Paul Lawrie

Paul Lawrie
— Golfer —

Personal information
Full name	Paul Stewart Lawrie
Nickname	Chippy^[1]
Born	(1969-01-01) 1 January 1969 Aberdeen, Scotland
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg; 14 st)
Nationality	Scotland
Residence	Aberdeen, Scotland
Spouse	Marian Giles
Children	Craig, Michael
Career
Turned professional	1986
Current tour(s)	European Tour (joined 1992)
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	12
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	8
Other	4
Best results in major championships (wins: 1)
Masters Tournament	T15: 2003
U.S. Open	T30: 2002
The Open Championship	Won: 1999
PGA Championship	T34: 1999

Paul Stewart Lawrie OBE (born 1 January 1969) is a Scottish professional golfer who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1999.

Lawrie at the Scottish Hydro Challenge

Early career

Lawrie was born in Aberdeen. He turned professional in 1986 and became a member of the European Tour in 1992. He performed steadily without doing much to draw attention to himself, aside from a 6th-place finish in the 1993 Open Championship. In his first seven seasons his only top 50 finish on the Order of Merit came in 1996 when he was 21st. However he also finished in the top 100 in all but one of the other six seasons, and picked up a debut tour win at the 1996 Catalan Open.

1999 onwards

Lawrie's career was transformed in 1999. After winning the Qatar Masters, which is a European Tour event, early in the season, he went on to win the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie in July.^[2] This was the Open where the Frenchman Jean van de Velde blew a three-shot lead on the final hole. Lawrie won a four-hole playoff against Van de Velde and American Justin Leonard. An unusual aspect of Lawrie's victory was that he was neither leader nor co-leader at any time during his regulation 72 holes, only moving into a share of the lead when the leaders came back to him after he had completed his final round. Also, Lawrie came back from the largest third-round deficit ever faced by a major championship winner; going into the final day, he trailed the leader, Van de Velde, by 10 shots. This is also the record for the biggest final-round comeback on the PGA Tour.^[3]

After his major championship victory, Lawrie's game shifted to a higher level without quite moving him into the global elite group of golfers. He finished 9th on the European Tour Order of Merit in 1999; 6th in 2001, when he captured the lucrative Dunhill Links Championship; and 10th in 2002, when he won his fifth European Tour title at the Celtic Manor Resort Wales Open.

In March 2001, the Paul Lawrie Foundation was created. The Foundation aims to support and sustain an interest and enthusiasm for the game of golf amongst under 18s. Activities are delivered in a fun and relaxed setting with equipment provided if necessary. The Foundation has grown rapidly and now includes football and hockey.^[2]^[4] In 2011, a 54 hole tournament, the Paul Lawrie Invitational was added to the Tartan Tour.

After winning the Open, Lawrie was a member of the PGA Tour for several seasons, while also continuing to compete on the European Tour. He enjoyed little success in the U.S. and when his five-year major championship exemption expired at the end of the 2004 season, he lost his PGA Tour card.

Lawrie comes out from the rough at the Scottish Hydro Challenge

Lawrie was the last European player to win a major until 2007, when that drought was ended by Pádraig Harrington of Ireland in The Open Championship. He was the last player from the United Kingdom to win a major until Graeme McDowell won the 2010 U.S. Open. Lawrie is still the last player from Scotland to win a major.

At the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry, Lawrie scored what is believed to be only the eighth albatross (double eagle) in the competition's 150-year history by holing his second shot at the par 5 seventh hole in the final round.^[5]

On 27 March 2011, Lawrie won the Open de Andalucía de Golf by one stroke over Johan Edfors. Lawrie finished the championship at −12 and in doing so ended a nine-year period without a tour win.^[6]

In February 2012, Lawrie won the Commercialbank Qatar Masters for the second time in his career, having previously won in 1999. Lawrie became only the second player to have won the tournament more than once alongside Adam Scott. It was Lawrie's seventh win on the European Tour. The tournament was reduced to 54 holes after strong winds hampered the play during rounds one and two. He won by four strokes over Jason Day and Peter Hanson after a final round of 65.

Lawrie skipped the 2012 U.S. Open in an attempt to qualify for the 2012 Ryder Cup. He secured qualification with victory at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles in August. He has stated that he would accept the captain's role for the 2014 Ryder Cup if offered.^[7] Lawrie helped Team Europe retain the Ryder Cup at Medinah.^[8] He finished the season in the top 10 of the Order of Merit for the first time in ten years.

Lawrie was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2000 and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for voluntary service to golf.^[9]^[10]

Non-playing work

Lawrie is passionate about junior golf and his Paul Lawrie Foundation has taught thousands of youngsters. In 2012, he also bought Aspire Golf Centre in Aberdeen (now called the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre). Partly due to this, he was named by the Golf Club Managers' Association's Golf Club Management magazine as the 37th most powerful person in British golf. Lawrie is a fan of Aberdeen FC.^[11]

Lawrie was also a columnist for bunkered golf magazine between 1999 and 2004.

Professional wins (12)

European Tour wins (8)

Legend
Major championships (1)
Other European Tour (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	3 Mar 1996	Catalan Open	−9 (65-70=135)	1 stroke	Fernando Roca
2	20 Feb 1999	Qatar Masters	−20 (68-65-67-68=268)	7 strokes	Søren Kjeldsen, Phillip Price
3	18 Jul 1999	The Open Championship	+6 (73-74-76-67=290)	Playoff	Justin Leonard, Jean van de Velde
4	21 Oct 2001	Dunhill Links Championship	−18 (71-68-63-68=270)	1 stroke	Ernie Els
5	11 Aug 2002	Celtic Manor Resort Wales Open	−16 (67-65-70-70=272)	5 strokes	John Bickerton
6	27 Mar 2011	Open de Andalucía de Golf	−12 (66-67-65-70=272)	1 stroke	Johan Edfors
7	5 Feb 2012	Commercialbank Qatar Masters*	−15 (69-67-65=201)	4 strokes	Jason Day, Peter Hanson
8	26 Aug 2012	Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles	−16 (68-69-67-68=272)	4 strokes	Brett Rumford

* Note: The 2012 Commercialbank Qatar Masters was reduced to 54 holes due to strong winds.

European Tour playoff record (1–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	1999	The Open Championship	Justin Leonard, Jean van de Velde	Won 4-hole playoff (Lawrie:15, Leonard:18, Van de Velde:18)
2	2001	Celtic Manor Resort Wales Open	Daren Lee, Paul McGinley	McGinley won with par on fifth extra hole Lawrie eliminated with par on second hole
3	2003	Alfred Dunhill Championship	Mark Foster, Anders Hansen, Trevor Immelman, Doug McGuigan, Bradford Vaughan	Foster with eagle on second extra hole Hansen and McGuigan eliminated with birdie on first hole

Other wins (4)

1990 Scottish Assistants Championship
1992 UAP Under 25s Championship, Scottish Brewers Championship
2002 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Match Play Championship

Major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runners-up
1999	The Open Championship	10 shot deficit	+6 (73-74-76-67=290)	Playoff ¹	Justin Leonard, Jean van de Velde

¹ Defeated Justin Leonard and Jean van de Velde in 4-hole playoff: Lawrie (5-4-3-3=15), Leonard (5-4-4-5=18), Van de Velde (6-4-3-5=18)

Results timeline

Tournament	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T22	T6	T24	T58	CUT	DNP	CUT	1
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T34

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Masters Tournament	CUT	CUT	CUT	T15	T37	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	CUT	T30	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	T42	T59	CUT	CUT	T52	CUT	CUT	CUT	T47
PGA Championship	T72	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	T24	T38	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	T32	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	T66	T34	T26	CUT	T40
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	T48	CUT	DNP	DNP

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

Summary

Tournament	Wins	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	0	1	7	4
U.S. Open	0	0	0	0	5	2
The Open Championship	1	1	2	4	23	13
PGA Championship	0	0	0	0	6	3
Totals	1	1	2	5	41	22

Most consecutive cuts made – 7 (2011 Open Championship – 2013 Open Championship)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice)

Results in World Golf Championship events

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Accenture Match Play Championship	DNP	QF	R32	R64	R64	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Cadillac Championship	T37	DNP	NT¹	T54	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Bridgestone Invitational	T21	DNP	DNP	T65	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Accenture Match Play Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	R16	R64
Cadillac Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	T60	T58
Bridgestone Invitational	DNP	DNP	DNP	T50	T27
HSBC Champions	DNP	DNP	T49	T36	DNP

¹Cancelled due to 9/11
DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
Yellow background for top-10.
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

World Cup (representing Scotland): 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003
Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Scotland): 1999
Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1999, 2012 (winners)
Seve Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2000, 2002 (winners), 2003 (winners), 2013
Royal Trophy (representing Europe): 2009, 2013 (winners)

References

↑ "Lawrie looks to show his mettle at Medinah". Ryder Cup. 22 September 2012.
1 2 "The Foundation". The Paul Lawrie Foundation. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
↑ Kelley, Brent. "Largest Final-Round Comeback on PGA Tour". About.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
↑ "Paul Lawrie". The Paul Lawrie Foundation. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
↑ "Paul Lawrie sinks Turnberry albatross to join select Open club". The Guardian. 19 July 2009.
↑ "Lawrie finally a winner again". Sky Sports. 28 March 2011.
↑ "Paul Lawrie: Former Open winner would accept Ryder Cup captaincy". 13 June 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
↑ "Europe seal Ryder Cup win with comeback of epic proportions". Guardian UK. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60534. p. 11. 15 June 2013.
↑ "Paul Lawrie receives OBE". 14 June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ The Golf Power List 40-31 Golf Club Management, June 2012

External links

Official website
Paul Lawrie at the European Tour official site
Paul Lawrie at the PGA Tour official site
Paul Lawrie at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

The Open Championship champions

1860 Willie Park Sr. 1861 Tom Morris Sr. 1862 Tom Morris Sr. 1863 Willie Park Sr. 1864 Tom Morris Sr. 1865 Andrew Strath 1866 Willie Park Sr. 1867 Tom Morris Sr. 1868 Tom Morris Jr. 1869 Tom Morris Jr. 1870 Tom Morris Jr. 1871 No championship 1872 Tom Morris Jr. 1873 Tom Kidd 1874 Mungo Park 1875 Willie Park Sr. 1876 Bob Martin† 1877 Jamie Anderson 1878 Jamie Anderson 1879 Jamie Anderson 1880 Bob Ferguson 1881 Bob Ferguson 1882 Bob Ferguson 1883 Willie Fernie† 1884 Jack Simpson 1885 Bob Martin 1886 David Brown 1887 Willie Park Jr. 1888 Jack Burns 1889 Willie Park Jr.† 1890 John Ball# 1891 Hugh Kirkaldy 1892 Harold Hilton# 1893 William Auchterlonie 1894 John Henry Taylor 1895 John Henry Taylor 1896 Harry Vardon† 1897 Harold Hilton# 1898 Harry Vardon 1899 Harry Vardon 1900 John Henry Taylor 1901 James Braid 1902 Sandy Herd 1903 Harry Vardon 1904 Jack White 1905 James Braid 1906 James Braid 1907 Arnaud Massy 1908 James Braid 1909 John Henry Taylor 1910 James Braid 1911 Harry Vardon† 1912‡ Edward Ray 1913 John Henry Taylor 1914 Harry Vardon 1915-19 No Championships due to World War I 1920 George Duncan 1921 Jock Hutchison† 1922 Walter Hagen 1923 Arthur Havers 1924 Walter Hagen 1925 Jim Barnes 1926 Bobby Jones# 1927‡ Bobby Jones# 1928 Walter Hagen 1929 Walter Hagen 1930 Bobby Jones# 1931 Tommy Armour 1932‡ Gene Sarazen 1933 Denny Shute† 1934‡ Henry Cotton 1935 Alf Perry 1936 Alf Padgham 1937 Henry Cotton 1938 Reg Whitcombe 1939 Dick Burton 1940-45 No Championships due to World War II 1946 Sam Snead 1947 Fred Daly 1948 Henry Cotton 1949 Bobby Locke† 1950 Bobby Locke 1951 Max Faulkner 1952 Bobby Locke 1953 Ben Hogan 1954 Peter Thomson 1955 Peter Thomson 1956 Peter Thomson 1957 Bobby Locke 1958 Peter Thomson† 1959 Gary Player 1960 Kel Nagle 1961 Arnold Palmer 1962 Arnold Palmer 1963 Bob Charles† 1964 Tony Lema 1965 Peter Thomson 1966 Jack Nicklaus 1967 Roberto De Vicenzo 1968 Gary Player 1969 Tony Jacklin 1970 Jack Nicklaus† 1971 Lee Trevino 1972 Lee Trevino 1973‡ Tom Weiskopf 1974 Gary Player 1975 Tom Watson† 1976 Johnny Miller 1977 Tom Watson 1978 Jack Nicklaus 1979 Seve Ballesteros 1980 Tom Watson 1981 Bill Rogers 1982 Tom Watson 1983 Tom Watson 1984 Seve Ballesteros 1985 Sandy Lyle 1986 Greg Norman 1987 Nick Faldo 1988 Seve Ballesteros 1989 Mark Calcavecchia† 1990 Nick Faldo 1991 Ian Baker-Finch 1992 Nick Faldo 1993 Greg Norman 1994 Nick Price 1995 John Daly† 1996 Tom Lehman 1997 Justin Leonard 1998 Mark O'Meara† 1999 Paul Lawrie† 2000 Tiger Woods 2001 David Duval 2002 Ernie Els† 2003 Ben Curtis 2004 Todd Hamilton† 2005‡ Tiger Woods 2006 Tiger Woods 2007 Pádraig Harrington† 2008 Pádraig Harrington 2009 Stewart Cink† 2010 Louis Oosthuizen 2011 Darren Clarke 2012 Ernie Els 2013 Phil Mickelson 2014‡ Rory McIlroy 2015 Zach Johnson†

† indicates the event was won in a playoff; ‡ indicates the event was won wire-to-wire in 72-holes; # indicates the event was won by an amateur

Paul Lawrie in the Ryder Cup

European Ryder Cup team – 1999

Darren Clarke Andrew Coltart Sergio García Pádraig Harrington Miguel Ángel Jiménez Paul Lawrie Colin Montgomerie José María Olazábal Jesper Parnevik Jarmo Sandelin Jean van de Velde Lee Westwood Mark James (non-playing captain)

Lost: 13.5 – 14.5

European Ryder Cup team – 2012

Nicolas Colsaerts Luke Donald Sergio García Peter Hanson Martin Kaymer Paul Lawrie Graeme McDowell Rory McIlroy Francesco Molinari Ian Poulter Justin Rose Lee Westwood José María Olazábal (non-playing captain)

Won: 14.5 – 13.5

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