name | Lorena Ochoa |
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birth date | November 15, 1981 |
birth place | Guadalajara, Mexico |
death date | |
height | |
nationality | |
residence | Guadalajara, Mexico |
spouse | Andrés Conesa Labastida(m. 2009) |
college | University of Arizona(two years) |
yearpro | 2002 |
retired | 2010 |
tour | LPGA Tour (joined 2003) |
extour | Futures Tour (joined 2002) |
prowins | 30 |
lpgawins | 27 |
letwins | |
jlpgawins | |
klpgawins | |
lagtwins | |
alpgwins | |
futwins | 3 |
otherwins | |
majorwins | 2 |
nabisco | Won: 2008 |
lpga | T3: 2008 |
wusopen | T2: 2007 |
wbritopen | Won: 2007 |
wghofid | |
wghofyear | |
award1 | Futures TourRookie of the Year |
year1 | 2002 |
award2 | Futures TourPlayer of the Year |
year2 | 2002 |
award3 | LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year |
year3 | 2003 |
award4 | LPGA Tour RolexPlayer of the Year |
year4 | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 |
award5 | LPGA Vare Trophy |
year5 | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 |
award6 | LPGA TourMoney Winner |
year6 | 2006, 2007, 2008 |
awardssection | #Honors and awards }} |
An 11-year-old Ochoa approached the professional Rafael Alarcon, 1979 winner of the Canadian Amateur Championship, as he worked on his game at Guadalajara Country Club, where her family lived near the 10th tee. She asked him if he would help her with her game. Alarcon asked her what her goal was, "She said she wanted to be the best player in the world."
As a junior, she captured 22 state events in Guadalajara and 44 national events in Mexico. She won five consecutive titles at the Junior World Golf Championships and in 2000 she enrolled at the University of Arizona in the U.S. on a golf scholarship, where she was a teammate of fellow freshman Natalie Gulbis. While a student in Tucson, Ochoa received regular tutoring and greatly improved her English by watching movies and reading magazines between practice and tournaments.
She was very successful in women's collegiate golf in the next two years, winning the NCAA Player of the Year Awards for 2001 and 2002, finishing runner-up at both the 2001 and 2002 NCAA National Championship and being named to the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) 2001 All-America First team. She won the 2001 Pac-10 Women's Golf Championships, was named Pac-10 Freshman/Newcomer of the Year 2001 and was All Pac-10 First team in 2001 and 2002.
In her sophomore year she had eight tournament wins in ten events she entered and set an NCAA record with seven consecutive victories in her first seven events. She won the Golfstat Cup in both 2001 and 2002. The Cup is given to the player who has the best scoring average versus par with at least 20 full rounds played during a season. setting the single-season NCAA scoring average record as a freshman at 71.33 and beating her own record the next year by just over a stroke per round with a 70.13 average.
In November 2001, Ochoa was presented with Mexico's National Sports Award by Mexican President Vicente Fox. She was the youngest person and first golfer to receive Mexico's highest sporting accolade. In 2006 she was named NCAA Division I Women's Golf Most Outstanding Student Athlete, an award which was bestowed as part of the 25th Anniversary of Women's Championships celebration, taking into account outstanding performances over the past 25 years. She was the recipient of the 2003 Nancy Lopez Award, which is presented annually to the world's most outstanding female amateur golfer.
Nancy Lopez describes Ochoa off the golf course as:
"When you meet her for the second time and she remembers not only your name, but also the slightest detail from the last time you spoke."
In her rookie season on the LPGA Tour in 2003, she had eight top-10 finishes, including runner-up finishes at the Wegmans Rochester and Michelob Light Open at Kingsmill, ending the season as the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year and ninth on the LPGA official money list. In 2004 she won her first two LPGA Tour titles: the Franklin American Mortgage Championship (where she became the first Mexican born player to win on the LPGA Tour) and the Wachovia LPGA Classic. That same year she placed in the top ten in three of the four major championships.
In 2005, Ochoa won the Wegmans Rochester LPGA. In 2006, her first round score of 62 in the Kraft Nabisco Championship tied the record for lowest score ever by a golfer, male or female, in any major tournament. Her playoff loss to Karrie Webb marked her best finish until 2007 in an LPGA major. By the end of the year she won six tournaments, topped the money list and claimed her first LPGA Tour Player of the Year award which goes to the player who gains the most number of points throughout the season based on a formula in which points are awarded for top-10 finishes and are doubled at the LPGA's four major championships and at the season-ending ADT Championship. She also won the LPGA Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average on the LPGA Tour.
Her achievements were recognized outside the sport of golf when Ochoa won the 2006 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award and received the National Sports Prize for the second time.
In April 2007, Ochoa overtook Annika Sörenstam to become the world number one ranked golfer.
In August 2007, Ochoa won her first major championship at the historic home of golf, the Old Course at St. Andrews, with a wire-to-wire win by four shots at the Women's British Open. She won the next two LPGA events, the CN Canadian Women's Open and the Safeway Classic, the first to win three consecutive events since Sörenstam in 2005.
Also in 2007, Ochoa became the first woman ever to earn more than $4,000,000 in a single season, surpassing Sörenstam's previous record of $2,863,904.
In April 2008, Ochoa won her second major championship, this time at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, becoming the first golfer to win consecutive LPGA majors since Sörenstam in 2005. She celebrated this victory in the traditional fashion for the Kraft Nabisco by jumping into the pond on the 18th green. The following week, she won the Corona Championship in her home country by 11 strokes. This gave her the final tournament win she needed to qualify for the World Golf Hall of Fame, although she cannot be inducted until 2012, after she completes ten seasons on the LPGA Tour.
Ochoa is coached by Rafael Alarcon, a Mexican professional. Alarcon finished second in the 1976 Canadian Amateur Championship, won that title in 1979, then turned professional.
"I just want to be honest with all of you. I went to Asia, and after two or three days of being in Thailand, it was really easy to me – it was really clear to see that I didn't want to be out there, you know. I just was thinking of other things. I wanted to get home. I wanted to start working on the foundation. I wanted to be here close to my family."Ochoa said she would still maintain her membership in the LPGA and would play in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational and "I'm going to leave the door open in case I want to come back in one or two years to play a U.S. Open or a Kraft Nabisco."
Lorena Ochoa's successes fuels the family business, the Ochoa Group in Guadalajara, managed by her brother Alejandro Ochoa.
Lorena Ochoa is represented by the Ochoa Sports Management, along with Alarcon and Sophia Sheridan, a Mexican golfer who plays on the LPGA's developmental tour. The Ochoas are confident the list will expand as they attempt to grow the game in Mexico through Ochoa Golf Academies, created by Lorena, Alejandro and Alarcon.
Ochoa Sports Management also operates the LPGA Corona Championship, an annual tour stop in Morelia, Mexico; and the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.
The Lorena Ochoa Foundation operates La Barranca, a primary school in Guadalajara with 250 underprivileged students and an innovative curriculum. In 2008, the foundation opened a high school with 21 freshmen students. The plan, according to foundation director Carmen Bolio, is to add a new class each year and then construct a high school building that's separate from the primary school. She became engaged to her boyfriend Andrés Conesa Labastida, CEO of Aeroméxico, and they married in December 2009. In April 2011, Ochoa announced she was pregnant with the couple's first child.
!No. | !Date | !Tournament | !Winning score | !Margin ofvictory | !Runner(s)-up |
1 | JWA/Michelob Light FUTURES Charity Golf Classic | 4 strokes | Amy Dahle | ||
2 | Ann Arbor FUTURES Classic | 1 stroke | Christina Kim | ||
3 | 2 strokes | Erika Wicoff |
LPGA Majors are shown in bold.
DNP = did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut WD = withdrew LA = low amateur "T" = tied Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.
Dates | |||
26 Feb – Mar 1 | Honda LPGA Thailand | ||
5–8 Mar | HSBC Women's Champions| | Tied 6th | |
20–22 Mar | MasterCard Classic| | Tied 2nd | |
26–29 Mar | J Golf Phoenix LPGA International| | Arizona | Tied 15th |
2–5 Apr | Kraft Nabisco Championship| | California | Tied 12th |
23–26 Apr | Corona Championship| | Winner (26) | |
7–10 May | Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill| | Virginia | 10th |
14–17 May | Sybase Classic| | New Jersey | Tied 19th |
11–14 Jun | LPGA ChampionshipMcDonald's LPGA Championship|| | Maryland | Tied 23rd |
colspan="5">End of first half of the season | |||
2–5 Jul | Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic| | Ohio | Tied 8th |
9–12 Jul | United States Women's Open Championship (golf)U.S. Women's Open|| | Pennsylvania | Tied 26th |
23–26 Jul | Evian Masters| | Tied 40th | |
30 Jul – Aug 2 | Women's British OpenRicoh Women's British Open|| | Tied 28th | |
28–30 Aug | Safeway Classic| | Oregon | Tied 49th |
3–6 Sep | Canadian Women's OpenCN Canadian Women's Open|| | Alberta, Canada | Tied 10th |
17–20 Sep | Samsung World Championship| | California | Tied 4th |
24–27 Sep | CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge| | California | 2nd |
1–4 Oct | Navistar LPGA Classic| | Alabama | Winner (27) |
30 Oct – Nov 1 | Hana Bank-KOLON Championship| | Tied 44th | |
12–15 Nov | Lorena Ochoa Invitational| | Tied 6th | |
19–22 Nov | LPGA Tour Championship| | Texas | 2nd |
2001
2002
2003
2006
2007
2008
2009
Category:Mexican golfers Category:Female golfers Category:Arizona Wildcats women's golfers Category:LPGA Tour golfers Category:Winners of LPGA major golf championships Category:People from Guadalajara Category:1981 births Category:Living people
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Name | Suzann Pettersen |
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fullname | Suzann Pettersen |
nickname | Tutta |
birth date | April 07, 1981 |
birth place | Oslo, Norway |
death date | |
height | |
nationality | |
residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
yearpro | 2000 |
retired | |
tour | LPGA Tour (joined 2003) LET (joined 2001) |
extour | |
prowins | 14 |
lpgawins | 8 |
letwins | 5 |
jlpgawins | |
klpgawins | |
lagtwins | |
alpgwins | |
futwins | |
otherwins | 1 |
majorwins | 1 |
nabisco | T2/2nd: 2007, 2008, 2010 |
lpga | Won: 2007 |
wusopen | T2: 2010 |
dumaurier | |
wbritopen | T14: 2010 |
wghofid | |
wghofyear | |
award1 | LET Rookie of the Year |
year1 | 2001 |
awardssection | }} |
!No. | !Date | !Tournament | !Winning score | !To par | !Margin ofvictory | !Runner-up | share (Euro>€) |
Open de France Dames | align=center | ||||||
Playoff | Becky Morgan | ||||||
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9 strokes | Nikki Garrett | ||||||
Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open | align=center | ||||||
6 strokes | Amy Yang | ||||||
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5 strokes | Marianne Skarpnord | ||||||
Ladies Irish Open | align=center | ||||||
6 strokes | Azahara Muñoz |
!No. | !Date | !Tournament | !Winning score | !To par | !Margin ofvictory | !Runner(s)-up | share (United States dollar>$) |
Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill | align=center | ||||||
Playoff | Jee Young Lee | ||||||
McDonald's LPGA Championship | align=center | ||||||
1 stroke | Karrie Webb | ||||||
Longs Drugs Challenge | align=center | ||||||
Playoff | Lorena Ochoa | ||||||
Hana Bank-KOLON Championship | align=center | ||||||
1 stroke | Eun-Hee Ji | ||||||
Honda LPGA Thailand | align=center | ||||||
1 stroke | Laura Davies | ||||||
CN Canadian Women's Open | align=center | ||||||
5 strokes | Momoko Ueda Morgan Pressel Ai Miyazato Angela Stanford Karrie Webb | ||||||
Sybase Match Play Championship | Cristie Kerr | ||||||
Safeway Classic | align=center | ||||||
Playoff | Na Yeon Choi |
Category:Norwegian golfers Category:LPGA Tour golfers Category:Ladies European Tour golfers Category:Winners of LPGA major golf championships Category:Solheim Cup competitors for Europe Category:People from Oslo Category:People from Orlando, Florida Category:1981 births Category:Living people
fr:Suzann Pettersen no:Suzann Pettersen pl:Suzann Pettersen fi:Suzann Pettersen sv:Suzann PettersenThis text is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA License. This text was originally published on Wikipedia and was developed by the Wikipedia community.
Name | Greg Norman |
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Fullname | Gregory John Norman AO |
Nickname | The Great White Shark, The Shark |
Birth date | February 10, 1955 |
Birth place | Mount Isa, Australia |
Height | |
Nationality | |
Spouse | Laura Andrassy (1981–2007),Chris Evert (2008–2009),Kirsten Kutner (2010–present) |
Children | Morgan Leigh, Gregory |
Residence | Hobe Sound, Florida, U.S. |
Yearpro | 1976 |
Tour | PGA TourEuropean TourChampions Tour |
Prowins | 88 |
Pgawins | 20 |
Eurowins | 14 (tied 15th all time) |
Auswins | 31 (3rd all time) |
Japwins | 2 |
Otherwins | 23 |
Majorwins | 2 |
Masters | 2nd/T2: 1986, 1987, 1996 |
Usopen | 2nd: 1984, 1995 |
Open | Won: 1986, 1993 |
Pga | 2nd: 1986, 1993 |
Award1 | PGA Tour of AustraliaOrder of Merit winner |
Year1 | 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988 |
Award2 | European TourOrder of Merit winner |
Year2 | 1982 |
Award3 | PGA Tourleading money winner |
Year3 | 1986, 1990, 1995 |
Award4 | PGA Player of the Year |
Year4 | 1995 |
Award5 | PGA TourPlayer of the Year |
Year5 | 1995 |
Award6 | Vardon Trophy |
Year6 | 1989, 1990, 1994 |
Award7 | Byron Nelson Award |
Year7 | 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995 |
Award8 | Old Tom Morris Award |
Year8 | 2008 |
Award9 | Charlie Bartlett Award |
Year9 | 2008 |
wghofid | 1087 |
wghofyear | 2001 }} |
In 1986 Norman won two regular PGA Tour events; the Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational and the Kemper Open (for the second time), but 1986 is remembered for the ''Norman Slam'' or the ''Saturday Slam.'' Norman held the lead for all four majors through 54 holes. This meant he played in the final group for every major and had perhaps the best chance in history of winning the Grand Slam. Unfortunately for Norman he was only able to win the Open Championship at Turnberry. At the Masters Norman held the lead with Seve Ballesteros through 9 holes on Sunday. Norman double-bogeyed the par 4 10th and fell out of the lead. With Norman seemingly out of the contention the focus moved towards Jack Nicklaus, Tom Kite and Ballesteros. By playing behind the leaders, Norman was able to rejoin the pack and eventually tie for the lead with Jack Nicklaus by birdieing the 17th. He nailed his tee shot on the 18th, but pushed his approach shot to the green into the spectators and made bogey when a par would have gotten him into a playoff. At the U.S. Open he also faltered, shooting a 75 on the final day at Shinnecock Hills. He finally broke through at the Open Championship for his first major title. Norman shot a brilliant 63 on Friday and survived the weekend's brutal conditions to win by 5 shots. He was again in contention at the PGA Championship showing amazing consistency never before seen during all four majors. Once more Norman found himself in the lead at Inverness until he stumbled on Sunday again. A clear favourite for the title, he shot a 76. The tournament is famous for Bob Tway's hole-out from the greenside bunker on the 72nd hole. Tway eventually won by two strokes over Norman. 1986 established Norman as one of, if not the best player in the world; he topped the Australian Order of Merit for the fifth time and the PGA Tour money list for the first time. Norman ended the year officially ranked number 1 in the brand new Official World Golf Rankings.
The following year Norman once again found himself tied for the lead at the Masters. After an even-par 72 he found himself in a playoff with Larry Mize. On the second extra playoff hole, Norman hit his approach on the green with a chance at birdie, Mize on the other hand bailed out right of the green. Facing one of the most difficult chips on the course, Mize miraculously holed the 45-yard chip. Norman missed his birdie effort and came up short for the second year in a row. Norman had a rough 1987 which featured no wins on either the PGA or European tours. He enjoyed mild success between 1987 and 1989 including four wins in Australia in 1988. He won the MCI Heritage Golf Classic at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in April 1988, inspired by a leukemia-stricken teenager who got his wish to meet Norman and watch him play; he was only supposed to watch him for two rounds, but Norman arranged for him to stay until the tournament's completion, after which Norman gave him the winner's trophy. At the 1989 Masters Tournament, he came to the 72nd hole ultimately needing a par to make a playoff or a birdie to win, but he bogeyed the hole to miss a playoff, after unconventionally teeing off with a one-iron. He had another great chance at a major in 1989 this time at the Open Championship. He played brilliantly in a final-round 64 to force his way into a playoff with Mark Calcavecchia. The two players came to the home hole, the fourth in a four hole playoff, with Norman level with Calcavecchia. Calcavecchia sliced his drive badly to the right and Norman hit a tremendous drive down the middle of the fairway. Unlucky for Norman his drive bounced to the right and bounded into a fairway bunker 310 yards from the tee. Once more Norman went for broke from the bunker and the ball smashed into the bunker's face and limped into another. Norman thinned his next shot and the ball careered out of bounds. That was the end as Calcavecchia took home the title.In 1990 Norman would miss the cut at the Masters for the first time in his career, but he did win the Doral-Ryder Open in March and Jack Nicklaus's Memorial Tournament for the first time (Norman was the 54 hole leader and the final round was cancelled due to rain, giving him the victory). He also lost two tournaments in ways which directly echoed his losses to Mize and Tway and further enhanced his reputation of being unlucky at winning golf tournaments. He was leading the Nestle Invitational in Orlando, Florida by one shot until Robert Gamez holed out a 170+ yard shot over water on the 72nd hole to defeat Norman. Within a few weeks, Norman was tied for the lead at the USF&G; Classic in Louisiana when David Frost holed out a greenside sand shot on the 72nd hole, to beat Norman by one. It might have not been the strongest year in the majors for Norman but he finished atop the PGA Tour money list for the second time in his career along with winning the Vardon Trophy and Byron Nelson Award. Later that year he won the Australian Masters in his home country of Australia for a final and record sixth time.
The next year at The Players Championship, Norman obliterated the records for the lowest 18, 54 and 72-hole scores. After opening with a course-record-tying 63, he followed with three 67s to give him a 24-under 264 total – six strokes better than any previous winner.
Norman started 1995 with a third place finish at the Masters and again found himself with the 54 hole lead at the U.S. Open. Even though he held the lead for most of the day he was over taken by Corey Pavin on the back nine. In June, Norman won his second Memorial Tournament, a victory that marked the beginning of one of his best years on the PGA Tour. After his win at the Canon Greater Hartford Open, aided by a chip-in in for eagle on #14 in the final round, Norman overtook Nick Price as the number one golfer in the world. Later, he won the NEC World Series of Golf, holing a 70 foot birdie chip shot to defeat Price in a playoff on the first hole. He ultimately held the #1 ranking for 331 weeks in his career. He also topped the money list for the third time and was named PGA Player of the Year. 1995 is arguable Norman's greatest year even without winning a major title.
The following year, Norman came into the 1996 Masters Tournament having already won at the Doral-Ryder Open (though he also missed the cut at the Players Championship and the Bayhill Invitational beforehand). He opened his championship with a course record 63 which propelled him to the top of the leaderboard. He held the lead through three days for play. With 5 previous top five finishes at Augusta, and a 6 shot lead. Norman's long awaited Masters victory seem to be evident. In one of the worst meltdowns in major championship history (along with Ken Venturi shooting a final round 80 in 1956 Masters to lose by one shot, and Rory McIlroy's collapse, also shooting an 80 in 2011), he took a six-stroke lead into the final round and lost the tournament to Nick Faldo by five strokes, shooting a Sunday 78 to Faldo's 67. Norman's 6 shot lead evaporated quickly with 3 straight bogeys on holes 9–11, and after Norman found water on the 12th hole, resulting in a double bogey, playing companion Faldo had taken the lead. Norman tried to give himself a chance down the stretch including an eagle chip on the 15th which lipped out of the hole dropping Norman to his knees. Maybe the most infamous shot of his career was on the very next hole; a hooked tee shot into the water ending any chance at victory. ESPN, as part of their "ESPN25" 25th-anniversary celebration, ranked Norman's 1996 Masters disaster as the third-biggest sports choke of the last 25 years. Despite the losses, though, Norman still has 30 top-ten finishes in the majors. And, amazingly, he came back to lead the very next major, the 1996 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills, after 36 holes, though he faded on the weekend.
In January 1997, Norman won his largest winner's check to date, 1 million dollars, when he won the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf (the precursor to the WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship), making birdie on the last hole to defeat Scott Hoch in the 36 hole final. Then Norman won twice in 1997, but they were his last. In 1998 Norman missed part of the season after suffering hip and shoulder injuries. Norman did make one more run at the Masters in 1999, battling José María Olazábal on the final day, and even briefly leading the tournament after an eagle on 13, before fading to finish 3rd behind the winner Olazabal and Davis Love III. After this, Norman's name virtually disappeared from golf leaderboards and Norman only showed an occasional flash of his previous brilliance, perhaps due to age, shaken confidence, the new technology, the emergence of Tiger Woods and other young golfers, and/or Norman's increasing involvement in business ventures.
In July 2008, despite not playing in a major for three years, Norman finished nine over par in a tie for third at The Open Championship after being the 54 hole leader by two strokes. He set the record in becoming the oldest 54-hole leader in a major championship (broken the following year by Tom Watson, also in the Open) and earned an automatic bid to the 2009 Masters . His trip to the Masters was his first since 2002. Though he missed the cut, he said he was happy to give his (now former) wife and tennis legend Chris Evert an opportunity to experience "golf's Wimbledon" firsthand.
Norman played his warm up to the 2009 Masters Tournament at the Shell Houston Open on the PGA Tour at the Redstone Golf Club where he made the half-way cut. It was only the fourth cut he has made on the PGA Tour since 2004.
Though neither was in a major or PGA Tour event, Norman had two notable faceoffs with Tiger Woods. At the 1998 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia, Norman and Woods played a close match, with Woods winning 1-up. Under different circumstances, this could have been a very significant match beyond the star power involved, but since the International Team (Norman) won by a lopsided margin over the U.S. Team (Woods), this match had little effect on the final result, though it was a riveting match between the former and current #1 players in the world. (Besides the Woods match, the International Team's victory over the U.S. Team in Norman's home country was one of the great moments of Norman's career, and to date still the only win for the International Team in Presidents Cup matches). Norman got payback of a sort in the 2001 Skins Game, in which he not only defeated Woods (as well as Colin Montgomerie and Jesper Parnevik), he also was the only person in Skins Game history to sweep all the prize money (1 million dollars) and leave the other players, including Woods, empty handed. This was the only year that the Skins Game was contended under the controversial validation format.
After Norman's surprise success at the Open Championship, he continued his strong play, finishing in a tie for fifth at the Senior British Open Championship and fourth in the U.S. Senior Open after being the only player to shoot 72 or lower all four days. He finished 2008 playing in four majors and finishing in the top ten in all of them.
In the 2009 Senior British Open Championship, he held the 54-hole lead after playing three consistent rounds, but faltered on Sunday to finish tied for sixth, 3 shots behind eventual winner Loren Roberts.
Norman won the PGA Tour of Australia's Order of Merit six times: 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, and 1988. He won the European Tour's Order of Merit in 1982, and topped the PGA Tour's Money List in 1986, 1990, and 1995. He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average on the PGA Tour three times: 1989, 1990, and 1994; and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001. His dominance over his peers (despite his comparative lack of success in the majors) was probably best expressed in the Official World Golf Rankings: Norman finished the season on top of the ranking list on seven occasions, in 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996 and 1997, and was second at the end of 1988, 1993 and 1994.
In 1986, Norman was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award, a feat he replicated in 1993 to join Muhammad Ali and Björn Borg as multiple winners (They have since been joined by Roger Federer). He received the 2008 Old Tom Morris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, GCSAA's highest honor, at the 2008 Golf Industry Show in Orlando. Norman is a member of The Environmental Institute for Golf's board of trustees and also chairs The Institute's advisory council. He was the also the recipient of the Golf Writers Association of America's 2008 Charlie Bartlett Award.
Articulate and with a friendly image, Norman has for years been a spokesman for companies including General Motors-Holden, which developed a Commodore model named after him. His own businesses interests include MacGregor Golf and Greg Norman Golf Course Design. He continues to play tournaments, his growing business interests take up an increasing amount of his time. His personal wealth is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars.
In Norman's heyday, driving long and incredibly straight off the tee similar to that of Nick Price his contemporary with a persimmon (wood) clubhead, he intimidated most of his fellow professionals. However, with the advent of the "metal-wood" by TaylorMade and other subsequent advances in golf ball and golf club technology (especially the variable face depth driver), his dominance was significantly diminished, as the "new technology" enabled less precise ball-strikers to achieve equal or better accuracy and distance. Norman is regarded, aside from Jack Nicklaus, as being the greatest driver of the golf ball in golf history.
Environmentalist and scientists have been critical of the environmental impact of some of these designs. In LaoLao Bay, a survey reports that after 20 years of construction, several negative impacts to the nearby environment have appeared, including destruction of the coral reefs.
While married to Laura, Norman commissioned the 228 ft luxury yacht ''Aussie Rules'', built by the Australian ferry builder Austal/Oceanfast. The boat held four sports boats, including a 60 ft custom sportfisherman, along with stowage for related gear: 200 rods. Built of aluminium, she cruised at 15 knots with a range of 8,000 miles. The boat cost $70 million, but resulted in Austal making an A$18 million loss. The boat was quickly sold by Norman in 2004 for a rumored $77 million to the founder of Blockbuster Video, Wayne Huizenga.
Norman was also an early customer for the Boeing Business Jet, which he had ordered with custom fitted bedroom and office. However, the downturn in the Asian markets adversely affected his golf course design business, and he later cancelled the order after acting as an ambassador for Boeing. He eventually retained his Gulfstream V.
In September 2007, Norman announced he and former tennis champion Chris Evert would be married. The couple became engaged on 9 December 2007 and on 28 June 2008 were married in The Bahamas. On 2 October 2009 Evert and Norman announced they were separating, saying in a statement that they "...will remain friends and supportive of one another's family." Norman filed for divorce on 8 December 2009 at a courthouse in Florida.
In October 2010, Norman announced his engagement to interior decorator Kirsten Kutner. The couple married on the weekend of 6 November 2010 on Necker Island.
Legend |
Major championships (2) |
Other PGA Tour (18) |
!No. | !Date | !Tournament | !Winning Score | !Margin ofVictory | !Runner(s)-up |
1 | Kemper Open | 5 strokes | Mark O'Meara | ||
2 | Canadian Open | 2 strokes | Jack Nicklaus | ||
3 | Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational | 7 strokes | Dan Pohl | ||
4 | Kemper Open | Playoff | Larry Mize | ||
5 | The Open Championship | 5 strokes | Gordon J. Brand | ||
6 | MCI Heritage Golf Classic | 1 stroke | |||
7 | 2 points | Clarence Rose | |||
8 | Greater Milwaukee Open | 3 strokes | Andy Bean | ||
9 | Doral-Ryder Open | Playoff | Tim Simpson, Mark Calcavecchia, Paul Azinger | ||
10 | Memorial Tournament | 1 stroke | Payne Stewart | ||
11 | Canadian Open | Playoff | Bruce Lietzke | ||
12 | Doral-Ryder Open | 4 strokes | Paul Azinger, Mark McCumber | ||
13 | The Open Championship | 2 strokes | Nick Faldo | ||
14 | The Players Championship | 4 strokes | Fuzzy Zoeller | ||
15 | Memorial Tournament | 4 strokes | Mark Calcavecchia, David Duval, Steve Elkington | ||
16 | Canon Greater Hartford Open | 2 strokes | Dave Stockton, Kirk Triplett, Grant Waite | ||
17 | NEC World Series of Golf | Playoff | Billy Mayfair, Nick Price | ||
18 | Doral-Ryder Open | 2 strokes | |||
19 | FedEx St. Jude Classic | 1 stroke | Dudley Hart | ||
20 | NEC World Series of Golf | 4 strokes | Phil Mickelson |
PGA Tour playoff record (4–8)
!No.!!Year!!Tournament!!Opponent(s)!!Result | |||||
1 | Bay Hill Classic | Mike Nicolette | Lost to par on first extra hole | ||
2 | Fuzzy Zoeller | Lost by 8 shots in 18-hole playoff: 67–75 | |||
3 | 1984 | Western Open | Tom Watson (golfer)>Tom Watson | Lost to birdie on third extra hole | |
4 | Kemper Open | Larry Mize | Won with par on sixth extra hole | ||
5 | Masters Tournament | Seve Ballesteros, , Larry Mize | Lost to birdie on second extra hole, Ballesteros eliminated after first extra hole | ||
6 | Independent Insurance Agent Open | Curtis Strange | Lost to birdie on third extra hole | ||
7 | 1988 | Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic | Seve Ballesteros, David Frost (golfer) | All three others lost to Ballesteros (birdie) on first extra hole | |
8 | [[The Open Championship | Mark Calcavecchia, Wayne Grady | Lost to Calcavecchia in four-hole playoff:Calcavecchia (4–3–3–3), Grady (4–4–4–4), Norman (3-3-5-x) | ||
9 | Doral-Ryder Open | Paul Azinger, Mark Calcavecchia, Tim Simpson | Won with eagle on first extra hole | ||
10 | Canadian Open | Bruce Lietzke | Won with birdie on second extra hole | ||
11 | PGA Championship | Paul Azinger | Lost on second extra hole | ||
12 | NEC World Series of Golf | Billy Mayfair, Nick Price | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
Legend |
Major championships (2) |
Other European Tour (12) |
!No. | !Date | !Tournament | !Winning Score | !Margin ofVictory | !Runner(s)-up |
1 | 11 Jun 1977 | Martini International | 3 strokes | Simon Hobday | |
2 | 28 May 1979 | Martini International | 1 stroke | Antonio Garrido (golfer) | |
3 | 11 May 1980 | [[Paco Rabanne Open de France | 10 strokes | Ian Mosey | |
4 | 6 Jul 1980 | Scandinavian Enterprise Open | 3 strokes | ||
5 | 17 May 1981 | Martini International | 1 stroke | Bernhard Langer | |
6 | 31 May 1981 | Dunlop Masters | 4 strokes | Graham Marsh | |
7 | 13 Jun 1982 | Dunlop Masters | 8 strokes | Bernhard Langer | |
8 | 10 Jul 1982 | State Express English Classic | 1 stroke | Brian Marchbank | |
9 | 22 Aug 1982 | Benson & Hedges International Open | 1 stroke | ||
10 | 20 Jul 1986 | The Open Championship | 5 strokes | Gordon J Brand | |
11 | 14 Sep 1986 | Panasonic European Open | 1 stroke | ||
12 | 22 May 1988 | Lancia Italian Open | 1 stroke | Craig Parry | |
13 | 18 Jul 1993 | The Open Championship | 2 strokes | Nick Faldo | |
14 | 6 Feb 1994 | Johnnie Walker Classic | 1 stroke | Fred Couples |
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{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- style="background:#eee;" !align="left"|Tournament !1990 !1991 !1992 !1993 !1994 !1995 !1996 !1997 !1998 !1999 |- |The Masters | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T6 | style="text-align:center;"|T31 | style="text-align:center;"|T18 | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T3 | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|2 | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|3 |- |U.S. Open | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T5 | style="text-align:center;"|WD | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T6 | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|2 | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T10 | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|CUT |- |The Open Championship | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T6 | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T9 | style="text-align:center;"|18 | style="text-align:center; background:#0f0;"|1 | style="text-align:center;"|T11 | style="text-align:center;"|T15 | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T7 | style="text-align:center;"|T36 | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|6 |- |PGA Championship | style="text-align:center;"|T19 | style="text-align:center;"|T32 | style="text-align:center;"|T15 | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|2 | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T4 | style="text-align:center;"|T20 | style="text-align:center;"|T17 | style="text-align:center;"|T13 | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|CUT |}
{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- style="background:#eee;" !align="left"|Tournament !2000 !2001 !2002 !2003 !2004 !2005 !2006 !2007 !2008 !2009 |- |The Masters | style="text-align:center;"|T11 | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center;"|T36 | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|CUT |- |U.S. Open | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|T59 | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP |- |The Open Championship | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|T18 | style="text-align:center;"|T18 | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center;"|T60 | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|T3 | style="text-align:center;"|CUT |- |PGA Championship | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center;"|T29 | style="text-align:center;"|T53 | style="text-align:center;"|CUT | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP | style="text-align:center;"|DNP |}
DNP = Did not play WD = Withdrew CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" indicates a tie for a place Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
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