Richard ‘Rico’ Hoey is an American-Filipino professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has two wins as a professional and earned his PGA Tour card in 2023 after finishing fourth on the Korn Ferry Tour points list.
Get to know Hoey better with these 15 facts…
Rico Hoey Facts:
1. Hoey was born on 19 September 1995 in Manila, Philippines.
2. He moved to Rancho Cucamonga, California with his family at a young age.
3. Along with his sisters Kay and Simone, who both played golf in college, Hoey learned the sport at Goose Creek Golf Club in Mira Loma, where fellow PGA Tour pro Sahith Theegala also grew up playing at.
4. Hoey says Theegala used to call him his “hero” when the duo were rising junior golfers. “He’s a genuine person who makes it a lot of fun to be around him,” Fisher said of Theegala in an interview with Fore Magazine in 2023. “His peers, the people around our golf course, everybody is pulling for him. You just want him to be successful.”
5. Hoey enjoyed success as a junior golfer, winning the 2012 Callaway Junior World Championship, where he beat future PGA Tour pro Beau Hassler.
6. He concluded his junior career at Rancho Cucamonga High School by winning the 2013 CIF Southern Section Boys’ Golf individual title.
7. Hoey enrolled at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2014, where he majored in history. He had one of the best freshman seasons in USC history, finishing the year with a 71.36 stroke average and earning Pac-12 Freshman of the Year honors.
8. He continued to have success in college, winning the SCGA Amateur Championship and finishing second in the NCAA D1 Championship in 2016.
9. Hoey turned professional in 2017 and began playing on the PGA Tour Canada, where he won his first pro event in his rookie year, claiming the season-ending Freedom 55 Financial Championship title by one stroke over Jordan Niebrugge. That win earned him status to play on the 2018 Web.com Tour (now Korn Ferry Tour).
10. After grinding on the developmental circuit for several seasons, Hoey said he almost gave up professional golf. “I remember always joking around with my girlfriend, saying, ‘I’m going to fire up the LinkedIn’. And she’s like, ‘you won’t’. I’m so glad everyone talked me out of that.”
11. He says he rediscovered his love…
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