Gary Player is one of three golfers to win both the Open and the Senior Open. New Zealander Bob Charles and which American, a five-time Open winner in the 1970s and 1980s are the others?
"2003 Senior British Open The 2003 Senior British Open was a senior major golf championship and the 17th Senior British Open, held from 24–27 July at Turnberry in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the 5th Senior British Open played at the course and the first Senior British Open played as a senior major championship. Tom Watson defeated Carl Mason in a playoff to win his first Senior British Open title. The 2003 event was Watson's second senior major championship victory. The 2003 event was the 5th Senior British Open played at Turnberry. The field consisted of 144 competitors: 139 professionals"
"Bob Charles (golfer) Sir Robert James Charles (born 14 March 1936) is a New Zealand professional golfer. His achievements over five decades rank him among the most successful left-handed golfers of all time, being the first lefty to win a golf major, winning more than 70 titles, and beating his age twice during a tournament as a 71-year-old. Born in Carterton, a small town in the Wairarapa district in New Zealand's North Island, Charles lived in Masterton where he worked as a bank teller. He won the New Zealand Open at Heretaunga on 8 November 1954, as an 18-year-old amateur."
"Gary Player Gary Player DMS, OIG (born 1 November 1935) is a South African professional golfer widely considered one of the greatest golfers ever. Over his career, Player accumulated nine major championships on the regular tour and six Champions Tour major championship victories, as well as three Senior British Open Championships on the European Senior Tour. At the age of 29, Player won the 1965 U.S. Open and became the only non-American to win all four majors in a career, known as the career Grand Slam. Player became only the third golfer in history to win the Career Grand Slam,"
"majors throughout their existence. The Senior PGA Championship was held twice in 1984 but was not held in 1983 or 1985. Bernhard Langer holds the record for the most senior majors won with ten. Gary Player has also won nine championships that are now considered senior golf majors, but three of his titles came at the Senior Open Championship before this tournament officially gained senior major status. Jack Nicklaus has won eight senior majors and holds the record for the most regular majors won (18). Bernhard Langer is the only player to have won each of the five senior major"
"CUT = missed the halfway cut (3rd round cut in 1970, 1980, 1981 and 1985 Open Championships) WD = withdrew ""T"" indicates a tie for a place. Won in an 18-hole playoff, Player (68) to Charles (70). The Senior Open Championship was not a Champions Tour major until 2003, though it was on the European Seniors Tour. Player won the event three times prior to this recognition. CUT = Missed the half-way cut NYF = Tournament not yet founded ""T"" = tied Gary Player Gary Player DMS, OIG (born 1 November 1935) is a South African professional golfer widely considered"
"are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold. Source: Scoring Average leaders Source: Money List leaders Source: Career Money List leaders Source: 1988 Senior PGA Tour The 1988 Senior PGA Tour was the ninth season since the Senior PGA Tour officially began in 1980 (it was renamed the Champions Tour in 2003 and PGA Tour Champions in 2016). The season consisted of 34 official money events with purses totalling $10,370,000, including three majors. Bob Charles and Gary Player won the most tournaments, five. The tournament results,"
"Annes. After four rounds (68-72-66-71) his 277 was level with American Phil Rodgers. Charles won the 36-hole playoff by eight shots. Charles has won about 80 tournaments around the world. As well as his PGA Tour victories, his win in the 1969 World Matchplay Championship was considered one of his best. He won the Senior British Open 30 years after winning his British Open title. He remains, along with Michael Campbell, one of only two New Zealanders to win a men's major golf championship. In 2007 Charles became the oldest golfer to make a cut on the European Tour at"
"and Jack Nicklaus were appointed to captain their respective teams again in 2007 in Canada; the United States won. In 2000 he was voted ""Sportsman of the Century"" in South Africa. In 1966, Gary Player was awarded the Bob Jones Award, the highest honour given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. The ""Gary Player – A Global Journey"" exhibition was launched by the Hall of Fame as of March 2006. In 2000, Player was ranked as the eighth greatest golfer of"
"announced his retirement during the second round of the 2016 Australian Open held at The Royal Sydney Golf Club. Senior suffered a hip injury on the sixth hole and announced his retirement from professional golf shortly after. European Tour playoff record (1–0) Part of the 2011 European Senior Tour season CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1979 Open Championship)<br> ""T"" = tied Peter Senior Peter Albert Charles Senior (born 31 July 1959) is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world. Senior has competed mainly on the PGA Tour of"
"to win a major championship was Bobby Locke who won The British Open four times in 1949, 1950, 1952 and 1957. Also, he claimed nine wins at the South African Open, seven at the South Africa Professional and 11 at the Transvaal Open, for a total 74 professional wins. The most famous of South African golfers is however Gary Player who along with Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus dominated world golf for much of the 1960s, and 1970s. Player won all four majors, winning the British Open in 1959, 1968 and 1974, The Masters in 1961, 1974 and 1978, the"
"1968 Open Championship The 1968 Open Championship was the 97th Open Championship, played 10–13 July at Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland. Gary Player won the second of his three Open titles, two strokes ahead of runners-up Bob Charles and Jack Nicklaus. It was the fifth of Player's nine major titles. This Open introduced the second cut at 54 holes, used through 1985. In addition, starting with this Championship all past Open champions were exempt from qualifying (though, eventually, an age restriction was placed on past champions). The inaugural Greater Milwaukee Open was held in the United States during the"
"Sir Bob Charles has won the British Open and a number of other titles. The precocious Lydia Ko, born in Seoul but raised from infancy in New Zealand, was #1 in the women's World Amateur Golf Ranking, and won two events on the US-based LPGA Tour before turning professional in 2013. She has since won seven more LPGA events, and is the current #1 in the Women's World Golf Rankings for professionals. The first of Ko's two stints as #1 in the professional rankings began in February 2015, before her 18th birthday, making her the youngest player of either sex"
"background and plain-spoken popularity helped change the perception of golf from an elite, upper-class pastime (private clubs) to a more populist sport accessible to middle and working classes (public courses). Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player were ""The Big Three"" in golf during the 1960s; they are widely credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world. In a career spanning more than six decades, he won 62 PGA Tour titles from 1955 to 1973. As of today, he is fifth on the Tour's all-time victory list, trailing only Sam Snead, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Ben Hogan. He"
"(+16). ""Friday, 13 July 1968"" Amateurs: ""Bonallack (+5)"", Monguzzi (+18). ""Saturday, 13 July 1968"" Amateurs: Bonallack (+12). 1968 Open Championship The 1968 Open Championship was the 97th Open Championship, played 10–13 July at Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland. Gary Player won the second of his three Open titles, two strokes ahead of runners-up Bob Charles and Jack Nicklaus. It was the fifth of Player's nine major titles. This Open introduced the second cut at 54 holes, used through 1985. In addition, starting with this Championship all past Open champions were exempt from qualifying (though, eventually, an age restriction was"
"was presented by Viscount Jellicoe, the second Governor-General of New Zealand, in 1924 and is awarded for the lowest round in the championship. In 1954 Bob Charles, who was later to become the only New Zealander to win a major championship in the 20th century, won as an 18-year-old amateur. He won again in 1966, 1971 and 1973, as a professional, and he and the two Australian major champions Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle dominated the event from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. Other well known winners have included the American Corey Pavin in 1984 and 1985, and Michael"
"complete a career ""Grand Slam"", just a year after Gary Player became the third. It would be another 34 years before a fifth player (Tiger Woods) accomplished the feat. 1967 After six finishes in the top three without a victory, Argentine Roberto DeVicenzo wins a popular British Open victory at Hoylake, by two shots from Jack Nicklaus and by six from Gary Player and local favourite Clive Clark. A year after losing the same event in a playoff to Jack Nicklaus, Gay Brewer wins the Masters. Charlie Sifford, by winning the Greater Hartford Open, becomes the first African-American to win"
"1968 PGA Championship The 1968 PGA Championship was the 50th PGA Championship played July 18–21 at Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas. Julius Boros, age 48, won the third of his three major titles, one stroke ahead of runners-up Bob Charles and Arnold Palmer. Through 2016, Boros remains the oldest winner of a major championship. The tournament was played in very hot conditions. Palmer had an putt to tie on the 72nd green, but it missed on the high side of the hole. It was the second of his three runner-up finishes at the only major he never"
"tournament record of 271 in winning The Masters. Gary Player wins the U.S. Open championship after a playoff with Australian Kel Nagle, to complete a career ""Grand Slam"" of the four major professional titles. He becomes only the third player (Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan were the first two) to accomplish the feat. Peter Thomson wins a fifth Open Championship, and in so doing proves that he can beat a field that includes the leading U.S. Tour professionals of the day, many of whom had ignored the event for his wins in the 1950s. On the final day, Thomson overtook"
"three strokes, 71 to 74. He won the championship with fiberglass-shafted golf clubs. With his win, Player joined Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan as the only to win all four professional major championships, the career Grand Slam. Jack Nicklaus completed the feat himself the next year at the 1966 British Open. Player was also the first foreign-born winner of the U.S. Open in 38 years, since Scotland's Tommy Armour won in 1927. Arnold Palmer missed the 36-hole cut by two strokes, the only time from 1962 to 1967 that he placed outside the top-5 at the U.S. Open. Defending champion"
"one of the leading American chess masters at the time of this game. He won the 1953 U.S. Open Championship, and later represented the United States in the 1962, 1964, and 1968 Chess Olympiads. He became an International Master in 1962, and probably would have risen further if not for ill health. Robert ""Bobby"" Fischer (1943–2008) was at this time a promising young master. Following this game, he had a meteoric rise, winning the 1957 U.S. Open on tiebreaks, winning the 1957–58 U.S. (Closed) Championship (and all seven later championships in which he played), qualifying for the Candidates Tournament and"
"third hole. In 1981, the Club hosted the second annual U.S. Senior Open sponsored by the USGA. Many of the legends of golfing lore participated. The Championship was eventually won by Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole playoff with Billy Casper and Bob Stone. In 1985, Oakland Hills became one of only three courses in the country to have hosted the U.S. Open five times. With many of the big names missing the cut, a relative unknown from Taiwan, Chen Tze-chung, found himself leading the field into the final round with the help of a rare double eagle on the second"
"1974 Open Championship The 1974 Open Championship was the 103rd Open Championship, held from 10–13 July at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. Gary Player won his third Open Championship, four strokes ahead of runner-up Peter Oosterhuis. It was the eighth of his nine major titles and second of the year; he won the Masters in April. In the other two majors in 1974, the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship, Player had top ten finishes. The use of the larger ""American ball"" (diameter ) was made compulsory. In previous Opens, players could use the smaller"
"Bob Shearer Robert A. Shearer (born 25 May 1948) is an Australian professional golfer and golf course architect. Shearer was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He won the 1969 Australian Amateur and turned pro in 1970. Shearer won the PGA Tour of Australia Order of Merit four times: 1974, 1977, 1981, 1982. He spent five years on the European Tour and then nine on the PGA Tour. His career year was 1982 when he won the Australian Open and his sole PGA Tour event, the Tallahassee Open. He had 18 top-10 finishes in PGA Tour events. His best finish in a"
"Bob Stone (golfer) Bob Stone (1930–1996) is a former American professional golfer. Stone played on the PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour and worked as a club professional. Stone played on the PGA Tour from 1968 to 1972 with a best finish of tied for second behind Dale Douglass at the 1969 Azalea Open Invitational. He played on the Senior PGA Tour from 1981 to 1987 with three second place finishes. In the 1981 U.S. Senior Open, Stone finished tied with Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper, but lost the resultant playoff to Palmer. He also finished second to Don January"
"and the U.S. Senior Open, the majors run by the USGA: Palmer (1954) and Nicklaus (1959, 1961) also won the U.S. Amateur, previously considered a major. U.S. Senior Open The U.S. Senior Open is one of the five major championships in senior golf, introduced in 1980. It is administered by the United States Golf Association (USGA) and is recognized as a major championship by both the PGA Tour Champions and the European Senior Tour. The lower age limit was 55 in 1980, but it was lowered to 50 for the second edition in 1981, which is the standard limit for"
"professionals, both club and touring. This contrasts to the other three majors, two of which are organized by bodies controlled by golf's amateur establishment, and the other run by a private club founded by a lifetime amateur. Since 1968, the PGA Championship has been run mainly for the top touring professionals, but unlike the other majors, it continues to reserve places for the club pros. Sam Snead and Bob Rosburg are the only players to win a major championship and the PGA Professional Championship. Bruce Fleisher and Larry Gilbert each would go on to win a senior major. Several other"
"four other players Gary Player, Hale Irwin, Bernhard Langer and Justin Rose. In 1976, won twice on the PGA Tour, and then came from behind to secure a victory over the reigning champion Hale Irwin in the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship. Graham won two major championships, the 1979 PGA Championship at Oakland Hills near Detroit, and the 1981 U.S. Open at Merion, just west of Philadelphia. He also finished third at the 1985 Open Championship, after sharing the third-round lead. Both of his major victories came in remarkable fashion. In the 1979 PGA Championship, he stood on the last"
"1988 Senior PGA Tour The 1988 Senior PGA Tour was the ninth season since the Senior PGA Tour officially began in 1980 (it was renamed the Champions Tour in 2003 and PGA Tour Champions in 2016). The season consisted of 34 official money events with purses totalling $10,370,000, including three majors. Bob Charles and Gary Player won the most tournaments, five. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below. The following table shows all the official money events for the 1988 season. ""Date"" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names"
"Senior major golf championships Men's professional senior golf is for players aged 50 and above. Golf differs from all other sports in having lucrative competitions for this age group. The leading senior tour is the U.S.-based Champions Tour, which was established in 1980 (as the Senior PGA Tour). It has established a roster of five major championships. These events are all played over four rounds, whereas other senior tournaments are generally played over three rounds—only one other current Champions Tour event, the limited-field and season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, is played over four rounds. A golfer's performances can be quite"
"singles ties. By winning the 2006 Wimbledon title, Bryan completed the men's doubles Career Grand Slam. He became the 19th individual player and, with Mike Bryan, the 7th doubles pair to achieve this. Bob Bryan Robert Charles Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American professional tennis player. He has won twenty-three Grand Slam titles: 16 in men's doubles and 7 in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Mike, he has been the world No. 1 doubles player for much of the last several years, first achieving the top ranking in September 2003. The brothers"
"""Sunday, July 21, 1968"" 1968 PGA Championship The 1968 PGA Championship was the 50th PGA Championship played July 18–21 at Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas. Julius Boros, age 48, won the third of his three major titles, one stroke ahead of runners-up Bob Charles and Arnold Palmer. Through 2016, Boros remains the oldest winner of a major championship. The tournament was played in very hot conditions. Palmer had an putt to tie on the 72nd green, but it missed on the high side of the hole. It was the second of his three runner-up finishes at the"
"major championship was a T-7 at the 1978 Open Championship. Today he splits his time between his golf course design work and the European Seniors Tour. PGA Tour playoff record (0–1) European Tour playoff record (0–1) CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> WD = withdrew<br> ""T"" indicates a tie for a place Bob Shearer Robert A. Shearer (born 25 May 1948) is an Australian professional golfer and golf course architect. Shearer was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He won the 1969 Australian Amateur and turned pro in 1970. Shearer won the PGA Tour of Australia Order of Merit four times: 1974,"
"of the senior majors contested in a year, even in the period between 1980 and 1982 when only two senior majors existed. Bernhard Langer is the only man to have won all five of the current senior majors in his career. Miller Barber won both of the 1980-1982 senior majors, the Senior PGA and U.S. Senior Open, during that time span, and won the inaugural Senior Players Championship in 1983. Those three tournaments would be the only senior majors until The Tradition was first played in 1989. Prior to the founding of The Tradition, Palmer and Player also completed that"