Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an English golfer who is a member of the world’s top two professional golf tours, the U.S. based PGA Tour and the European Tour.

Career
Casey was born in Cheltenham, but moved to Weybridge at the age of six. After attending Cleves School, Weybridge and then Hampton School, he took a golf scholarship at Arizona State University (one of an increasing number of young British golfers taking tertiary scholarships in the USA as sports scholarships are not part of the British university system). His amateur career was distinguished. In the U.S. he was the first man to win three consecutive Pac-10 Championships (1998, 1999 and 2000). In 2000 he broke the championship scoring record held by Tiger Woods (18 under par) with a 23 under par 265. Back on the other side of the Atlantic he won the English Amateur Championship in 1999 and 2000. He was also a member of Great Britain and Ireland’s winning 1999 Walker Cup team, where he was only the third player in seventy seven years to record four victories without a single defeat.

Casey joined the European Tour in May 2001 and recorded a second in his fifth event and a win in his eleventh, the Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship, ending that season 22nd on the order of merit and collecting the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award. After a disappointing second season he won the ANZ Championship and the Benson and Hedges International Open in 2003, and came sixth on the Order of Merit.

Casey didn’t win any individual titles in 2004, but he was a member of the victorious European Ryder Cup team and also won the WGC-World Cup for England in partnership with Luke Donald. Another highlight of his year was a sixth place finish in his first Masters. He joined the PGA Tour shortly afterwards as a Special Temporary Member and his membership of the 2004 European Ryder Cup Team qualified him for membership of the U.S. based tour for the 2005 season. However he continues to play mainly in Europe, and was the leader of the European Tour Order of Merit in 2006, until Padraig Harrington overtook him in the final event.

Casey has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings and was the highest ranked Englishman for a time. In January 2007 he reached a career high of thirteenth in the rankings.

In 2006, Casey won the HSBC World Match Play Championship at Wentworth, beating Shaun Micheel 10 and 8 in a record victory for the final.

Casey became the only player in Ryder Cup history to win a foursome match with a hole-in-one on Saturday 23rd September 2006 in Ireland.

Anti-American comment
Prior to the November 2005 World Cup, Casey, speaking of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, told the The Sunday Times, “Oh, we properly hate them. We wanted to beat them as badly as possible.” He also spoke disparagingly of Americans in general, “the vast majority of [whom] simply don’t know what’s going on.” The Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper later ran a headline which simplified Casey’s statement as “Americans are stupid. I hate them.” leading golf equipment company Titleist to end his sponsorship. He later criticized the Mirror for incorrectly quoting him and for damaging his livelihood.

Amateur wins
1998 Pac-10 Championship
1999 English Amateur Championship, Pac-10 Championship
2000 English Amateur Championship, Pac-10 Championship

Professional wins
European Tour (8)

2001 (1) Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship
2003 (2) ANZ Championship, Benson & Hedges International Open
2005 (1) TCL Classic
2006 (3) Volvo China Open (2005 calendar year, 2006 European Tour season), Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, HSBC World Match Play Championship
2007 (1) Abu Dhabi Golf Championship

Team appearances
Amateur

Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1999 (winner)
Eisenhower Trophy (representing England): 2000
St Andrews Trophy: 2000

Professional
Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2004 (winners), 2006 (winners)
WGC-World Cup (representing England): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 (winner, with Luke Donald)
Seve Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2002 (winners), 2003 (winners), 2005 (winners), 2007 (winners)

Peter Alliss (born February 28, 1931) is an English golfer, television presenter and commentator, author and golf course designer. His father Percy was a professional golfer who won several tournaments on the European golf circuit in the 1920s and 1930s, and Peter was born in Berlin while his father was employed as a club professional there.

Allis quit school at the age of 14 (then the minimum school leaving age in the UK) and began his career as a professional golfer in 1947, at the age of 16. In his 27 years of playing, he won three British PGA Championships, was semi-finalist in the British PGA Matchplay Championship, played in eight Ryder Cup teams, and played on ten teams representing England in the World Cup. Percy and Peter Allis were the first father and son to both participate in the Ryder Cup (Antonio Garrido and his son Ignacio later became the second). He won 23 tournaments, and gave Sean Connery golf tips before he filmed Goldfinger. His competitive career was almost over by the time the European Tour was formally established in 1972, but he played in some events in the Tour’s early years, making his last appearance on the tour in 1975.

Alliss was the Captain of The Professional Golfers’ Association twice, the president of the British Greenkeepers` Association, and was the first president of the European Women’s Professional Golfers’ Association. He has worked as a commentator for the BBC, ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In Britain he is probably the best known golf broadcaster. He has hosted a total of 140 Pro Celebrity Golf TV programmes, was the host of Around with Allis, and is currently starring in A Golfer’s Travels, which is airing worldwide. He has written twenty books, the last of which was Golf Heroes, as well as articles in Golf International and Golf World Magazine.

Allis is also involved in golf course architecture. His first course design partner was David Thomas, with whom he created over 50 courses, including The Belfry, which is now the home of the Professional Golfers’ Association and has staged the Ryder Cup several times. He then joined forces with Clive Clark and added another 22 courses to his portfolio(Old Thorns Golf Course in Hampshire).

In July 2005, he was honoured by the University of St Andrews, shortly before The Open Golf Championship, with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

Tournament wins
1954 Daks Tournament
1956 Spanish Open
1957 British PGA Championship
1958 Italian Open, Spanish Open, Portuguese Open
1962 British PGA Championship
1963 Daks Tournament (tie with Neil Coles)
1964 Esso Golden Tournament, Swallow-Penfold Tournament
1965 British PGA Championship
1966 Martini International (tie with W. Large)
1967 Agfa-Gavaert Tournament
1969 Piccadilly Medal

Laura Jane Davies CBE (born 5 October 1963 in Coventry, England) is an English professional golfer.

She is considered the most accomplished English female golfer of modern times being the first non-American to finish at the top of the LPGA money list. She also won the LET Order of Merit a record seven times: in 1985, 1986, 1992, 1996, 1999, 2004 and 2006.

She currently has 69 professional wins worldwide, 20 on the LPGA including four majors. She is a member of U.S. based LPGA Tour and a life member of the Ladies European Tour. She needs only one major victory or two regular tour wins to enter the LPGA Hall of Fame.

Amateur career
As an amateur Davies was an international player for Great Britain with a notable record. She was the 1983 English Intermediate Champion, the 1984 Welsh Open Stroke Play Champion and the South Eastern Champion in both 1983 and 1984. She was also a member of the Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup Team in 1984. She turned professional in 1985.

Professional career
Laura Davies started her professional career on the WPGET (now LET) tour in 1985 when she won both Rookie of the Year and Order of Merit titles. She subsequently won the Sports Journalists’ Association Peter Wilson Trophy as International Newcomer of the Year 1985. She repeated the Order of Merit win in 1986 having won four titles, one of which was the British Women’s Open (prior to it becoming a major).

In 1987 she went to the United States and won the U.S. Women’s Open in an 18-hole playoff against Ayako Okamoto and JoAnne Carner. It was a victory that led the LPGA to amend its constitution. Davies was not a member of the LPGA Tour, so the LPGA changed its constitution to grant Davies automatic membership. Since 1988 Laura Davies has played on both the LPGA and LET tours.

In 1988 Davies won twice as a rookie on the LPGA Tour, three times on the LET Tour and once in Japan, becoming the first woman ever to win on all three major Tours in the same year.

In 1990 she was a member of the inaugural European Solheim Cup Team. She returned as part of the winning European team in 1992.

In 1994 she was the first golfer, male or female, to win on five different golf tours in one calendar year: US, Europe, Asia, Japan and Australia. and became the first European player to be ranked unofficial number one in the world. She was named the Sports Journalists’ Association Sportswoman of the Year 1995 and 1996.

Davies is the only player to participate in all ten Solheim Cup teams to date (1990-2007) on either the United States or European side.

Davies was part of the LPGA team at the Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge three times between 1994 and 1996.

She represented England at the Women’s World Cup of Golf in 2005 (with Karen Stupples), 2006 (with Kirsty Taylor) and 2007 (with Trish Johnson). She was a Captain’s pick for the International Team at the 2006 Lexus Cup.

In 2004 Davies was the first woman to compete in the men’s European Tour, entering the ANZ Championship in Sydney, Australia. She failed to make the cut, finishing second to last.

Davies currently holds the LPGA record for most eagles in a season, scoring 19 during the 2004 season.

Other awards and honors
Davies was awarded an MBE in 1988 and a CBE in 2000.

Off-course activities

Davies enjoys all sports and is an avid football fan and a Liverpool FC supporter. She organises the annual football match at the Evian Masters Tournament in France and she has in the past been fined by the Ladies European Tour for watching an England versus Spain European Championship football match on a portable television during the final round of the 1996 Evian Masters in France, a tournament she nevertheless won.

She is also the captain of the Rest of the World team in the annual Rest of the World V Australia cricket match held during the ANZ Ladies Masters.

In 2001, Davies joined the BBC Sport commentary team member at The Open Championship. and has regularly appeared in the commentary box for major golfing events on the BBC.

Davies has built a nine-hole golf course (one full size green and greenside bunker plus nine tees) in the garden of her house. In 2004 she hosted a celebrity fourball tournament for the charity Sport Relief.

Davies has always had an interest in gambling being a former bookmaker’s assistant and her interest has led to her becoming a racehorse owner.

In 2006 Davies completed a 56 mile charity walk along the Great Wall of China to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Professional wins (69)

LPGA Tour (20)
1987 (1) U.S. Women’s Open
1988 (2) Circle K LPGA Tucson Open, Jamie Farr Toledo Classic
1989 (1) Lady Keystone Open
1991 (1) Inamori Classic
1993 (1) McDonald’s Championship
1994 (3) Standard Register PING, Sara Lee Classic, LPGA Championship.
1995 (2) Standard Register PING, Chick-fil-A Charity Championship
1996 (4) Standard Register PING, LPGA Championship, du Maurier Classic, Star Bank LPGA Classic
1997 (1) Standard Register PING
1998 (1) PageNet Championship
2000 (2) Los Angeles Women’s Championship, Philips Invitational Honoring Harvey Penick.
2001 (1) Wegmans LPGA

Ladies European Tour (40)
This list is incomplete. Her LET profile states she has 39 wins but only lists wins from 1991 on.
1985 (1) Belgian Open
1986 (4) British Women’s Open, Greater Manchester Tournament, two other wins
1987 (1) BMW Italian Ladies’ Open
1988 (2) BMW Italian Ladies’ Open, one other win
1990 (1) AGF Biarritz Open
1991 (1) Valextra Classic
1992 (3) The European Ladies Open, The Ladies’ English Open, BMW Italian Ladies’ Open
1993 (1) Waterford Dairies English Open
1994 (2) Irish Open, Skoda Scottish
1995 (4) Evian Masters, Guardian Irish Open, Woodpecker Women’s Welsh Open, Wilkinson Sword English Open
1996 (3) Evian Masters, Wilkinson Sword English Open, Italian Open di Sicilia
1997 (2) Ford-Stimorol Danish Open, Hennessy Cup
1998 (1) Chrysler Open
1999 (4) Chrysler Open, McDonald’s WPGA Championship, Compaq Open, Praia d’El Rey European Cup (team event)
2000 (1) TSN Ladies World Cup Golf Ind
2001 (1) WPGA International Matchplay
2002 (1) P4 Norwegian Masters
2003 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters
2004 (1) AAMI Women’s Australian Open
2006 (2) SAS Norwegian Masters, Volvo Cross Country Challenge
2007 (1) UNIQA Ladies Golf Open

Other (9)
1988 (1) Itoki Classic (JLPGA)
1993 (1) Australian Ladies Masters
1994 (1) Australian Ladies Masters
2001 (1) Itoen Ladies Open (JLPGA)[34]
2008 (1) LG Bing New South Wales Open (ALPG)

Team appearances
Amateur
Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1984

Professional
Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 1990, 1992 (winners), 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 (winners), 2002, 2003 (winners), 2005, 2007
Women’s World Cup of Golf (representing England): 2005, 2006, 2007
Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2005 (winners)

Tony Jacklin (born July 7, 1944) is an English golfer, who was the most successful UK player of his generation. He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever. He was born in Scunthorpe, England.

Jacklin won two majors. In 1969, he became the first British player to win The Open Championship for 18 years. The following season he won the U.S. Open. It was the first victory by a British player in that tournament since 1920, and as of 2007, it remained the only one by any European in the post World War II era.

Jacklin won eight events on the European Tour between its first season in 1972 and 1982. He also won tournaments in Europe pre the European Tour era and in the United States, South America, South Africa and Australasia.

However, Jacklin may be best remembered for his involvement in the Ryder Cup. He was a playing member of the “Great Britain and Ireland” team in 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1977, and of the first European team in 1979. Except for a tie in 1969, all of those teams were defeated, but as the non-playing captain of Europe in four consecutive Ryder Cups from 1983 to 1989, he had a 2.5 - 1.5 winning record, captaining his men to their first victory for 28 years in 1985, and to their first victory in the United States since the War in 1987.

Jacklin was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002. He retired from tournament golf in 2004 at the age of sixty, having won a number of events at senior level.

Professional wins

European Tour wins (8)
1972 Viyella PGA Championship
1973 Italian Open, Dunlop Masters
1974 Scandinavian Enterprise Open
1976 Kerrygold International Classic
1979 Braun German Open
1981 Billy Butlin Jersey Open
1982 Sun Alliance PGA Championship

PGA Tour wins (4)
1968 Jacksonville Open Invitational
1969 The Open Championship (not a European Tour event because the European Tour was founded in 1972, retroactively classified as PGA Tour win in 2002)
1970 U.S. Open
1972 Greater Jacksonville Open
Major championships are shown in bold.

Other wins (14)
1964 Coombe Hill Assistants
1966 Kimberley Tournament (South Africa)
1967 Forest Products (New Zealand), New Zealand PGA Championship, British Masters
1970 Lancome Trophy (France, but not a European Tour event at that time), W.D. & H.O. Wills (Europe)
1971 Benson & Hedges Festival (Europe)
1972 Dunlop International
1973 Bogotá Open, Los Lagartos Open
1974 Los Lagartos Open
1976 Kerrygolf International (Ireland)
1979 Venezuela Open

Senior PGA Tour wins (2)
1994 First of America Classic
1995 Franklin Quest Championship

Major Championships
Wins (2)
Year Championship Winning Score Margin Runner Up
1969 The Open Championship -4 (68-70-70-72=280) 2 strokes Bob Charles
1970 U.S. Open -7 (71-70-70-70=281) 7 strokes Dave Hill