Abraham

Ancer

Ancer turned professional in 2013 after graduating from the University of Oklahoma.

He earned his ticket for the Web.com Tour (now Korn Ferry Tour) in December 2014 by finishing tied for 35th at qualifying school.

Ancer landed his first career win at the 2015 Nova Scotia Open, overcoming the challenge of Bronson Burgoon on a second playoff hole.

That helped him to an 11th-place finish on the regular season money list to secure a PGA Tour card for 2015-16.

In 2017-18, he secured five top-10 finishes including a T4 at the Quicken Loans National which gave him a place in the 2018 Open Championship in July.

Four months after his maiden appearance in the majors, Ancer entered the 2018 Australian Open on the PGA Tour of Australasia and powered to a five-stroke victory at The Lakes, Sydney.

A week later he was representing Mexico in the World Cup of Golf and along with partner Roberto Diaz ended the year on a high, securing T2 for their nation.

Ancer represented the International Team in the 2019 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne.

The rookie put in a stellar performance with a 3-1-1 record, making him joint top-scorer for the tournament with 3.5 points, although the U.S. took the overall win 16-14.

Ancer’s Saturday afternoon foursomes match, where he was partnered with Ripper GC's Marc Leishman against Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler, produced a classic.

The U.S. pairing was 5-up with eight holes to play, but Ancer and Leishman came roaring back to tie a spellbinding match.

Abraham Ancer’s debut at the Masters in 2020 was nothing short of eventful. By the end of the second round at Augusta National, Ancer was part of a five-man group who shared the lead at 9-under.

He remained competitive through Round 3 and while Dustin Johnson had a four-stroke lead, Ancer was T2 with Cameron Smith and Im Sung-jae.

Johnson claimed the Green Jacket on Sunday, but Ancer loved the experience all the same.

“I was hitting the ball really, really well and putting really well and then just like that I’m teeing off in the last group on Sunday. That’s when it hit me, I was like ‘wow I am nervous’ but I liked it," Ancer told Fairway To Heaven.

“It was definitely a really cool experience to play with DJ and watch him win his Green Jacket.”

Ancer finished runner-up to Rory McIlroy in the Wells Fargo Championship in May 2021 and two weeks later he accomplished his best finish at a major with T8 at the PGA Championship.

Ancer was competing for national honours again in August, finishing T14 for Mexico in the delayed Tokyo Olympics and just a week later he landed his first win on the PGA Tour.

After four rounds of a fiercely contested WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind, Ancer, Sam Burns and Hideki Matsuyama were tied at the top of the leaderboard at 16-under.

Ancer finally broke free with a birdie on the second sudden-death playoff hole to become just the fourth Mexican golfer to win on the PGA Tour and the first to celebrate a European Tour victory.

Abraham Ancer signed with LIV Golf in June 2022, in time to play in the second event of the inaugural Invitational Series in Portland.

He was 20th in the Official World Golf Ranking at the time, having previously achieved a career high of 11th.

“This new opportunity provides me more time to invest and give back to the game by helping it to grow and flourish in my home country of Mexico,” he said.

He made a promising start, taking 11th place in his debut and finished the season in 19th place in the individual standings.

He began 2023 with a tournament win at the PIF Saudi International on the Asian Tour, claiming the event’s first ever wire-to-wire victory, two strokes ahead of runner-up Cameron Young.

In the 2023 LIV Golf League season, he recorded a season-best third place in Bedminster and celebrated Fireballs GC team wins in Tucson and Jeddah.

The win at LIV Golf Hong Kong was 2024’s standout moment for Ancer and preceded a run of three more top-10 finishes as he went on to secure 12th place in the season’s individual standings.

There was also an emotional double for his all-Spanish speaking Fireballs at Valderrama as they won the team event at LIV Golf Andalucia while captain Sergio Garcia took the individual prize.

Away from LIV Golf, Ancer represented Mexico for the second time at the Olympics in August, finishing T35 at Paris 2024.

Ancer was born in McAllen Texas as that’s where his mother’s doctor had recently moved to, but the family home where he was raised was in Reynosa, Mexico.

That had the benefit in later life of allowing Ancer to qualify for dual Mexican-American citizenship.

“Reynosa is all I knew but it was great,” he said.

“My dad took me to the golf course when I was in diapers, and I fell in love with the game.

“I went to school and then whenever we could we’d go to the golf course, play a bunch of soccer growing up and golf, I just loved it.”

You may notice Abraham Ancer relaxing from time to time in a Flecha Azul hat and there’s good reason.

In 2020 Ancer and business partner Aron Marquez launched Flecha Azul, a tequila company that prides itself on making an authentic, additive-free product from 100 percent blue agave plants, sourced from one of the five regions of Mexico that qualify for the genuine ‘tequila’ name.

An early investor who bought in on the company was Hollywood star and golf fan Mark Wahlberg, who is not shy in helping out with promotional work.

“I love those guys,” Wahlberg said at a launch for the product in Nevada.

“For me everything that we do is super aspirational, and I’m so inspired by their story of success and so I wanted to invest in them and help them on their journey to educating people of what real tequila is supposed to taste like.”

Ancer has proved to be a shrewd customer when it comes to business and has investments in several companies, including Black Quail apparel, a clothing brand, and Ombré Men skincare products, both of which were also co-founded by fellow Mexican Marquez.