Giuseppe Calì (born 28 September 1952) is an Italian professional
golf
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er.
Calì was born in
Mirano
Mirano is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
People
*Luigi Brugnaro (born 1961), politician and current mayor of Venice (since 2015)
* Federica Pellegrini (born 1988), Olympic swimmer, multiple world-record h ...
. He turned professional in 1971 and has won twelve professional tournaments in his home country, including five in 1988.
Calì played on the European circuit from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s - sometimes on the
European Tour
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itself and sometimes on the second tier
Challenge Tour
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History
T ...
. His best results on the
European Tour
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were sixth places at the 1990
Italian Open and the 1991
Mediterranean Open. In 1990 he won both the Cerruti Open and the Memorial Olivier Barras on the
Challenge Tour
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History
T ...
and topped the Challenge Tour money rankings. He also claimed more than a dozen non-
tour
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regular career (i.e. under fifty) professional tournaments.
Calì joined the
European Seniors Tour
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in 2003, and has won the 2005 Mobile Cup and the 2006
London Seniors Masters at that level.
Calì represented Italy in the
Alfred Dunhill Cup and the
World Cup
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(four times each).
Professional wins (15)
Challenge Tour wins (2)
*1990
Cerutti Open
The Margara Golf Open was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour. It was played annually from 1982 to 2001 at Golf Club Margara in Fubine, Italy
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,
Memorial Olivier Barras
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Other wins (11)
*1982
Cerutti Open
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*1984
Italian PGA Championship
The Italian PGA Championship is a golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
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*1985 Italian Native Open
*1987 Italian Native Open
*1988 Open La Pinetina, Open di Firenze, Open del Lavoro Luigi,
Italian PGA Championship
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Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
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,
Cerutti Open
The Margara Golf Open was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour. It was played annually from 1982 to 2001 at Golf Club Margara in Fubine, Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a countr ...
*1993 Italian Native Open
*1994 Italian Native Open
European Senior Tour wins (2)
European Senior Tour playoff record (1–0)
Team appearances
*
Dunhill Cup
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(representing Italy):
1986
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Events January
* January 1
**Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal enter ...
,
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...
,
1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
,
1992
*
World Cup
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(representing Italy): 1985,
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...
,
1988
File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...
,
1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
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Italian male golfers
European Tour golfers
European Senior Tour golfers
People from Mirano
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Venice
1952 births
Living people