Peter Jacobsen represents everything a professional athlete and committed community leader should be. Through the years he has used his talents and status to transcend the game of golf and touch the lives of many. He's a fierce competitor, consummate entertainer, community leader, passionate executive and a caring family man.
A 34-year veteran on the PGA TOUR, and an eight-year member of the Champions Tour, Peter has established himself as the unofficial ambassador of golf. He has served as a Player Director on the PGA TOUR, a golf commentator on ABC-TV and currently NBC Sports, a television analyst for The Skins Game, and a roving reporter for the 1991 Ryder Cup matches on NBC. He returns to NBC in 2011 as a golf analyst for eight events. His TV shows Peter and Friends and Peter Jacobsen Plugged In, which ran for three seasons each on The Golf Channel were a huge success. Peter has authored two books, Buried Lies: True Tales and Tall Stories From the PGA TOUR, published in 1993 and Embedded Balls, published in 2005. On TOUR, he represents several companies, including Lexus.
Peter is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Peter Jacobsen Sports (PJS), a sports marketing and event management firm. Peter has been a loyal and fierce advocate of keeping the tradition of golf alive and well in his home state of Oregon. PJS produced the popular Fred Meyer Challenge, 1986-2002; the 2003 U.S. Women's Open at Pumpkin Ridge in North Plains, Ore.; and the JELDWEN Tradition, 2004-2010, at Crosswater Golf Club in Sunriver,—and brought back golf to Portland in 2011 with the inaugural Umpqua Bank Challenge. Since 1988, Peter's company has produced nearly 250 events and expanded outside of Oregon with offices across the country.
Peter's business acumen also extends to golf course design. He co-designed The Oregon Golf Club in West Linn, Ore.; Genoa Lakes Golf Club and Resort in Lake Tahoe, Nev.; Blackhorse Golf Club in Cypress, Tex.; and continues golf course design as a principal of the Jacobsen Hardy Golf Course Design Company, based in Houston, Texas.
| AWARDS & HONORS | |
| 1988 | Oregon Sports Awards Pro Athlete of the Year Award |
| 1993 | Inducted into the University of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame |
| 1995 | PGA TOUR Player of the Month – February Oregon Sports Awards Pro Athlete of the Year Award |
| 1996 | Named Grand Marshal of the annual Portland Rose Festival Parade Received the Providence Child Center Foundation's Heart of Gold Award Received the prestigious University of Oregon Pioneer Award |
| 1999 | Received the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Hope Award |
| 2000 | Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors Portland First Citizen |
| 2003 | PGA TOUR Comeback Player of the Year Inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame Among The Oregonian's Top 25 Most Influential People in Oregon Sports |
| 2004 | Oregon Sports Awards Pro Athlete of the Year Award |
| 2006 | Recipient of the Francis Ouimet Award for Lifelong Contributions to Golf |
| 2007 | Among The Oregonian's Top 25 Most Influential People in Oregon Sports |
| 2012 | Recipient of GCSAA's Old Tom Morris Award |
| PGA TOUR VICTORIES (7) | |
| 1980 | Buick-Goodwrench Open |
| 1984 | Colonial National Invitational Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open |
| 1990 | Bob Hope Chrysler Classic |
| 1995 | Buick Invitational of California AT&T Pebble Beach® National Pro-Am |
| 2003 | Greater Hartford Open |
| CHAMPIONS TOUR VICTORIES (3) | |
| 2004 | U.S. Senior Open |
| 2005 | FORD Senior Players Championship |
| 2008 | Wendy's Champions Skins Game |
| INTERNATIONAL VICTORIES (3) | |
| 1979 | Western Australian Open |
| 1981 | Johnny Walker Cup |
| 1982 | Johnny Walker Cup |
| NATIONAL TEAMS (3) | |
| 1984 | U.S. vs. Japan |
| 1985 | U.S. Ryder Cup |
| 1995 | U.S. Ryder Cup |
| 1995 | Dunhill Cup |