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Josh Teater

professional golfer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ6289431
Source-derived summary

Joshua Bain Teater (born April 6, 1979) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour.

Early life and amateur career

Teater was born in Danville, Kentucky but grew up in Lexington. He graduated from Henry Clay High School in 1997. He played baseball and golf for the blue devils before attended the Morehead State University, where he graduated in 2001 and had one collegiate title

Professional career

In 2001, Teater turned professional. He bounced around on the mini-tours from 2001 to 2009 until he joined the Nationwide Tour.

Teater found success in his Nationwide Tour rookie season. He finished runner-up to Michael Sim at the Christmas in October Classic and won the Utah Championship in September. He finished 7th on the money list to earn his 2010 PGA Tour card and finished 89th in 2010 to retain his PGA Tour card.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1997, 2001, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-04-06. For this dossier, Josh, Teater and professional is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Josh Teater” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.