Joe Jimenez

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1 Champions Tour wins
2 Other Senior career wins
3 References

For other persons named Joe Jimenez, see Joe Jimenez (disambiguation).

Joe Jimenez (born June 10, 1926) is an American professional golfer best known for winning the 1978 PGA Seniors' Championship, one of the major championships in senior men's professional golf.

Jimenez played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He spent many years (1964–1991) as the club pro at the Jefferson City Country Club in Jefferson City, Missouri. His best showing in a major championship was a T-45 at the 1958 U.S. Open. The highlight of his career came when he won the 1978 Senior PGA Championship in a playoff over Manuel de la Torre and Joe Cheves with a birdie on the first extra hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Jimenez holds or formerly held two of golfs "shoot below your age" records. At the 1991 GTE Northwest Classic, a Senior PGA Tour event, 65-year-old Jimenez became the youngest player to shoot his age or lower in a tournament on one of golf's major professional circuits by shooting a 63. This record was later broken when 61-year-old Walter Morgan shot a 60 in the AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship. Jimenez still holds the most-strokes-below-age (7) record. He shot a 62 during the 1995 Ameritech Senior Open at the age of 69.^[1]

Jimenez lives at Tapatio Springs, a golf resort community in the Texas Hill Country 30 miles northwest of San Antonio. Since 1974, the Jefferson City Country Club has hosted a tournament in his honor, the Joe Jimenez Invitational. ^[2] He holds several Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions records.