Nathan Green | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Nathan Andrew Green |
Born | 13 May 1975 Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (170 lb; 12.0 st) |
Nationality | Australia |
Residence | Coal Point, NSW, Australia; Plano, Texas, United States |
Career | |
Turned professional | 1998 |
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour PGA Tour of Australasia |
Former tour(s) | Canadian Tour |
Professional wins | 4 |
Number of wins by tour | |
PGA Tour | 1 |
European Tour | 1 |
PGA Tour of Australasia | 2 |
Other | 1 |
Best results in Major Championships |
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Masters Tournament | 48th: 2010 |
U.S. Open | CUT: 2006, 2007 |
The Open Championship | CUT: 2001, 2011 |
PGA Championship | T23: 2007 |
Nathan Andrew Green (born 13 May 1975) is an Australian professional golfer.
Green was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He turned professional in 1998. During his early career, he played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia, and the Canadian Tour during the Australian winter. In 2000 he won the Queensland PGA Championship in Australia, and the Benefit Partners/NRCS Classic in Canada.
Having failed to gain his PGA Tour card through the qualifying school, Green competed on the second tier Nationwide Tour in the United States in 2002, 2004 and 2005. He ended the 2005 season 18th on the money list, which enabled him to graduate directly to the PGA Tour for 2006. He finished 5th in his first event on the PGA Tour, and in his second, the Buick Invitational, he made his way into a playoff for the title against Tiger Woods and José María Olazábal, but was eliminated at the first extra hole. He finished the year ranked inside the top 50 on the money list.
Green's victory at the New Zealand Open in December 2006 raised him into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time.
Green's first PGA Tour victory came at the 2009 RBC Canadian Open where he defeated Retief Goosen on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff. Green almost lost on the first hole but Goosen missed a six-foot birdie putt that would have won the tournament. On the second hole, Green missed a twelve-foot birdie putt to win the tournament but it would not matter. Goosen had to sink a nine-foot par putt to extend the playoff but he missed it, giving Green the victory.[1]
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No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 27 Jul 2009 | RBC Canadian Open | -18 (68-65-69-68=270) | Playoff | Retief Goosen |
PGA Tour playoff record (1-1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
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1 | 2006 | Buick Invitational | José María Olazábal, Tiger Woods | Woods won with par on second extra hole Green eliminated with par on first |
2 | 2009 | RBC Canadian Open | Retief Goosen | Won with par on second extra hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
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1 | 3 Dec 2006 (2007 season) |
Blue Chip New Zealand Open (co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia) |
-5 (71-67-76-65=279) | 2 strokes | Michael Campbell, Nick Dougherty, Marcus Fraser, Jarrod Moseley, Wade Ormsby, Brett Rumford |
Tournament | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
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The Masters | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | CUT | CUT | DNP | DNP |
The Open Championship | CUT | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | T49 | T23 | DNP | T63 |
Tournament | 2010 | 2011 |
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The Masters | 48 | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP | DNP |
The Open Championship | DNP | CUT |
PGA Championship | DNP | DNP |
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.