Mark McNulty

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Mark William McNulty (born 25 October 1953) is a golfer who was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s.

McNulty was born in Bindwa, Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe), but he became a citizen of the Republic of Ireland in 2003 at the age of 50. He was eligible to do so because his maternal grandmother was born in Ballymena in Northern Ireland. He explained that his reason for doing so was that he was concerned that as a non-resident Zimbabwean it could take him up to two years to get his passport renewed if he lost it. Despite his citizenship, the European Tour's website states that he lives in Sunningdale in England. Sunningdale is in a wealthy town in the "stockbroker belt" to the west of London. Several of England's top courses are in this area and the likes of Ernie Els and Nick Faldo live nearby.

After a successful amateur career McNulty began his professional career on the Southern African Tour, now the Sunshine Tour and he also played on the European Tour from 1978. His first professional win was the 1979 Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open in South Africa. By 1986 he was the dominant player on the Southern African Tour, picking up seven official wins in that year and also winning South Africa's most lucrative event, the unofficial Million Dollar Challenge. In the same year he finished in the top ten on the European Tour's order of merit for the first time, placing sixth. He had six top ten European order of merit finishes in total, including second places in 1987 and 1990. The last of these was in 1996, when he came fifth. His win tally on the European Tour was sixteen, the most prestigious of which was the 1996 Volvo Masters, which is the European equivalent of the PGA Tour's Tour Championship. He won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit nine times: 1980/81, 1981/82, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1986/87, 1992/93, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2000/01.

McNulty continued to perform consistently through his forties, apart from a couple of disappointing seasons. When he turned fifty and became eligible to play senior golf he chose to take part in the U.S. based Champions Tour. His first full season in 2004 was highly successful with three wins including the senior "tour championship" (the Charles Schwab Cup), and a seventh place finish on the money list.

McNulty lists his interests as piano, fine arts and koi fish.

[edit] European Tour wins (16)

[edit] Champions Tour wins

[edit] Other professional wins

  • 1979 Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open (South Africa)
  • 1980 Malaysian Open
  • 1981 SAB South African Masters (South Africa)
  • 1982 SISA Classic, SAB Masters, Sharp Electronics Classic, Sun City Classic (all South Africa)
  • 1984 Pan Am Wild Coast Sun Classic (South Africa)
  • 1985 Palabora Classic, Swazi Sun Pro-Am, Safmarine Masters (all South Africa)
  • 1986 Safmarine Masters, Wild Coast Classic, Barclays Bank Classic, Swazi Sun Pro Am, Trustbank Tournament of Champions, Helix Wild Coast Sun Classic, Germiston Centenary Tournament, Million Dollar Challenge (all South Africa)
  • 1987 South African Open, AECI Charity Classic, Swazi Sun Pro-Am, Trustbank Tournament of Champions (all South Africa)
  • 1988 Benson and Hedges Trophy (with Marie Laure de Lorenzi) (Spain)
  • 1992 Zimbabwe Open (Challenge Tour)
  • 1993 Lexington PGA Championship (South Africa), FNB Players Championship (South Africa)
  • 1996 Zimbabwe Open
  • 1997 San Lameer SA Masters (South Africa), Nashua Wild Coast Challenge (South Africa)
  • 1998 Vodacom Players Championship (South Africa)
  • 2000 Stenham Swazi Open (South Africa), Cabs Old Mutual Zimbabwe Open
  • 2001 Nashua Nedtel Cellular Masters
  • 2002 Vodacom Players Championship (South Africa)

[edit] Team appearances

[edit] Amateur wins

  • 1974 Rhodesia Amateur Championship
  • 1977 South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T16 CUT
U.S. Open DNP T53 CUT T50 CUT CUT T35 T66 T17 CUT
The Open Championship T23 T23 T54 T45 DNP CUT T59 T11 T28 T11
PGA Championship DNP DNP T54 DNP DNP T70 CUT WD T17 DNP
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
The Masters DNP T35 DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP CUT DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP T33 DNP DNP CUT DNP T28 DNP DNP
The Open Championship T2 T64 T28 T14 T11 T40 T14 32 CUT T37
PGA Championship T8 T27 DNP CUT T15 DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP
Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship T11 CUT DNP T53
PGA Championship DNP CUT DNP DNP

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

[edit] See also

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