Background
Kaye was born in Denver, Colorado, and is Jewish.
Kaye was born in Denver, Colorado, and is Jewish.
He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1993 and turned pro that same year.
Foreign the linguist, see Jonathan Kaye (linguist)
He began playing on the Professional Golf Association Tour in 1995 after successfully competing in qualifying school. He is a self-taught player who has never had a teacher. "There"s nobody who could teach my swing," he has said.
Kaye has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking, though he has not played a Professional Golf Association Tour event since 2011.
Kaye briefly reappeared on the Web.com Tour in 2014, playing in three events and making the cut once with a T65 at the Panama Claro Championship. 2001 incident
In Kaye"s early days in the tour, he was known to occasionally find himself in the center of sports media attention for his unorthodox behavior.
Kaye"s most well known clash with the Tour came at the 2001 Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, played less than a month after 9/11. The co-leader after the second round, Kaye was heading to the locker room.
As the story goes, a security guard refused him entry without his player Idaho badge, which Kaye then found and clipped provocatively to his belt buckle or the zipper of his pants.
The guard took offense, and Professional Golf Association Tour commissioner Tim Finchem reportedly suspended Kaye for two months (but the Professional Golf Association Tour never divulges or even acknowledges player suspensions). Professional Golf Association Tour wins (2)
Other wins (1)
1996 Colorado Open.