Sam Torrance

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Sam Torrance (born 24 August 1953) is a Scottish golfer who was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s and was the winning non-playing captain of the European Ryder Cup team in 2002.

Torrance turned professional at 16 and joined the European Tour at seventeen. He achieved his first professional win in 1972 and his first European Tour win in 1976. He won twenty-one times on the European Tour; only fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie has accumulated more European Tour titles without winning one of golf's four major championships. His best finish on the European Tour Order of Merit was second, which he achieved in 1984 and 1995. In total he finished in the top ten on the list ten times. In 2003 Torrance became eligible to play in senior tournaments and he picked up his first win on the European Seniors Tour in 2004. He topped the European Seniors Tour's Order of Merit in both 2005 and 2006.

Torrance played for Europe in the Ryder Cup eight times. In 1985 he sank the winning putt which deprived the Americans of the trophy for the first times in twenty-eight years. Seventeen years later he was the non-playing captain on the European team which won the 2002 Cup at The Belfry. This made him the first European Captain to sink the winning put and Captain a winning team at separate Ryder Cups.

Torrance married English actress Suzanne Danielle in 1988. He was awarded an MBE in 1996 for services to golf and an OBE in the 2003 New Year Honours List for his captaincy of Europe's Ryder Cup team.

[edit] European Tour wins

[edit] European Seniors Tour wins

[edit] Other wins

  • 1972 Radici Open (Italy), Under-25 Match Play Championship
  • 1975 Zambian Open
  • 1978 Scottish Professional Championship
  • 1979 Colombian Open
  • 1980 Australian PGA Championship, Scottish Professional Championship
  • 1983 C* Scottish PGA Championship (Challenge Tour)
  • 1985 Scottish Professional Championship
  • 1991 Scottish Professional Championship
  • 1993 Scottish Professional Championship

[edit] Team appearances

  • Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1981, 1983, 1985 (winners), 1987 (winners), 1989 (tied and retained trophy), 1991, 1993, 1995 (winners), 2002 (non-playing captain of winning team)
  • Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Scotland): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995 (winning team), 1999
  • World Cup (representing Scotland): 1976, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
  • Four Tours World Championship: 1985, 1991 (winning captain)
  • Hennessy Cognac Cup: 1976 (winners), 1978 (winners), 1980 (winners), 1982 (winners), 1984
  • Double Diamond: 1973 (winners), 1976, 1977
  • UBS Cup: 2001, 2002, 2003

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship T46 CUT CUT T19 CUT CUT CUT CUT
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
Tournament 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T31 DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship T38 5 12 T53 T9 T16 T21 T50 T48 CUT
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP T33 DNP CUT T39 DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP T21 DNP T16 DNP DNP CUT DNP
The Open Championship T39 T44 CUT T51 CUT T11 CUT CUT T23 DNP CUT
PGA Championship DNP CUT DNP DNP T30 T23 CUT T45 DNP DNP CUT

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10

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