© Copyright 2005 Jay Sigel
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© Copyright 2005 Jay Sigel
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Jay Sigel has been in the insurance business for over 35 years. Jay earned the professional designations
of Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) from the American College in 1975
and 1984, respectively. He provides a full range of insurance services to his clients, including life insurance,
disability income coverage, retirement benefits and group health insurance.
His affiliation with CBIZ, which provides Business Insurance, Accounting, Tax and Advisory services, Human Resources
and Benefits Consulting and Administration, Information Technology services and Retirement and Wealth Management,
allows him to offer the full range of coverages his clients need.
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One of the country's finest amateur golfers of all-time… Captured back-to-back U.S. Amateur crowns in 1982-1983,
three U.S. Mid-Amateur titles and the 1979 British Amateur title… Served as playing captain of the 1983 and 1985
United States Walker Cup teams, and was a member of the 1977, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 1993 squads… Jay
holds record for most appearances and total points won in Walker Cup history… Played on record 7 American teams
in World Amateur Team Championship… Was low amateur in the 1981, 1982 and 1988 Masters as well as the 1980 British
Open and 1984 U.S. Open… Captured three Porter Cups, three Northeast Amateur titles, four Pennsylvania Open Championships,
seven Philadelphia Open titles and eleven Pennsylvania Amateur titles… Also won three Sunnehanna Amateur titles and
had the 11th hole at Sunnehanna CC dedicated to him in 1979… Nine-time Crump Cup champion at Pine Valley GC… Received
the Bob Jones Award and Ben Hogan Award in 1984…Also received the 1984 Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation's Athlete
of the Year Award… Included in Golf Magazine's 100 heroes of American Golf, and was inducted into the Collegiate Golf
Coaches of America Hall of Fame in 1988… Was selected to Pennsylvania's Sports Hall of Fame in 1993… Selected at the
Philadelphia Sportswriters Professional Athlete of the Year in 1994. Chosen as
Philadelphia's Athlete of the Nineties by Rick Westcott in his book on
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2004 - Jay had 6 Top Ten finishes and 46 sub-par rounds (84 played). He tied for 4th in Mexico at The MasterCard
Classic and The Allianz Championship in Des Moines. In the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions Division, he had three victories
and two 2nd place finishes. That allowed him to be the leader of the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions with $219,000 won.
Other highlights of the year for Jay include- 2003 - Won 2003 Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am, for 8th title on Champions Tour with a final day, course-tying record of 65. entered 30 tournaments for the year, with 1 win and 4 top 10 finishes. 2002: Had first tour victory since 1998 at the Farmers Charity Classic in May, with rounds of 67, 69, and 67 (including 2 eagles in the final round). Finished 2nd at the Uniting Fore Care Classic. Played in 30 events, finishing 4 times in the top 10 and 16 times in the top 25. Had winnings of $843,526. Named "2002 Comeback Player of the Year" by Golf World Magazine. 2001: After a 5 month recovery period due to shoulder surgery, returned to the Tour in June. Played in 18 events, finishing 4 times in the top 10 and 8 times in the top 25. Had winnings of $516,027. 2000: While suffering from injuries in both shoulders, finished 52nd on the money list with winnings of $362,707. Had 2 finishes in the top 10 and 13 finishes in the top 25. Had rotator cuff surgery in November 2000 and January, 2001. 1999: Failed to finish in the top 31 for the first time since joining the SENIOR TOUR in 1994...Made $549,061, but did not register a victory for the first time in three years... Played in more than 30 events for the fifth straight year...Had six top 10s, two of them in back-to-back weeks... Opened with a 1-over-par 71 at the Vantage Championship, but 65-63 on the weekend moved him into third...Leader after each of the first two rounds at the BankBoston Classic, but eventually finished T3 with 69 on Sunday...In Boston, missed birdie opportunities on the 53rd and 54th holes of regulation that could have put him into a playoff with Hale Irwin and eventual winner Tom McGinnis...His T27 at the MasterCard Championship at the start of the season earned him $11,000 and sent him past $5 million in SENIOR PGA TOUR earnings. 1998: Registered a pair of victories for the second straight season and went over the seven-figure mark in earnings for the third consecutive year...Was third at The Home Depot Invitational and then defeated Jose Maria Canizares with a birdie on the third extra hole of a playoff for the Bell Atlantic Classic title...His second-round, course-record 62 at Hartefeld National included an amazing 27 on the front nine...The SENIOR TOUR-record nine-hole score featured an eagle and seven straight birdies, the best eagle-birdie run in the history of the SENIOR TOUR...Went wire-to-wire for victory at the EMC 2 Kaanapali Classic...Fired a career-low and 1998-best 10-under 61 in the opening round...Was runner-up in the Cadillac Series with more than a million points and received a brand new Cadillac at season’s end...Ranked second on the SENIOR TOUR in Sub-Par Rounds (62) and T5 in Rounds in the 60s (36). 1997: Tied Gil Morgan for the most top-10 finishes (19) in the campaign, while compiling multiple wins for the first time as a professional....Made 31 starts and only once went three consecutive events without a top 10... His six consecutive topv 10s from mid-June to mid-July were highlighted by a win at the Kroger Senior Classic...Waltzed to a seven-stroke victory over Isao Aoki at Kings Island, setting a tournament record with an 18-under-par 195 total...Captured his first victory of the year in Birmingham at the Bruno’s Memorial Classic, holding off Gil Morgan by three strokes...Lost to Bob Murphy in a nine-hole playoff at the Toshiba Senior Classic in March when Murphy sank an 80-foot birdie putt...Also fell in a three-hole playoff at the Northville Long Island Classic in August to Monday qualifier Dana Quigley...Was T2 in Sub-Par Rounds with 62 , just one short of having the most Rounds in the 60s with 43. 1996: Posted the biggest victory of his SENIOR TOUR career in the season’s final official event, a two-stroke win over Kermit Zarley at the Energizer SENIOR TOUR Championship in Myrtle Beach, SC...Helped his cause with a hole-in-one in the third round (10th of his career)... $280,000 first-place check was the largest in the history of the circuit at the time and vaulted him over the million-dollar mark for the first time. 1995: Broke Jim Dent’s run as the SENIOR TOUR’s longest hitter, winning that statistical category with an average of 277.4 yards per drive. 1994: Garnered Rookie of the Year honors after completing one of the most remarkable come-from-behind victories in golf history at the GTE West Classic in Ojai, CA...Rallied from 10 strokes down to catch Jim Colbert in regulation and then defeated him on the fourth extra playoff hole for his first professional win...Final-round Dunes Club course-record 63 on his 51st birthday at the GOLF MAGAZINE SENIOR TOUR Championship included both an eagle and rare double-eagle (15th/5-wood/220 yards), the first of his career. 1993: Earned a conditional card at the SENIOR TOUR National Qualifying Tournament, finishing 11th at Grenelefe Resort. |
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