Robert Lee (born 12 October 1961) is an

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professional

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. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

er and television presenter. Lee was born in

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. He turned professional in 1982 and was in his prime from 1985 to 1987, finishing in the top thirty of the

European Tour The European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons), legally the PGA European Tour is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged fift ...

Order of Merit each of those years. He twice shot 27 for nine holes on the tour, first at the 1985

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, and again two years later at the 1987

Portuguese Open The Open de Portugal, previously the Portuguese Open, is an annual professional golf tournament, currently played on the Challenge Tour. History It was first played in 1953, and was part of the European Tour's schedule from 1973 to 2010. After a ...

. He went on to win the latter, one of his two victories on the European Tour. He also seriously competed for the 1985 Open Championship in the opening rounds. He was in second place after the first round and only two back after the second round. He faded over the weekend but picked up a top-25 finish. From the late 1980s Lee's form dipped, and he spent the latter half of the 1990s going back and forth between the second-tier

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and the main European Tour. Since leaving the tour at the end of the 1999 season, Lee has worked as an analyst for

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Professional wins (5)

European Tour wins (2)

''Note: The 1987 Portuguese Open was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.'' European Tour playoff record (1–0)

Challenge Tour wins (2)

Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)

Other wins (1)

Results in major championships

''Note: Lee only played in The Open Championship.''
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Robert English male golfers European Tour golfers Golfers from London People from Walton-on-Thames 1961 births Living people