Brian Henninger

In 1962, Henninger was born in Sacramento, California. He attended the University of Southern California and walked on to the golf team there.^[1]

In 1987, Henninger turned pro. He played on a west coast minitour, the Golden State Golf Tour.^[2] In 1992, he won three tournaments on the Ben Hogan Tour and he joined the PGA Tour in 1993. Henninger's first PGA tournament win came in a playoff at the 1994 Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic in Madison, Mississippi, which was shortened by rain to only 36 holes (this win predated current PGA Tour rules which require 54 holes to be played for a tournament to be considered "official"). His only other PGA Tour win came in the same tournament (renamed as the Southern Farm Bureau Classic) in 1999 when he won by three strokes in another rain-shortened affair.^[3] Henninger's best result in a major championship was in the 1995 Masters Tournament, in which he shared the lead after 54 holes but closed with a disappointing 76, leaving him in a tie for 10th place.^[4]

Henninger's results in the early 2000s were disappointing, and he lost his PGA Tour card after the 2002 season. He spent the majority of the remaining decade on the Nationwide Tour, playing in PGA Tour events whenever possible as an alternate, through exemptions, or past champion status. After turning 50, Henninger joined the Champions Tour.

Henninger was one of the primary subjects of John Feinstein's 1995 book, A Good Walk Spoiled, which detailed life inside the ropes of the PGA Tour.^[5]

Henninger resides in Wilsonville, Oregon, with his wife and three children.^[6] His Brian Henninger Foundation has donated over $700,000 to numerous causes, mostly located in the Pacific Northwest.^[7]

this list may be incomplete

• 1986 Pacific Coast Amateur

Note: Henninger never played in The Open Championship.

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

• 1992 Ben Hogan Tour graduates
• 1996 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates