Dai Rees (31 March 1913 – 10 September 1983) was one of the Britain’s leading golfers either side of World War II.

Born in Fontygary, Wales, Rees is best remembered as the captain of the Great Britain team which defeated the United States to win the Ryder Cup at Lindrick Golf Club in Yorkshire, England in 1957. The score was a decisive 7.5-4.5. This was the only defeat which the U.S. suffered in the competition between 1933 and 1985, and the last achieved by Britain’s golfers without the assistance of the rest of Europe. Following this triumph he won Britain’s best known sports award, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, for 1957. In 1958 he was made a CBE, a rare honour for a sportsman. Rees played in nine Ryder Cups in total, and was selected for the aborted 1939 Cup. He has a 7-9-1 win-loss-draw record, which was well above average for a British player in an era when the British team suffered many heavy defeats.

In individual events, Rees’ wins included four News of the World Match Plays (1936, 1938, 1949, 1950). He didn’t win a major, but he was runner-up in The Open Championship in 1953, 1954 and 1961. This is as well as any Welshman has yet finished in The Open. The European Tour was established in 1972 and Rees was a member for the first few seasons, but by then he was past his best. A keen Arsenal fan, he was involved in a car crash on his way back from watching his team play a match, and failed to recover from his injuries, dying some months later.

Ryder Cup appearances: 1937, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961

Tournament wins

1936 News of the World Match Play
1938 News of the World Match Play
1947 Penfold Tournament (tie with Reg Whitcombe and Norman Von Nida)
1948 Irish Open
1949 News of the World Match Play
1950 News of the World Match Play, British Masters
1953 Daks Tournament
1954 Belgian Open
1956 Swiss Open
1958 South African PGA Championship
1959 British PGA Championship, Swiss Open
1962 British Masters, Daks Tournament (tie with Bob Charles)
1963 Swiss Open
1966 PGA Seniors Championship

Becky Morgan, born in Abergavenny on 5 September 1974, is a Welsh professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S. based LPGA Tour but is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.

Amateur career
Becky Morgan was introduced to the game of golf by her grandfather when she was 12 and had a successful amateur career. She was a member of the Welsh Junior and Under-21 teams and also won the 1991 and 1992 Welsh School Championship titles. She was a member of the Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup Team in 1998 and 2000 and a member of the Vagliano Trophy team in 1997 and 1999. Morgan was the runner-up in 1996 and a semifinalist in 1997 at the British Amateur Championship. She was 2nd at the British Strokeplay championship in 1998.

She enrolled at University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1994, and during the next four years won 10 NCAA div 1 medallist titles, including three Big South Conference Championships from 1995-1997 resulting in her being named Big South All-American for those three years. She finished 10th in the NCAA Championship in 1997, the year she graduated with a major in Geography.

Morgan returned to Wales and continued her amateur career finishing runner-up at the Welsh Amateur Championship from 1998-99 and second at the South Atlantic Amateur Championship in 2000.

Professional career
Morgan turned professional in August 2000. She qualified for the Ladies European Tour by finishing tied for sixth at the LET Qualifying School and earned non-exempt status on the LPGA Tour by finishing T14th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament and thus had rookie seasons on both sides of the Atlantic in 2001.

She played in eight events on LET in 2001 without missing a cut, posting four top tens including narrowly losing the French Open to Norway’s Suzann Pettersen at the third play off hole.[8] She also played 16 events on the LPGA earning her first LPGA top 10 finish with a tie for 7th at the Longs Drugs Challenge. She finished second to Hee-Won Han for Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year honours.

In 2002 she competed in four events on the Evian Ladies European Tour, where she posted two top-10 finishes. She also played 18 events on the LPGA with a T7 at the ShopRite LPGA Classic being her only top ten finish. In 2003, she finished second at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, the best LPGA finish of her career and in 23 starts had seven top tens. Becky played in six events on the LET with her best finish being a tie for fourth at the HP Open. She narrowly missed out on a captain’s pick for the 2003 Solheim Cup. Catrin Nilsmark has admitted it was a mistake to leave Morgan off of the team.

In 2004 Becky played most of the year on the LPGA. In 24 starts, Becky amassed three top tens. She also played in four events on the LET with her best finish being 3rd at the HP Open in Sweden. She also concentrated on the LPGA for 2005 and recorded 1 top tens out of 23 events played. Her best performance on the LET was a tie for sixth on home soil at the Wales Ladies Championship.

She teamed up with Becky Brewerton to finish 6th in the inaugural Women’s World Cup of Golf in 2005. They teamed up again in 2006 when they finished third and 2007 when they finished eighth.

Bradley Dredge (born 6 July 1973) is a Welsh golfer. He turned professional in 1996 and became a member of the European Tour in 1998. He has won twice on the European Tour, at the 2003 Madeira Open and at the 2006 European Masters, and also has two wins on the second tier Challenge Tour. In 2005 he achieved a career best Order of Merit position of 16th, and in the post-season he won the WGC-World Cup for Wales in partnership with Stephen Dodd. In May of 2007, he lost in a playoff at the Irish Open to Padraig Harrington.

He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.

Amateur wins (2)
1991 Welsh Boys Championship
1993 Welsh Amateur Championship

Professional wins (4)

European Tour wins (2)
2003 Madeira Open
2006 European Masters

Challenge Tour wins (2)
1997 Klassis Turkish Open
1999 Is Molas Challenge

Team appearances

Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Wales): 1992
Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1993
St Andrews Trophy: 1994 (winners)
Jacques Leglise Trophy: 1991 (winners)

Professional
World Cup (representing Wales): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 (winners), 2007
Seve Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2005 (winners), 2007 (winners)

Stephen Dodd (born 15 July 1966) is a Welsh golfer who after a very moderate career, unexpectedly won two events on the European Tour in the 2005 season at the age of 38.

Dodd won The Amateur Championship at Royal Birkdale in 1989, which qualified him to play in the Masters the following year, but he spent the early years of his professional career on the second tier Challenge Tour. In 1992 he won the Bank Austria Open on that tour, but his results were generally patchy. He first qualified to for the main European Tour in 1995, but didn’t finish in the top one hundred of the rankings until 2001, when he came 97th. He then had new personal best seasons in 2003 and 2004, finishing 80th and 58th respectively.

The 2005 season marked a sudden improvement in Dodd’s fortunes. He won the first tournament he entered that season, the Volvo China Open (actually played in late 2004), which is one of several events co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the Asian Tour. A few weeks later he picked up a new biggest paycheck of his career by coming tied second in the higher profile Dubai Desert Classic. In May 2005 he won the Nissan Irish Open, a considerably more prestigious tournament than his previous victory, and in November of the same year he won the WGC-World Cup for Wales in partnership with Bradley Dredge. He finished 2005 ranked 17th on the Order of Merit.

In 2006 he won the Smurfit European Open. In 1989 he was Welsh sports personality of the year.

European Tour victories (3)
2005 Volvo China Open (played in 2004; part of 2005 season)
2005 Nissan Irish Open
2006 Smurfit European Open

Team appearances

Amateur
Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1989

Professional
Seve Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2005 (winners}
WGC-World Cup (representing Wales): 2005 (winners), 2007