Mark McNulty

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Mark McNulty
Personal Information
Birth October 25, 1953 (1953-10-25) (age 54)
Bindura, Southern Rhodesia
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight 160 lb (73 kg)
Nationality Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Flag of Ireland Ireland
College None
Career
Turned Pro 1977
Current tour Champions Tour
Professional wins 57 (European Tour: 16, Champions Tour: 6, Other: 35)
Best Results in Major Championships
Masters T16: 1988
U.S. Open T17: 1988
British Open T2: 1990
PGA Championship T8: 1990
Awards
Sunshine Tour
Order of Merit Winner		 1980/81, 1981/82, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1986/87, 1992/93, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2000/01

For the Irish football player, see Mark McNulty (footballer).

Mark William McNulty (born 25 October 1953) is a professional golfer currently playing on the Champions Tour. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, and cracked the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992.[1]

McNulty was born in Bindura, Southern Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe), but he became a citizen of the 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, 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. In 2007 he won the JELD-WEN Tradition, one of the five major championships on the over-50 tour. It was McNulty's sixth career win on the Champions Tour.

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

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[edit] Amateur wins (2)

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

[edit] Professional wins (57)

[edit] European Tour wins (16)

[edit] Other wins (35)

  • 1979 (1) Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open (South Africa)
  • 1980 (1) Malaysian Open
  • 1981 (1) SAB South African Masters (South Africa)
  • 1982 (4) SISA Classic, SAB Masters, Sharp Electronics Classic, Sun City Classic (all South Africa)
  • 1984 (1) Pan Am Wild Coast Sun Classic (South Africa)
  • 1985 (3) Palabora Classic, Swazi Sun Pro-Am, Safmarine Masters (all South Africa)
  • 1986 (8) 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 (4) South African Open, AECI Charity Classic, Swazi Sun Pro-Am, Trustbank Tournament of Champions (all South Africa)
  • 1988 (1) Benson and Hedges Trophy (with Marie Laure de Lorenzi) (Spain)
  • 1992 (1) Zimbabwe Open (Challenge Tour)
  • 1993 (2) Lexington PGA Championship (South Africa), FNB Players Championship (South Africa)
  • 1996 (1) Zimbabwe Open
  • 1997 (2) San Lameer SA Masters (South Africa), Nashua Wild Coast Challenge (South Africa)
  • 1998 (1) Vodacom Players Championship (South Africa)
  • 2000 (2) Stenham Swazi Open (South Africa), Cabs Old Mutual Zimbabwe Open
  • 2001 (1) Nashua Nedtel Cellular Masters
  • 2002 (1) Vodacom Players Championship (South Africa)

[edit] Champions Tour wins (6)

Senior major championship is shown in bold.

[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] Team appearances

[edit] Amateur

[edit] Professional

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking

[edit] External links

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