PGA Player of Year Jason Caron

JASON CARON EARNS PGA PROFESSIONAL JASON CARON EARNS PGA PROFESSIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR 2020 PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR 2020

BY PGA OF AMERICA

Caron, the PGA Head Professional at Mill River Club, Inc. in Oyster Bay, began his year in strong fashion, emerging from a three-player playoff to win the 2020 PGA Stroke Play Championship. Caron authored two other wins in Metropolitan PGA Section play, winning the Section’s PGA Professional Championship in September, also in a playoff, before claiming a wire-to-wire, two-stroke victory in the 96th Long Island Open in October. He was subsequently named Metropolitan PGA Section Player of the Year.

Caron, 48, collected 625.000 total points, while Rod Perry of Port Orange, Florida, was runner-up with 590.350. Scott Berliner of Lake Luzerne, New York (565.000), was third and Ryan Vermeer of Omaha, Nebraska (548.750) the 2018 and ‘19 PGA Professional Player of the Year finished fourth.

“I’ve been playing well for about two and a half years now, but I feel like I really broke through

in 2020,” said Caron, who was a member of the PGA Tour in 2000 and ‘03 and finished T-30 in the 2002 U.S. Open.

“To earn the PGA Professional Player of the Year award means a ton. Just to have this on my playing resume, it’s a special accomplishment. It’s an honor to represent my fellow 29,000 PGA Professionals, the Met Section and Mill River, all who have encouraged me to play this game. My hats off to them.”