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Jon Mills (born March 6, 1978) is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 professional golfer
Professional golfer

In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who plays for money even once usually loses his or her amateur status permanently and is banned from all amateur tournaments....
.

Mills was born in Oshawa, Ontario
Oshawa, Ontario

Oshawa is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline, approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe....
, and spent most of his childhood in Belleville, Ontario
Belleville, Ontario

Belleville is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in southeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor....
. He developed his competitive game on the St. Lawrence Junior Tour in southeastern Ontario, and won the Ontario Junior Championship in 1996. He earned a golf scholarship to Kent State University
Kent State University

Kent State University is one of America's largest university systems, the third largest university in Ohio and the largest residential university in northeast Ohio....
, graduated in 2000, won the Ontario Amateur Championship in 2001, and turned professional later that year. His father David Mills serves as Executive Director for the Golf Association of Ontario
Golf Association of Ontario

The Golf Association of Ontario is a provincial affiliate of the Royal Canadian Golf Association....
.

Mills was a member of the PGA Tour
PGA Tour

The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida....
 in 2008, but did not finish high enough on its money list to retain his card for 2009.






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Jon Mills (born March 6, 1978) is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 professional golfer
Professional golfer

In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who plays for money even once usually loses his or her amateur status permanently and is banned from all amateur tournaments....
.

Mills was born in Oshawa, Ontario
Oshawa, Ontario

Oshawa is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline, approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe....
, and spent most of his childhood in Belleville, Ontario
Belleville, Ontario

Belleville is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in southeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor....
. He developed his competitive game on the St. Lawrence Junior Tour in southeastern Ontario, and won the Ontario Junior Championship in 1996. He earned a golf scholarship to Kent State University
Kent State University

Kent State University is one of America's largest university systems, the third largest university in Ohio and the largest residential university in northeast Ohio....
, graduated in 2000, won the Ontario Amateur Championship in 2001, and turned professional later that year. His father David Mills serves as Executive Director for the Golf Association of Ontario
Golf Association of Ontario

The Golf Association of Ontario is a provincial affiliate of the Royal Canadian Golf Association....
.

Mills was a member of the PGA Tour
PGA Tour

The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida....
 in 2008, but did not finish high enough on its money list to retain his card for 2009. He was a member of the PGA Tour in 2006, and the Nationwide Tour
Nationwide Tour

The Nationwide Tour is the developmental golf tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level....
 in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2007; he will return there for the 2009 season. He also played on the Canadian Tour in 2002 and 2003. He won his first professional event on the Canadian Tour in 2003, and it helped him win the Order of Merit for the 2003 season. Mills earned his first PGA Tour card by finishing 5th on the 2005 Nationwide Tour money list. As a rookie on tour in 2006, he only made 6 of 27 cuts, and had to go back to the Nationwide Tour for 2007. Mills finished in 4th place on the 2007 Nationwide Tour
2007 Nationwide Tour

The 2007 Nationwide Tour season ran from January 25 to November 4. The season consisted of 32 official money golf tournaments; three of which were played outside of the United States....
 money list to regain his PGA Tour card for 2008. Mills' caddie is Randy Dietz, a teammate of Mills at Kent State. Former British Open
British Open

The British Open commonly refers to The Open Championship men's golf tournament.British Open may also refer to the following sporting articles:...
 champion Ben Curtis
Ben Curtis (golfer)

Ben Clifford Curtis is an United States professional golfer best known for winning the 2003 The Open Championship.Curtis was born in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio and grew up in Ostrander, Ohio, Ohio....
 also played with Mills and Dietz at Kent State.

Professional wins (3)


Nationwide Tour wins (2)

  • 2005 Canadian PGA Championship
    Canadian PGA Championship

    The Canadian PGA Championship was a golf tournament organized by the Canadian Professional Golfers' Association. It was played from 1912 to 2005 at a variety of courses around Canada....
  • 2007 Albertsons Boise Open
    Albertsons Boise Open

    The Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft is a professional golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour, played annually in September at the Hillcrest Country Club in Boise, Idaho, Idaho....


Canadian Tour wins (1)

  • 2003 MTS Classic


Results in major championships

Tournament20072008
The Masters
The Masters Tournament

The Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters, or The U.S. Masters outside of the United States, is one of four Men's major golf championships in men's Professional golf tours....
DNPDNP
U.S. Open
U.S. Open (golf)

The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual Open Golf Tournaments of the United States. It is the second of the four men's major golf championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the PGA European Tour....
CUTT36
The Open Championship
The Open Championship

The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four men's major golf championships in men's golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico....
DNPDNP
PGA Championship
PGA Championship

The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four men's major golf championships in professional golf, and it is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August ....
DNPDNP


DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10

See also

  • 2007 Nationwide Tour Graduates
    2007 Nationwide Tour Graduates

    This is a list of players who graduated from the Nationwide Tour in 2007. The top 25 players on the Nationwide Tour's money list in 2007 earned their PGA Tour card for 2008....


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