Ian Poulter

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Ian James Poulter (born 10 January 1976) 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.

Born in Hitchin, Poulter's first professional win was the Open de Côte d'Ivoire on the European Tour's second tier Challenge Tour in 1999, and he won promotion to the European Tour itself via the Qualifying School later that year. In his first season he claimed the Italian Open title and was the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year for 2000. Further wins followed in each of the next four seasons, most prestigiously the season ending "tour championship" the Volvo Masters in 2004. He was in the top ten on the Order of Merit in 2003, 2004 and 2006.

After narrowly missing a place in the 2001 European Ryder Cup team, Poulter was a member of the victorious squad in 2004. This entitled him to take up membership of the PGA Tour in 2005, and he divided his time between the two tours in 2005 and 2006. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. He is well known for his often radical dress sense, including trousers featuring the famous Claret Jug, worn at both the 2005 and 2006 Open Championships. Commentating for the BBC, Seve Ballesteros cruelly jibed that this was "the closest [Poulter] would ever get to it".

In the 2006 Tiger Woods Game made by EA Sports Ian Poulter appeared on the game as a fellow prfessional along with a host of other leading players in the world such as Luke Donald, Annika Sorenstam and Natalie Gulbis, this was part of the new Tiger Woods PGA tour game. Outside of the computer industry Ian is now sponsored by Cobra after he left TaylorMADE, he also has his own clothing line due for release in 2007 which can be spotted up and down the best fairways in the world, his clothing line is known as IJP as these are his initials, the styling tends be to be fairly extravagant but very smart and brings a new dimension to the golf game with up and coming young stars taking fashion to the green. .

Trivia He is the owner of a Ford GT40 as featured on Fith Gear