Greg Eason

Player Highlights

Just a half dozen years ago, Eason couldn’t have imagined a career as a professional golfer. He was planning to be surveyor in his native England, but a friend who was in the United States playing golf recommended Eason to the golf coach at the University of Central Florida, who had been an assistant coach at the friend’s school. “One minute I was doing construction,” Eason told The Telegraph in 2014, “and the next minute I am trying to play golf.” Eason flourished at UCF, becoming a two-time, first-team All-American and graduating with a Communications degree. The former badminton and soccer player—he supports Liverpool FC, not hometown Leicester City that pulled a major upset to win the 2015-16 Premier League—quickly found success after qualifying for the Mackenzie Tour –PGA TOUR Canada two years ago with four top-10 finishes in 12 events. Eason finished fifth on the Order of Merit to earn conditional status on the 2015 Web.com Tour, then improved his status at Web.com Tour Q-School with a T16 finish. Having proven he can go low, posting a 62 earlier this season at the Panama Claro Championship and a 63 at the 2014 Forces and Families Open on the Mackenzie Tour. Eason has played solidly on the Web.com Tour, making the cut in 23 of 35 career starts including eight of nine in 2016—avoiding most of the ups and downs of one of his passions, rollercoasters. While he would like to trade places with British Prime Minister David Cameron for a day, Eason is happy moving up in a sport that once seemed an unlikely career.