Mark McNulty

Mark McNulty
— Golfer —
Personal information
Full name	Mark William McNulty
Born	(1953-10-25) 25 October 1953 Bindura, Southern Rhodesia
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	160 lb (73 kg; 11 st)
Nationality	Zimbabwe Ireland
Career
College	None
Turned professional	1977
Current tour(s)	Champions Tour
Former tour(s)	Sunshine Tour European Tour PGA Tour
Professional wins	59
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	16
Sunshine Tour	33 (2nd all time)
Champions Tour	8
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	T16: 1988
U.S. Open	T17: 1988
The Open Championship	T2: 1990
PGA Championship	T8: 1990
Achievements and 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

Mark William McNulty (born 25 October 1953) is an Irish/Zimbabwean 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 Ranking for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992.^[1]

McNulty was born in Bindura, Southern Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). He was raised on a farm in the Centenary area of Zimbabwe. His step-father was an amateur pilot who had an airstrip on the farm. When his step-father was diagnosed with epilepsy, he was forced to give up flying. He converted the airstrip into a three-hole golf course, where Mark first learned to play golf.

McNulty became an Irish citizen 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 his concern that as a non-resident Zimbabwean it could take him up to two years to get his passport renewed if he lost it. Commentators elaborated that the farm that his family had been managing for 40-something years had been confiscated by the Mugabe regime.^[2] He currently lives in Sunningdale, England.

Career

After a successful amateur career, McNulty began his professional career on the Southern African Tour (now the Sunshine Tour) and also played on the European Tour starting in 1978. His first professional win was the 1979 Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open in South Africa. By 1986 he was a 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 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, including the 1996 Volvo Masters, which was 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.

When McNulty 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 Charles Schwab Cup Championship) 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. His seventh win came in 2009 at the Principal Charity Classic with a playoff win over Nick Price and Fred Funk.

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

Amateur wins (2)

1974 Rhodesia Amateur Championship
1977 South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins (58)

European Tour wins (16)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	24 Jun 1979	Greater Manchester Open	−13 (64-66-71-66=267)	5 strokes	Manuel Piñero
2	24 Aug 1980	Braun German Open	−8 (71-70-70-69=280)	1 stroke	Tony Charnley, Neil Coles
3	26 Oct 1986	Portuguese Open	−18 (66-69-69-66=270)	1 stroke	Ian Mosey
4	31 May 1987	London Standard Four Stars National Pro-Celebrity	−15 (70-67-69-67=273)	Playoff	Sam Torrance
5	7 Jun 1987	Dunhill British Masters	−14 (71-65-71-67=274)	1 stroke	Ian Woosnam
6	30 Aug 1987	German Open	−25 (65-66-65-63=259)	3 strokes	Antonio Garrido
7	17 Apr 1988	Cannes Open	−9 (72-71-70-66=279)	3 strokes	Ron Commans, Joey Sindelar
8	8 Jul 1989	Torras Monte Carlo Open	−15 (68-64-64-65=261)	6 strokes	José Maria Cañizares, Jeff Hawkes
9	16 Apr 1990	Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open	−8 (69-71-69-71=280)	1 stroke	Ronan Rafferty
10	26 Aug 1990	Volvo German Open	−18 (67-68-70-65=270)	3 strokes	Craig Parry
11	25 Aug 1991	Volvo German Open	−15 (68-67-72-66=273)	Playoff	Paul Broadhurst
12	7 Aug 1994	BMW International Open	−14 (70-71-68-65=274)	1 stroke	Seve Ballesteros
13	11 Feb 1996	Dimension Data Pro-Am	−6 (69-67-73-73=282)	4 strokes	Brenden Pappas, Nick Price, Ricky Willison
14	28 Jul 1996	Sun Microsystems Dutch Open	−18 (67-65-66-68=266)	1 stroke	Scott Hoch
15	27 Oct 1996	Volvo Masters	−8 (72-69-67-68-276)	7 strokes	José Cóceres, Sam Torrance, Wayne Westner, Lee Westwood
16	28 Jan 2001	Mercedes-Benz South African Open	−8 (69-71-69-71=280)	1 stroke	Justin Rose

European Tour playoff record (2–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1987	London Standard Four Stars National Pro-Celebrity	Sam Torrance	Won with birdie on second extra hole
2	1990	Wang Four Stars	Michael Clayton, Rodger Davis, Bill Malley	Davis won with par on seventh extra hole Malley and McNulty eliminated on first hole
3	1991	Volvo German Open	Paul Broadhurst	Won with par on first extra hole
4	1993	Air France Cannes Open	Rodger Davis	Lost to par on first extra hole

Sunshine Tour wins (33)

1979 (1) Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open
1981 (1) SAB South African Masters
1982 (4) SISA Classic, SAB Masters, Sharp Electronics Classic, Sun City Classic
1984 (1) Pan Am Wild Coast Sun Classic
1985 (3) Palabora Classic, Hollard Royal Swazi Sun Open, Safmarine Masters
1986 (7) Safmarine Masters, Wild Coast Classic, Barclays Bank Classic, Swazi Sun Pro Am, Trustbank Tournament of Champions, Helix Wild Coast Classic, Germiston Centenary Tournament
1987 (4) Southern Suns South African Open, AECI Charity Classic, Royal Swazi Sun Pro-Am, Trustbank Tournament of Champion
1992 (1) Zimbabwe Open (co-sanctioned with the Challenge Tour)
1993 (2) Lexington PGA Championship, FNB Players Championship
1996 (1) Zimbabwe Open
1997 (2) San Lameer SA Masters, Nashua Wild Coast Sun Challenge
1998 (1) Vodacom Players Championship
2000 (1) Stenham Swazi Open
2000–01 (3) CABS Old Mutual Zimbabwe Open, Nashua Nedtel Cellular Masters, Mercedes-Benz South African Open (co-sanctioned with the European Tour)
2002–03 (1) Vodacom Players Championship

Other wins (3)

1980 (1) Malaysian Open
1986 (1) Million Dollar Challenge
1988 (1) Benson and Hedges Trophy (with Marie-Laure de Lorenzi) (Spain)

Champions Tour wins (8)

Legend
Champions Tour major championships (1)
Other Champions Tour (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	22 Feb 2004	Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am	−13 (67-65-68=200)	1 stroke	Larry Nelson
2	17 Oct 2004	SBC Championship	−18 (67-63-65=195)	8 strokes	Gary McCord
3	24 Oct 2004	Charles Schwab Cup Championship	−11 (69-74-68-66=177)	1 stroke	Tom Kite
4	26 Jun 2005	Bank of America Championship	−12 (67-69-68=204)	Playoff	Don Pooley, Tom Purtzer
5	16 Oct 2005	Administaff Small Business Classic	−16 (66-68-66=200)	1 stroke	Gil Morgan
6	19 Aug 2007	JELD-WEN Tradition	−16 (66-68-70-68=272)	5 strokes	David Edwards
7	31 May 2009	Principal Charity Classic	−10 (68-69-66=203)	Playoff	Fred Funk, Nick Price
8	24 Apr 2011	Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with David Eger)	−27 (64-64-61=189)	Playoff	Scott Hoch & Kenny Perry

Champions Tour playoff record (3–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2005	Bank of America Championship	Don Pooley, Tom Purtzer	Won with birdie on second extra hole
2	2009	Principal Charity Classic	Fred Funk, Nick Price	Won with birdie on fourth extra hole Price eliminated with birdie on first hole
3	2009	Senior British Open	Fred Funk, Loren Roberts	Roberts won with par on third extra hole Funk eliminated with birdie on first hole
4	2011	Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with David Eger)	Scott Hoch & Kenny Perry	Won with par on second extra hole

Results in major championships

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Masters Tournament	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
Masters Tournament	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
Masters Tournament	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

Summary

Tournament	2nd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	0	1	5	2
U.S. Open	0	0	0	1	12	7
The Open Championship	1	1	1	9	22	19
PGA Championship	0	0	1	3	11	6
Totals	1	1	2	14	50	34

Most consecutive cuts made – 9 (1989 Open Championship – 1993 Open Championship)
Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (1990 Open Championship – 1990 PGA)

Champions Tour major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
2007	JELD-WEN Tradition	−16 (66-68-70-68=272)	5 strokes	David Edwards

Results timeline

Results not in chronological order before 2014.

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
The Tradition	DNP	8	T46	1	T25	T25	DNP	T16	T59	T44	T46	T29
Senior PGA Championship	T7	T6	T19	DNP	DNP	T17	DNP	T34	T38	T28	T48	T9
Senior Players Championship	T9	T11	T41	T31	T52	DNP	DNP	T28	77	T52	5	T54
U.S. Senior Open	T19	T7	T14	T18	3	T36	DNP	T48	DNP	T42	DNP	DNP
Senior British Open Championship	T5	8	T27	T34	T16	T2	DNP	T44	T18	T26	CUT	T31

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

Amateur

Eisenhower Trophy (representing Rhodesia): 1974

Professional

Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
World Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Presidents Cup (International team): 1994, 1996
UBS Cup (Rest of the World team): 2004

References

↑ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking
↑ Keogh, Brian (27 November 2003). "Mark McNulty takes Irish citzenship". Retrieved 21 June 2012.

External links

Mark McNulty at the European Tour official site
Mark McNulty at the PGA Tour official site
Mark McNulty at the Sunshine Tour official site

The Tradition champions

1989 Don Bies 1990 Jack Nicklaus 1991 Jack Nicklaus 1992 Lee Trevino 1993 Tom Shaw 1994 Raymond Floyd† 1995 Jack Nicklaus† 1996 Jack Nicklaus 1997 Gil Morgan 1998 Gil Morgan 1999 Graham Marsh 2000 Tom Kite† 2001 Doug Tewell 2002 Jim Thorpe† 2003 Tom Watson 2004 Craig Stadler 2005 Loren Roberts† 2006 Eduardo Romero† 2007 Mark McNulty 2008 Fred Funk 2009 Mike Reid† 2010 Fred Funk 2011 Tom Lehman† 2012 Tom Lehman 2013 David Frost 2014 Kenny Perry 2015 Jeff Maggert†

† indicates the event was won in a playoff

International Presidents Cup team – 1994

Fulton Allem Robert Allenby Steve Elkington David Frost Bradley Hughes Mark McNulty Frank Nobilo Craig Parry Nick Price Peter Senior Vijay Singh Tsukasa Watanabe David Graham (non-playing captain)

Lost: 12 – 20

International Presidents Cup team – 1996

Robert Allenby Steve Elkington Ernie Els David Frost Mark McNulty Frank Nobilo Greg Norman Masashi Ozaki Craig Parry Nick Price Peter Senior Vijay Singh Peter Thomson (non-playing captain)

Lost: 15.5 – 16.5

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