Paul Casey (golfer)

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Paul Casey
Paul Casey 2008 US Open cropped.jpg
Personnel
Nation: EnglandEngland England
Nickname: Pc
Career data
Professional since: 2000
Current tour: PGA TOUR
Tournament wins: 17th
Awards: European Tour Player of the Year (2006),
Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award (2001)

Paul Casey (born July 21, 1977 in Cheltenham , England ) is an English professional golfer who plays on the North American PGA TOUR .

Career

After a very successful amateur career, Casey became a professional golfer in 2000 and qualified for the European Tour in 2001 . Already in his fifth tournament he achieved a second place and in his eleventh appearance he won the traditional Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship . Casey finished the season 22nd on the money list and received the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award (best newcomer). After a disappointing second season, he won two tournaments in 2003 and was sixth in the ranking. The following year Casey did not win a tournament, but he was a member of the victorious European Ryder Cup team and won the WGC World Cup in Seville for England with his partner Luke Donald . Casey also took a highly regarded 6th place at the Masters in Augusta . Qualified for the PGA TOUR due to these successes , he began playing there in 2005. But success did not come and so Casey focused more on the European Tour, where he celebrated a tournament victory the end of 2005, which is already counted in the 2006 season, which he another in June 2006 Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles was followed . In September Casey won the traditional HSBC World Match Play Championship against a world class field with Tiger Woods , Jim Furyk , Ernie Els , Retief Goosen etc. and secured the currently highest prize money in professional golf with £ 1 million. In the final, he defeated the American Shaun Micheel by the greatest advantage in the 42-year history of this event. A week later he was one of the most successful players in the European Ryder Cup team and also achieved a hole-in-one as the fifth player in the history of this competition . Casey only missed winning the European Tour Order of Merit 2006 by around € 35,000 against the Irishman Pádraig Harrington in the very last tournament of the season, the Volvo Masters , to which he was badly weakened due to food poisoning . After winning the high-quality BMW PGA Championship in May 2009, he achieved third place in the golf world rankings, his best place to date . The month before, Casey had won his first tournament on the PGA Tour, the Shell Houston Open .

His coach is the renowned golf specialist Peter Kostis , who is also the swing expert at the US broadcaster CBS Sports .

European Tour victories

PGA Tour victories

  • 2009 Shell Houston Open
  • 2018 Valspar Championship
  • 2019 Valspar Championship

Other victories

  • 2011 Shinhan Donghae Open ( Korean Tour )
  • 2012 Telus World Skins Game

Results in major championships

competition 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
The Masters DNP DNP T6 CUT DNP T10 T11 T20 CUT T38 CUT DNP DNP T6 T4 6th T15 CUT
PGA Championship CUT 66 CUT T59 CUT T40 T15 DNP T12 T72 CUT T33 CUT T30 T10 T13 CUT T29 T2
US Open DNP CUT CUT WD 15th T10 T65 CUT T40 CUT DNP T45 T56 T39 CUT 26th T16 T21
The Open Championship CUT CUT T20 CUT 71 T27 T7 T47 T54 CUT T3 DNP T47 T74 CUT T11 T51 T57

DNP = did not take part
CUT = cut not made
"T" split placement
Green background for victory
Yellow background for top 10

Participation in team competitions

See also

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Casey, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English golfer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheltenham , England