Ian Woosnam

Ian Woosnam
Personnel
Nation:	Wales
Nickname:	Woosie
Career data
Professional since:	1976
Current tour:	European Seniors Tour
Tournament wins:	49
Major wins :	1 (1991)
Awards:	OBE (1992), ; Winner of the European Tour Order of Merit (1987, 1990), ; European Tour Player of the Year (1987, 1990), ; World Golf Hall of Fame (2017)

Ian Woosnam , OBE (born March 2, 1958 in Oswestry , Shropshire , England ) is a Welsh professional golfer and former world number one. His nickname is "Woosie".

He began playing golf at the unique Llanymynech Golf Club , which is partly in England and partly in Wales . Woosnam is one of the Big Five, a group of world-class golfers who were all born within 12 months, won at least one major and made Europe competitive in the Ryder Cup . The others are Seve Ballesteros , Nick Faldo , Bernhard Langer and Sandy Lyle .

Career

Despite its small size of 1.64 m, Woosnam is a powerful golfer. As an amateur, he played with Sandy Lyle in regional competitions in Shropshire, England . In 1976 he became a professional and started the European Tour in 1979 . After three rather mixed years, the breakthrough came in 1982 with the victory at the Swiss Open . In the following years Woosnam was classified a total of 13 times in the top 10 of the money list , which he won in 1987 and 1990. In 1990 he became the first golfer to break the magical £ 1 million mark in one season worldwide.

After a third place in the 1986 Open Championship , Woosnam achieved his greatest successes in 1991, first place in the world rankings for a total of 50 weeks and his first (and only) major win, at the Masters Tournament in Augusta , Georgia .

His form waned in the late 1990s , but Woosnam almost made a spectacular comeback at the 2001 Open Championship . A mistake by his caddy (one club too many in the golf bag) earned him two penalty strokes in the final round, and in the end he “only” came third and fired the offender. In the same year Woosie won the Wentworth World Match Play Championship and became the first player to win this prestigious trophy in 3 decades.

Woosnam has been a member of the European Ryder Cup team eight times in a row (1983 to 1997), and although he has not won a single match, his record is more than respectable with 14 wins, 12 losses and 5 draws. In 2002 he was vice-captain and in 2006 he led the team as captain of the Ryder Cup to the highest victory on European soil.

In total, Woosnam has won 28 tournaments on the PGA European Tour and many more worldwide. He lives in Jersey today .

Honors

Order of the British Empire 1992
World Golf Hall of Fame 2017

European Tour victories

1982 Ebel Swiss Open
1983 Silk Cut Masters
1984 Scandinavian Enterprise Open
1986 Lawrence Batley International TPC
1987 Trophée Lancôme , Bell's Scottish Open , Cepsa Madrid Open , Jersey Open
1988 Panasonic European Open , Carroll's Irish Open , Volvo PGA Championship
1989 Carroll's Irish Open
1990 Epson Grand Prix of Europe , Bell's Scottish Open , Torras Monte Carlo Open , Amex Med Open
1991 Torras Monte Carlo Golf Open , Fujitsu Mediterranean Open
1992 European Monte Carlo Open
1993 Lancôme Trophy , Murphy's English Open
1994 Dunhill British Masters , Air France Cannes Open
1996 Volvo German Open , Scottish Open , Heineken Classic , Johnnie Walker Classic
1997 Volvo PGA Championship

Other tournament victories including the PGA Tour

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 victory in the individual ranking)
1988 Welsh Pro Championship
1989 World Cup (individual ranking)
1990 Suntory World Match Play Championship
1991 The Masters ( PGA Tour ), USF & G Classic (PGA Tour), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (USA)
1997 Hyundai Motor Masters (South Korea)
2001 Cisco World Match Play Championship

Major championships are in bold .

European Seniors Tour victories

2008 Parkridge Polish Seniors Championship, Russian Seniors Open
2009 Irish Seniors Open
2011 Berenberg Bank Masters
2014 Dutch Senior Open

Results in major championships

competition	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T14	T30	1	T19	T17	T46	T17	T29	T39	T16	T14
US Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T2	T21	T55	T6	T52	CUT	T21	T79	CUT	CUT	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	CUT	CUT	T16	T3	T8	T25	T49	T4	T17	T5	T51	CUT	T49	CUT	T24	T55	T24
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T30	CUT	WD	6th	T31	T48	CUT	T22	T9	CUT	T36	CUT	T29	CUT

competition	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Masters Tournament	T40	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	WD	44	CUT
US Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T68	T3	T37	72	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	T51	CUT	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

competition	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
The Masters	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT
US Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

WD = abandoned
DNP = did not participate
CUT = cut failed
"T" split placement
Green background for victories
Yellow background for top 10.

Team competitions

World Cup (Wales): 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 (winner 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 (draw - Cup defended), 1991, 1993, 1995 (winner), 1997 (winner), vice-captain 2002 (winner), captain 2006 (winner).
Alfred Dunhill Cup (Wales): 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2000
Four Tours World Championship: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990
Seve Trophy : (Great Britain & Ireland): 2000, 2002 (winner)
UBS Cup : 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

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personal data
SURNAME	Woosnam, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	welsh golfer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oswestry , Shropshire , England