Playing golf is hard enough at the professional level when you are right in your prime, so to continue to do it and make cuts beyond the age of 60 is quite something.
Over the years of this great game, we’ve seen a number of players continue playing into their later years and have enormous success.
The likes of Bernhard Langer and Ernie Els have excelled on the PGA Tour Champions, while popular Irish golfer Padraig Harrington continues to make waves in both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour events.
Nevertheless, those players are still well below the age that Sam Snead was when he made the cut as a 67-year-old at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic.
However, while Snead’s record stood for some time, it would eventually be broken some 43 years later.
How Jay Haas became the oldest golfer to make the cut on the PGA Tour
When you look at the players on the PGA Tour Champions now who have played more than anyone, Jay Haas is right up there.
He’s played a whopping 799 events on the PGA Tour and then carried that into the senior tour, amassing a further 381 events played with 18 wins among those.
However, despite now being a 71-year-old, it is his feat on the PGA Tour back in 2022 which is arguably one of the greatest in golfing history.
Playing in the 2022 Zurich Classic in New Orleans, Haas teed it up alongside his son Bill Haas, the duo managed to do the business to see Haas Snr sneak into the weekend.
They didn’t stop there though either. In fact, ‘Team Haas’ went on to finish T36, coming in at -12 as a duo and putting Haas right at the top in terms of oldest players to make a cut.
Of course, the man he beat to that was the legendary Sam Snead, who had held the record for 43 years.
Jay Haas and his PGA Tour record in numbers
Playing nearly 800 events on the PGA Tour is bordering on ludicrous but that is what we got from Jay Haas.
In a quite extraordinary career, he managed 799 appearances, coupled with another 999 on the DP World Tour, all before moving to the senior tour and continuing.
In terms of wins, Haas won nine times on the PGA Tour proper, finishing in second place another 14 times and adding 68 top fives to his name.
Impressively, Haas made the cut in 592 of those 799 events, meaning he made the cut in just shy of 75% of his tournaments.
Earning over $34m in prize money in a career spanning from the 70s right until the modern day, it’s safe to say that Jay Haas has enjoyed quite the career.
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