Billy Hurley III

Willard Jeremiah "Billy" Hurley III (born June 9, 1982) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour.

Early life Hurley grew up in Leesburg, Virginia, the oldest of four children of Bill and Cheryl Hurley. Hurley attended Loudoun County High School. During his senior year in 2000, he was one of 17 golfers named honorable mention All-Met, referring to one of the top golfers in the Washington, D.C. metro area. He also was named all-state in Virginia. He also was named Academic All-American. After his graduation from the academy, he was assigned to the , a guided-missile cruiser based in Mayport, Florida, where he was a combat electronic division officer.

Amateur career As an amateur, Hurley was a member of the victorious American team in the 2005 Walker Cup, held at the Chicago Golf Club. The Walker Cup is a competition held biennially that matches the top American amateurs against the best of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also captain of the 2004 Palmer Cup team, an annual competition named for Arnold Palmer that matches American collegiate golfers against European college/university players.

Professional career On the 2011 Nationwide Tour, Hurley's best finish was second place at the Chiquita Classic while having four top-10 finishes. He entered the 2011 Nationwide Tour Championship in the 25th money list position and his T18 position earned him his PGA Tour card.

Hurley played 27 events on the 2012 PGA Tour, with his best finish a tie for fourth at the AT&T National. However, Hurley finished 151st on the money list and therefore he missed conditional status on the 2013 PGA Tour by $165.

At 2012 Q School, Hurley finished tied for 73rd place. Since at Q School, the top 25 players and ties earn PGA Tour cards and the next 50 players earn Web.com Tour cards, Hurley earned a Web.com Tour card for the 2013 Web.com Tour season. He made 15 cuts in 24 events on the Web.com Tour in 2013 with his best finish a playoff loss at the United Leasing Championship. He played in the Web.com Tour Finals and finished 26th to earn his PGA Tour card for 2014.

Hurley began the 2013–14 season with a tie for ninth place at the October 2013 Frys.com Open in San Martin, California. He earned $240,000, moving him to 65th on the 2014 money list with $440,551. After a stretch of several mediocre tournaments and missed cuts, on May 18 he finished T-16 in the HP Byron Nelson Championship, earning $100,050. At the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, out of 156 golfers entered, Hurley was one of only 67 to make the cut and play through the weekend. He finished the tournament T-48. He shot a final-round 73 to finish T-4 and earn $227,036, which put him over the $1 million mark in 2014 earnings at $1,105,659. The T-4 finish combined with his world ranking also qualified him to play in his second major, The Open Championship July 17–20 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake. At The Open, he again made the cut in a major and finished the tournament T-64. He finished T-8 to win $189,000. After missing four cuts in his first six events of calendar year 2015, he had his best tournament of the calendar year March 15 at the Valspar Championship, finishing T-17 and winning $77,206.

After his strong finish at the Valspar Championship, Hurley struggled, missing the cut at four of his next five tournaments. In June he finished at T-18 in the FedEx St. Jude Classic and tallied his only other top-25 finish on August 9 at the Barracuda Championship. For the 2015 season, through August 23, he had played in 28 events, making the cut in 14 and earning $591,450. on the PGA Tour after the Wyndham Championship, in which he missed the cut, he lost his PGA Tour playing card for the 2015–16 season. He played in the Web.com Tour Finals but did not regain his PGA Tour card and started the 2015–16 season with conditional status. By winning the tournament, he qualified for the 2016 Open Championship; however, he skipped the event to attend his sister's wedding.

He attained his best-ever showing in a major tournament on July 31, 2016 by finishing T-22 at the 2016 PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club.

Hurley played in the PGA Tour 2018 Sanderson Farms Championship Oct. 25-28, finishing T-54. On March 24, 2019 he posted his best finish to date in well over a year with a T-30 at the Valspar Championship, earning $39,817. World Gospel Outreach, a children's camp in Honduras; Ark Children's House, an orphanage in Ecuador; and Adoption Advocates International, which operates an orphanage in Ethiopia (Layla House) where he adopted his son, Jacob.

In 2017, Hurley hosted his inaugural charity golf event, Billy Hurley III and The Brave Golf Tournament, at the Naval Academy Golf Course in Annapolis. Proceeds from the event were to go to three beneficiaries: the Anchor Scholarship Foundation, which provides college tuition for family members of surface warfare personnel; to fund a junior golf scholarship administered by the Middle-Atlantic PGA (MAPGA); and to the Naval Academy Athletic Association and directed toward improvements at the Naval Academy Golf Course.

Professional wins (3) PGA Tour wins (1)

NGA Hooters Tour wins (1) 2010 Terry Moore Ford Open

Tarheel Tour wins (1)

Playoff record Web.com Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the halfway cut "T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut "T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

"T" = Tied

U.S. national team appearances Amateur Palmer Cup: 2004 Walker Cup: 2005 (winners)