Ian Harold Woosnam OBE (born 2 March 1958) is a British professional golfer from Wales. He was one of the “Big Five” generation of European golfers, all born within 12 months of one another, who all won majors, and made Europe competitive in the Ryder Cup. His peers in this group were Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer and Sandy Lyle.

Career outline
Woosnam was born in the town of Oswestry in England, and his family lived in the nearby village of St Martin’s in Shropshire. He started playing at the unique Llanymynech Golf Club - which is partly in Wales and partly in England. He is short for a male golfer at 5 ft 4½ in (1.64 m), but he is a powerful hitter. He played as an amateur in regional competitions in the English county of Shropshire alongside Sandy Lyle. (Click here to read the article in full)

Dave Thomas (born 16 August 1934) is a Welsh professional golfer.

Dave Thomas was one of Britain’s foremost golfers of the 1950s and 1960s, winning over a dozen tournaments in Britain and Europe, and twice finishing second in Open Championship. In 1958, he tied with Peter Thomson at Lytham before narrowly losing the playoff, and in 1966, finished just one shot behind Jack Nicklaus. He represented Great Britain in the Ryder Cup in 1959, 1963, 1965 and 1967, accumulating a 3-10-5 win-loss-half record, but was only once beaten in five singles matches. He was renowned for his long, straight, driving, once hitting a drive at Hoylake onto the green at the 420-yard second hole.

After retiring he set up a golf course design business. His dozens of original designs include the Brabazon, Derby and PGA National courses at Ryder Cup venue The Belfry, and his redesigns include the Open Championship venue Turnberry.

Professional wins
1955 Belgian Open
1958 Dutch Open
1959 French Open
1961 Esso Golden Tournament (tie with Peter Thomson)
1962 Esso Golden Tournament
1963 News of the World Match Play, Olgiata Trophy (Rome)
1965 Silentnight Tournament
1966 Esso Golden Tournament, Swallow-Penfold Tournament, Jeyes Pro-Am Tournament

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.