IAN WOOSNAM

'Ian Woosnam'

'Personal Information'
'Birth'	Oswestry, England
'Height'	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
'Weight'	160 lb (73 kg)
'Nationality'
'Residence'	Channel Islands, Jersey
'College'	None
Career
'Turned Pro'	1976
'Current tour'	European Tour (joined 1979)
'Professional wins'	44 (PGA Tour: 2, European Tour: 28, Other: 14)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 1
Masters	'Won' 1991
U.S. Open	T2: 1989
British Open	T3: 1986, 2001
PGA Championship	6th: 1989
Awards
European Tour Order of Merit Winner	1987, 1990

'Ian Harold Woosnam' OBE (born 2 March, 1958) is a British professional golfer from Wales. He was born in the town of Oswestry in England, and his family lived in the nearby village of St Martin's in Shropshire. He started playing at the unique Llanymynech Golf Club - which is partly in Wales and partly in England. Woosnam was one of the "Big Five" generation of European golfers, all born within 12 months of one another, who all won majors, and made Europe competitive in the Ryder Cup. His peers in this group were Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer and Sandy Lyle. He now lives in Jersey.

Contents

Career outline

European Tour wins (28)

PGA Tour wins (2)

Other wins (14)

Major Championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

Team appearances

Notes

See also

External links

Career outline

Woosnam is short for a male golfer at 5 ft 4½ in (1.64 m), but he is a powerful hitter. He played as an amateur in regional competitions in the English county of Shropshire alongside Sandy Lyle. Woosnam turned professional in 1976 and first played the European Tour in 1979. After three modest seasons his career took off in 1982 when he won the Swiss Open and came eighth on the Order of Merit (prize money list). He also finished in the top ten on the Order of Merit every year from 1983 to 1991 and again in 1993, 1996, and 1997, making thirteen times in all. In 1987 and 1990 he was first, and in the former year he set a world record for global tournament earnings of £1,062,662.
Woosnam was 3rd in the 1986 Open Championship. In 1991, he reached the top of the Official World Golf Rankings, eventually spending a total of 50 weeks as World Number 1. In the same year he emulated his British rivals, Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo, by winning the US Masters; the first person representing Wales to ever win a major. He has won 28 official money events on the European Tour and many other events around the world.
In the late 1990s his form began to fade, but he nearly made a spectacular comeback at The Open Championship in 2001, when he finished third despite suffering a two-stroke penalty for starting the final round with 15 clubs in his bag instead of the allowable maximum of 14. He fired his caddie, Miles Byrne, two weeks later when, after a night drinking on the town, he failed to turn up.^[1] That same year Woosnam became the first player to capture the Wentworth World Match Play Championship in three decades.
Woosnam was a member of eight consecutive European Ryder Cup teams from 1983 to 1997. Despite not winning a singles match he accumulated an excellent overall record of 14 wins, 12 losses and 5 halves in 31 matches. He was a vice captain for the 2002 European team and was elected as captain for the 2006 Ryder Cup, leading Europe to victory by thrashing U.S.A. 18½-9½. This will be a one-off assignment as Nick Faldo was elected for 2008 at the same time.
Woosnam was awarded an O.B.E. in the 2007 New Years Honours List.

European Tour wins (28)

★ 1982 (1) Ebel Swiss Open

★ 1983 (1) Silk Cut Masters

★ 1984 (1) Scandinavian Enterprise Open

★ 1986 (1) Lawrence Batley International T.P.C.

★ 1987 (4) Jersey Open, Cepsa Madrid Open, Bell's Scottish Open, Trophée Lancôme

★ 1988 (3) Volvo PGA Championship, Carroll's Irish Open, Panasonic European Open

★ 1989 (1) Carroll's Irish Open

★ 1990 (4) Amex Med Open, Torras Monte Carlo Open, Bell's Scottish Open, Epson Grand Prix of Europe

★ 1991 (2) Fujitsu Mediterranean Open, Torras Monte Carlo Golf Open

★ 1992 (1) European Monte Carlo Open

★ 1993 (2) Murphy's English Open, Trophée Lancôme

★ 1994 (2) Air France Cannes Open, Dunhill British Masters

★ 1996 (4) Johnnie Walker Classic, Heineken Classic, Scottish Open, Volvo German Open

★ 1997 (1) Volvo PGA Championship
The Masters was not an official European Tour event in 1991. Note that the list of Woosnam's European Tour wins on the European Tour's official site includes several items which are not individual wins in official tournaments.

PGA Tour wins (2)

★ 1991 'The Masters', USF&G Classic

Other wins (14)

★ 1979 News of the World Under-23 Match Play Championship

★ 1982 Cacharel Under-25 Championship

★ 1985 Zambian Open

★ 1986 '555' Kenya Open

★ 1987 Suntory World Match Play Championship, Hong Kong Open, Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa), World Cup (team (with David Llewellyn) and individual)

★ 1988 Welsh Pro Championship

★ 1989 World Cup (individual)

★ 1990 Suntory World Match Play Championship

★ 1991 PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States)

★ 1997 Hyundai Motor Masters (South Korea)

★ 2001 Cisco World Match Play Championship

Major Championships

Wins (1)

'Year	'Championship	'54 Holes	'Winning Score	'Margin of Victory	'Runners Up
1991	The Masters	1 shot lead	-11 (72-66-67-72=277)	1 stroke	José María Olazábal

Results timeline

Tournament	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T14
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T2
The Open Championship	CUT	CUT	CUT	T16	T3	T8	T25	T49
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T30	CUT	WD	6

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Masters Tournament	T30	'1'	T19	T17	T46	T17	T29	T39	T16	T14
U.S. Open	T21	T55	T6	T52	CUT	T21	T79	CUT	CUT	DNP
The Open Championship	T4	T17	T5	T51	CUT	T49	CUT	T24	T57	T24
PGA Championship	T31	T48	CUT	T22	T9	CUT	T36	CUT	T29	CUT

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Masters Tournament	T40	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T68	T3	T37	72	DNP	CUT	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	T51	CUT	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP

DNP = did not play

CUT = missed the half way cut

WD = withdrew

"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

★ World Cup (representing Wales): 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 (team and individual winner), 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003.

★ Hennessy Cognac Cup: 1982 (winner), 1984

★ Ryder Cup: 1983, 1985 (winner), 1987 (winner), 1989 (tied - cup retained), 1991, 1993, 1995 (winner), 1997 (winner). Vice Captain 2002 (winner), Captain 2006 (winner).

★ Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Wales): 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2000

★ Four Tours World Championship: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990

★ Seve Trophy: (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2000, 2002 (winner)

★ UBS Cup: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

★ Royal Trophy (representing Europe): 2006 (winners)

Notes

1. Woosnam sacks wayward caddie - BBC Sport

See also

★ Golfers with most European Tour wins

★ Llanymynech Golf Club

External links

★ Official site

★ Profile on the European Tour's official site

★ Profile on the PGA Tour's official site

★ Llanymynech Golf Club