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Scott Petersen

professional golfer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7437043 ↗
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Scott Petersen (born July 4, 1970) is an American professional golfer.

Career

Petersen was born in Williston, North Dakota. He played college golf at the University of Tulsa and the University of Colorado. At Colorado, he was an All-American his senior year. Petersen turned professional in 1993.

Between 1996 and 2007, Petersen played on the Nationwide Tour (1996, 2000–07) and the Canadian Tour (1997–99). He won twice on the Canadian Tour and once on the Nationwide Tour.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1993, 1996, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-07-04. The account is most persuasive where Scott, Petersen and professional can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7437043. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1993, 1996 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scott Petersen” 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.