Scott Strange is an Australian professional golfer who has played on the Asian and European tours. After struggling early in his professional career, he found his footing on the Asian Tour, eventually making his way to Europe. He qualified for th...
Published: 9/5/2009 3:00:57 AM
Nancy Lopez is one of the most celebrated golfers of all time. From the time she played golf as an amateur through her career as a professional on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour, Lopez was a winner. She won her first major champion...
Published: 9/3/2009 3:01:16 AM
Bobby Jones is one of the most legendary golfers to ever play the game. While he never turned professional, instead golfing as an amateur during his playing days, Jones remains the only golfer to have won the grand slam -- winning golf's four maj...
Published: 9/3/2009 3:01:15 AM
Nick Dougherty is a player on the PGA European Tour. Born on May 24, 1982, in Liverpool, England, Dougherty won his first golf tournament when he was 6 years old. After he won the inaugural Faldo Junior Series in 1997, Nick Faldo took him under h...
Published: 9/3/2009 3:01:12 AM
Takashi Kanemoto is a Japanese golfer who plays on the Japan Golf Tour. Although Kanemoto has had marginal success during his professional golf career, he saw more success in 2009 than in any other previous season he had on the Japan Golf Tour.
Published: 9/2/2009 3:01:09 AM
Adam Blyth is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour. He was born on Oct. 24, 1981. He is originally from England but moved to the small town of Yeppoon, Australia, as a child.
As of 2009, he is regarded as an up-an-comin...
Published: 8/31/2009 3:01:07 AM
Rafael Echenique's stunning finish at the 2009 BMW Open in Germany marked him as one of the bright young stars on the European tour. He clinched second place with a 10 under par final day, including a double eagle on the par-5 18th. While not wel...
Published: 8/31/2009 3:00:59 AM
Hall of Famer Bobby Jones won 13 titles during his career and became the first golfer to win all four Grand Slams. Jones, after his retirement, played an important role in golf culture in his home state of Georgia.
Published: 8/29/2009 3:01:01 AM
Estanislao "Tano" Goya is one of the up-and-coming golfers in the world in 2009. Born in 1988 in Argentina, Goya turned professional in 2007 at the age of 19. By the time he turned 21 in 2009, Goya had won tournaments on three tours, including th...
Published: 8/29/2009 3:01:00 AM
David Gleeson is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour (as of 2009). He began his career as a champion amateur player in Australia before eventually finding a home on the Asian professional circuit. After struggling early ...
Published: 8/28/2009 3:01:11 AM
Many golfers who pick up their clubs and muddle through a round of 18 holes can't fathom the idea of ever being good enough to get paid to play as a professional golfer. While the number of touring pros on the major tours around the world (U.S., ...
Published: 8/28/2009 3:01:10 AM
Andrew Dodt is an Australian who golfed as an amateur on the Golf Australia national team before turning professional in 2007. Some of his first success as a golfer came in 2003, when he topped the Australian Junior Order of Merit. He has been a ...
Published: 8/26/2009 3:01:18 AM
Professional golfers, like athletes in almost every professional sport, land sponsorship deals with all sorts of companies. A company like Nike Golf that thinks it might get some much-needed publicity from a person can make a deal for as much or ...
Published: 8/26/2009 3:01:12 AM
Danny Willett is a professional golfer from England. He has played and won extensively as an amateur, ranking as the world's No. 1 amateur in 2008. He turned professional in 2008 and has played on the top-tier European Tour, aspiring to the PGA ...
Published: 8/26/2009 3:01:03 AM
Steven Conran is a professional golfer from Australia who competes primarily on the Japan Golf Tour. He turned professional in 1990 and struggled during the first few years of his career. But a tournament win in 1995 helped him gain his footing, ...
Published: 8/25/2009 3:11:32 AM
Taco Remkes is a professional golfer from the Netherlands. He has played professionally since 2004 as a 19-year-old, and has won five events as of August 2009. Remkes has had a varied career as both a professional and an amateur and has played on...
Published: 8/25/2009 3:11:32 AM
David Lynn is a professional golfer from England. He has enjoyed varying levels of success on both the amateur and professional levels, and has won two events as a pro across the European Tour and the Challenge Tour. He has featured in the top 10...
Published: 8/25/2009 3:11:25 AM
Robert Coles is a golfer from England. He turned professional in 1994 at the age of 21 and has enjoyed varying levels of success as both an amateur and a professional. Though never playing in the PGA Tour, Coles has won three events over stints o...
Published: 8/25/2009 3:11:24 AM
Andrew McLardy is a professional golfer from South Africa. At this writing he has won five events as a professional, including the European Tour, the PGA Tour and the Sunshine Tour. He enjoyed a moderate level of success before turning profession...
Published: 8/25/2009 3:11:24 AM
Damien McGrane is a professional golfer from Ireland. He has played professionally since 1991 on various tours, most notably on the European Tour. He has accumulated one win on the European Tour, as well as four other wins on smaller tours. McGra...
Published: 8/25/2009 3:11:22 AM
Richard Finch is a professional golfer from England. He has enjoyed varying levels of success as both an amateur and a professional. He turned pro in 2003 as a 25-year-old and won two events in his first six years as a professional. Finch has ran...
Published: 8/25/2009 3:11:22 AM
Graham DeLaet is a professional golfer from Canada. He has enjoyed varying levels of success as a collegiate golfer, an amateur and a professional. He turned pro in 2007 and had won three events as a professional as of August 2009. DeLaet has pla...
Published: 8/25/2009 3:11:21 AM
Corey Pavin is a professional golfer from Oxnard, Calif.. He was born on Nov. 16, 1959. played college golf at UCLA, and turned pro in 1982.
Published: 8/4/2009 3:00:54 AM
Known on the PGA Tour as the "Smilin' Assassin," Shigeki Maruyama is one of the best pro golfers to come from Japan. Besides three PGA Tour wins, Maruyama dominated the Japan Tour in the late 1990s, winning four tournaments in 1997 alone. He has ...
Published: 8/4/2009 3:00:56 AM
Matt Weibring is the son of PGA player D.A. Weibring. He made his debut on the PGA Tour in 2009, after spending five years on the Nationwide Tour. Although he's known as a tough competitor, Weibring has never won on either tour. His father, whom ...
Published: 8/4/2009 3:00:59 AM
