCU on his visor and polo, separated himself from the PGA Professional Championship field with three phenomenal rounds of 66, 67 and 66 to start the week. That set up him up to put away the title Wednesday with a five-stroke cushion over the runners-up at Fazio Foothills Course of the Omni Barton Creek Resort and Spa.The Muellers' 12th wedding anniversary started with a first-hole bogey in Sunday's first round. But sort of like their meals after an anniversary Domino's pizza dinner, the round and the week only got better for the couple to celebrate Mueller's automatic PGA Championship berth and a $60,000 champion prize.
Mueller, also a seven-year GCU men's golf volunteer assistant coach, is the first Southwest PGA professional to win the PGA Professional Championship in its 54-year history.
"Some of the pressure's off. It's not my livelihood to play, so it's more of a bonus," Mueller told Golfweek. "I'm still working on it, practicing, but I might be a better player now than I was when I was playing full-time."
Mueller, son of GCU President Brian Mueller and brother of Lopes men's golf head coach Mark Mueller, took a five-stroke lead into the final round because of a consistently excellent short game. It was what turned around his opening round from the beginning bogey, which was followed by birdies on four of the next six holes.
It continued with shots like a 50-foot pitch for birdie on Tuesday's eighth hole and a chip-in at No. 10 on Wednesday to maintain his five-shot lead before he put the win away with birdies at Nos. 15 and 16.
"I was just getting up and down all over the place," Mueller told Golfweek after only carding four bogeys in the first three rounds. "Out here, you have to because it's so hard to hit all the greens with how windy is. So you have to get up and down out here."Mueller, 39, credited his wife/caddy for how comfortable and collected he remained while leading most of the tournament. The two-time Southwest PGA Section champion tied for 29th last year at this event, which sends the top 20 to the PGA Championship on May 16-20 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It will be Mueller's second PGA major after playing in the U.S. Open in 2012 and his sixth PGA Tour event.
"It's been a roller-coaster, for sure," Jessie, Mueller's wife, said to Golfweek after becoming a storyline for The Golf Channel on Tuesday's and Wednesday's broadcasts. "But he's a phenomenal player, and I know that. The key was just to keep things going and have his game working at the right times, which he did this week.
"I'm really, really proud of him."
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