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Jay Hebert

United States · born , St. Martinville, Louisiana · died

1major championship

Summary

  • First major 1960 PGA Championship
  • Ryder Cup 2 Cups · 2-1-1 · 2.5 points (62.5%)
  • Ryder Cup captain 1971

Wins

  1. 1960 PGA Championship Firestone Country Club (South Course) · 281 (+1) · by 1 stroke from Jim Ferrier

Ryder Cup

2 Cups, 4 matches: 2 won, 1 lost, 1 halved, 2.5 points. Foursomes 2-0-0, four-ball 0-0-0, singles 0-1-1.

  1. 1959 Eldorado Country Club USA · USA won 8.5–3.5 · 0-0-1, 0.5 points
  2. 1961 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club USA · USA won 14.5–9.5 · 2-1-0, 2 points
  3. 1971 Captain USA · won 18.5–13.5

Rivals

Ryder Cup partners

Ryder Cup opponents

Next in the chain: Art Wall Jr.'s rivals →

Moments

  1. 1960 PGA Championship Jay Hebert won with an even-par closing 70 despite a double bogey on the 10th hole, a year when his brother Lionel had already won the 1957 PGA.
  2. 1960 PGA Championship Ben Hogan, playing his first PGA since winning in 1948, missed the 54-hole cut at Firestone.

Results by championship

    Best day

    1960 PGA Championship

    Firestone Country Club (South Course), Akron, Ohio · 281 (+1) · by 1 stroke from Jim Ferrier

    Jay Hebert won with an even-par closing 70 despite a double bogey on the 10th hole, a year when his brother Lionel had already won the 1957 PGA.

    Ben Hogan, playing his first PGA since winning in 1948, missed the 54-hole cut at Firestone.

    Chosen by rule: his widest winning margin in a major. Year page: 1960.

    Career line, 1959–1961

    PGA Championship
    1960 PGA Championship: won
    Ryder Cup
    1959 Ryder Cup (USA): 0-0-11961 Ryder Cup (USA): 2-1-0
    1959196019611962

    3 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.

    • Major win
    • Ryder Cup, USA

    Jay Hebert was born on February 14, 1923, in St. Martinville, Louisiana. Hebert won one major championship: the 1960 PGA Championship. Hebert played in 2 Ryder Cups for USA (1959, 1961), winning 2, losing 1 and halving 1 of 4 matches for 2.5 points, and captained the side in 1971.

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    The record

    Wins in the majors (1)

    1. 1960 PGA Championship Firestone Country Club (South Course), Akron, Ohio · 281 (+1) · by 1 stroke from Jim Ferrier

    Ryder Cup

    Hebert played 2 Ryder Cups for USA: 4 matches, 2 won, 1 lost, 1 halved, 2.5 points (62.5% of those available). By format: foursomes 2-0-0, four-ball 0-0-0, singles 0-1-1 (won-lost-halved).

    1. 1959 Eldorado Country Club USA · USA won 8.5–3.5 · 0-0-1, 0.5 points
    2. 1961 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club USA · USA won 14.5–9.5 · 2-1-0, 2 points
    3. 1971 Captain USA · won 18.5–13.5

    Partners, with matches played together: Art Wall Jr. (2).

    PGA Championship match play

    Every recorded match in our bracket file, 1916–1957: 3 won, 2 lost.

    1. 1955 Round of 64 beat Alex Redl 4 & 3
    2. 1955 Round of 32 lost to Jack Fleck 2 & 1
    3. 1957 Round of 32 beat Charles Harper Jr. 1 up
    4. 1957 Round of 16 beat Doug Ford 3 & 2
    5. 1957 Quarterfinal lost to Walter Burkemo 2 & 1

    Sources

    Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.

    1. where2golf
    2. PGA Tour
    3. Golf Compendium PGA Tour career wins
    4. Golf Compendium winners list
    5. WP: List of American Ryder Cup golfers
    6. rydercup.com — link no longer works (checked October 17, 2026): https://rydercup.com/news-media/usa/ryder-cup-team-usa-past-captains
    7. Golf Compendium
    8. Golf Compendium 1960
    9. PGA of America 2012 media guide
    10. The Golf News Net history table (2026)
    11. Today's Golfer purse history
    12. PGA of America 1960 leaderboard
    13. PGA of America 2013 media guide, p. 70
    14. Golf Compendium 1957
    15. GC: 1959 ryder cup
    16. Wikipedia: 1959 Ryder Cup
    17. GC: 1961 ryder cup
    18. WP 1961