Kent Eger (born February 18, 1981) is a Canadian professional golfer who plays on the Canadian Tour and Gateway Tour. Eger was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona.[1]
Eger had success as a junior golfer in Saskatchewan, winning the 1999 Saskatchewan Junior Boys Championship,[2] before moving to British Columbia to further his golf career. Eger played out of the Radium Resort in Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, where he represented British Columbia on two Willingdon Cup teams, and played in four Canadian Amateur Championships.
Eger turned professional in 2006, and began playing competitively on the Gateway Tour in Phoenix, Arizona. He has played there for four seasons, and has won five tournaments.[3]
In 2008, Eger joined the Canadian Tour on a full-time basis, and was named Canadian Rookie of the Year. Eger's debut season included a win at the 2008 Seaforth Country Classic, where his score of 26-under-par was one shot shy of the Canadian Tour's all-time scoring record held by Tim Clark, but did set an overall Canadian Tour low record 72-hole score of 258. Two years later, Eger won his second Canadian Tour tournament at the same event, the 2010 Seaforth Country Classic.[4]
In 2008, Eger successfully made it through the first two stages of the PGA Tour Qualifying School and reached the final stage, where he obtained conditional status on the 2009 Nationwide Tour. Being low on the priority list, he only played in two Nationwide Tour events in 2009, missing the cut at both the Wayne Gretzky Classic and the Mexican PGA Championship.
Eger was one of 11 contestants on Big Break Indian Wells, which began screening in hour-long weekly installments on the Golf Channel on May 16, 2011. The winner gained an exemption into the PGA Tour's 2012 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, along with an array of monetary prizes and endorsements, totaling over $50,000.[5] Eger lost in the finale of the competition to fellow countryman David Byrne.
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 31, 2008 | Seaforth Country Classic | 65-64-65-64=258 | −26 | 2 strokes |  Wil Collins, John Ellis, Daniel Im
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| 2 | Aug 22, 2010 | Economical Insurance Group Seaforth Country Classic (2) | 67-64-68-65=264 | −20 | 2 strokes |  Josh Geary
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| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 7, 2006 | Desert Summer 12 | 64-67-64=195 | −16 | 1 stroke | Aaron Watkins
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| 2 | Mar 22, 2007 | Desert Spring 1 | 205 | −11 | 6 strokes | Brian Vranesh
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| 3 | Sep 7, 2007 | Desert Summer 12 | 65-67-68-69=269 | −18 | 1 stroke | Brian Kontak, Andy Walker
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| 4 | Apr 25, 2008 | Desert Spring 5 | 66-66-68=200 | −13 | 1 stroke |  Richard T. Lee
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| 5 | Oct 8, 2010 | Q School Challenge 4 | 69-69-72=210 | −6 | 2 strokes | Richard T. Lee
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