Geoff Charles Ogilvy (born 11 June 1977) is an Australian
professional golfer
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. He won the
2006 U.S. Open and has also won three
World Golf Championships
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.
Professional career
Ogilvy was born in
Adelaide
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, South Australia to an English-born father Mike and Australian born mother Judy. He turned professional in May 1998 and he won a
European Tour
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card at that year's
Qualifying school
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. He played on the European Tour in 1999 and 2000, finishing 65th in his first season and improving to 48th in his second. He joined the U.S. based
PGA Tour
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in 2001, and finished in the top 100 in each of his first five seasons. His first professional tournament win came in 2005 at the PGA Tour's
Chrysler Classic of Tucson
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. In February 2006 he beat
Davis Love III
Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer who has won 21 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship: the 1997 PGA Championship. He won the Players Championship in 1992 and 2003. He was in the ...
in the final of the
2006 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
Ogilvy won his first
major championship at the
2006 U.S. Open, becoming the first Australian to win a men's golf major since
Steve Elkington
Stephen John Elkington (born 8 December 1962) is an Australian professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions. Formerly on the PGA Tour, he spent more than fifty weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from 1995 to 1998.
Elkington ...
at the 1995
PGA Championship
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. Ogilvy finished his round with a champion's flourish, making improbable pars on each of the last two holes. He holed a 30-foot
chip shot at the 17th, and then got up-and-down for par at the 18th, dropping a downhill six-footer for his final stroke as all his competitors collapsed around him.
Phil Mickelson
Philip Alfred Mickelson (born June 16, 1970), nicknamed Lefty, is an American professional golfer who plays for LIV Golf. He has won 45 events on the PGA Tour, including six Men's major golf championships, major championships: three Masters To ...
and
Colin Montgomerie
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needed pars on the final hole to win, or bogeys to tie with Ogilvy, but they ruined their chances by producing double-bogey sixes to give Ogilvy a dramatic win.
Jim Furyk
James Michael Furyk (born May 12, 1970) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. In 2010, he was the FedEx Cup champion and PGA Tour Player of the Year. He has won one major championship, the 200 ...
needed par to force a playoff but bogeyed the final hole.
This success moved Ogilvy into the top ten of the
Official World Golf Rankings
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The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...
for the first time, at Number 8. He reached his highest placing to date on 9 July 2006 when he was ranked Number 7, and he returned to that rank in February 2007 after finishing as runner-up to
Henrik Stenson while defending his title at the 2007
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
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. He has spent over 120 weeks in the top-10 of the rankings.
Ogilvy won the 2008
WGC-CA Championship
The WGC Championship was a professional golf tournament that was held between 1999 and 2021. It was one of the three or four annual World Golf Championships until the number of WGC events was reduced to two following the 2021 season.
Under sp ...
, his second
World Golf Championship
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title, by one shot shooting 17-under par. It was his first PGA Tour win since the
2006 U.S. Open. In his next start at the 2008
Shell Houston Open
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he finished tied for 2nd moving him up to number 5 in the
Official World Golf Rankings
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. It was started in 1986.
The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...
. In late June 2008, he rose to 3rd in the rankings. In 2009 Ogilvy continued his success at the
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
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defeating
Paul Casey
Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an English golfer who is a member of LIV Golf. He has also played on the US-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. In 2009, he achieved his highest position, third, in the Official World Golf Ranking. ...
. Ogilvy moved into second alone in World Golf Championship wins. This win brought him up to 4th in the Official World Golf Rankings.
In January 2010, Ogilvy won the
SBS Championship
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, the opening event of the 2010 PGA Tour.
Ogilvy won the 2014 Barracuda Championship, a tournament that uses the modified
Stableford scoring system, with a winning score of 49 points. It was his first victory in over 4 years.
Personal
Ogilvy and his wife Juli have three children.
Amateur wins
*1995 Portsea Open Amateur
*1996 German Amateur Open Championship
*1997
Victorian Amateur Championship
The Victorian Amateur Championship is the state amateur golf championship of Victoria, Australia. It has been played annually since 1899, except for the war years.
Two players have won the championship six times, Michael Scott between 1904 and ...
,
Lake Macquarie Amateur
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Professional wins (12)
PGA Tour wins (8)
PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
European Tour wins (4)
PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)
1Co-sanctioned by the
OneAsia Tour
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PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (0–1)
Other wins (2)
*1998
Tasmanian Open
The Tasmanian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Tasmania, Australia.
History
The Tasmanian amateur championship was first played in 1902 as a 36 hole stroke-play event. From 1910 the stroke-play acted as qualifying for a match-play stage, ...
*2009
Telus World Skins Game
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Between 2006 and 2012, the Telus Skins Game in ...
Major championships
Wins (1)
Results timeline
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Summary
*Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (2003 PGA – 2007 U.S. Open)
*Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2005 Open Championship – 2005 PGA)
Results in The Players Championship
CUT = missed the halfway cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
World Golf Championships
Wins (3)
Results timeline
''Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.''
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
PGA Tour career summary
''* Complete through the 2018 season.''
Team appearances
Amateur
*
Nomura Cup The Nomura Cup, also known as the Asia-Pacific Amateur Golf Team Championship, is a biennial amateur team golf championship for men organised by the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation. The inaugural event was held in 1963 and it has been played in odd ...
(representing Australia): 1997
*
Bonallack Trophy (representing Asia/Pacific): 1998
*
Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches
The Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches were an amateur team golf competition for men between the states and territories of Australia.
The event started in 1904 when New South Wales played Victoria. Until World War II the event was played a ...
(representing Victoria): 1995, 1996, 1997
Professional
*
Presidents Cup
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(International Team):
2007,
2009,
2011
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See also
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List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
This is a list of the fifty golfers who have won the most official (or later deemed historically significant) money events on the PGA Tour. It is led by Sam Snead and Tiger Woods with 82 each.
Many players won important events early in the 20th ce ...
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List of men's major championships winning golfers
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2000 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates __NOTOC__
Following is the list of 2000 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates, the 36 professional golfers who earned their 2001 PGA Tour card through Qualifying school, Q School in 2000.
*Players in yellow were 2001 PGA Tour rookies.
2001 Result ...
References
External links
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Geoff Ogilvy player profile, Golf AustraliaGeoff Ogilvy Foundation
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Australian male golfers
PGA Tour of Australasia golfers
European Tour golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Winners of men's major golf championships
Sportspeople from Adelaide
Golfers from Scottsdale, Arizona
Golfers from San Diego
Australian people of English descent
Australian people of Scottish descent
1977 births
Living people