Bernard Gallacher OBE | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Born | Bathgate, Scotland | 9 February 1949||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||
Weight | 175 lb (79 kg; 12.5 st) | ||||
Sporting nationality | Scotland | ||||
Residence | Ascot, Berkshire, England | ||||
Spouse | Lesley | ||||
Children | 3, including Kirsty | ||||
Career | |||||
Turned professional | 1967 | ||||
Former tour(s) | European Tour European Seniors Tour | ||||
Professional wins | 23 | ||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||
European Tour | 10 | ||||
European Senior Tour | 1 | ||||
Other | 12 | ||||
Best results in major championships | |||||
Masters Tournament | CUT: 1970 | ||||
PGA Championship | DNP | ||||
U.S. Open | DNP | ||||
The Open Championship | T18: 1973 | ||||
Achievements and awards | |||||
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Bernard Gallacher, OBE (born 9 February 1949) is a Scottish professional golfer.
Gallacher was born in Bathgate in West Lothian, Scotland. He took up golf at the age of eleven. In 1965 he won the Lothians Golf Association Boys Championship. He won the 1967 Scottish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship and turned professional the same year.
He won the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award in 1968. His first professional wins came in 1969; a pair of them in Zambia and another pair in Europe in the equivalent of European Tour events. (The European Tour wasn't established until 1972.) He finished 1969 as Order of merit winner earning the Harry Vardon Trophy.
He accumulated ten wins on the European Tour between 1974 and 1984 and finished in the top ten on the European Tour Order of Merit five times between 1972 and 1982, with a best placing of third in 1974.
In 1969, at the age of 20, Gallacher became the youngest man to represent Great Britain in the Ryder Cup up to that time. This record was subsequently beaten by Nick Faldo and others. He went on to play in the Ryder Cup eight times and was non-playing captain of the European Team in 1991, 1993 and 1995. All three of those matches were very close; Europe lost the first two but won the third.
After turning 50, Gallacher played on the European Seniors Tour. His first senior win came at The Mobile Cup in 2002.
Gallacher was the professional at the Wentworth Club near London for 25 years until the end of 1996. He wrote a column for Scottish golf magazine bunkered from 1998 until 2008.
Gallacher's daughter Kirsty was a presenter on Sky Sports News for 20 years. [1] Another daughter, blogger and former restaurateur Laura Gallacher, is married to Russell Brand. [2] [3]
In August 2014, Gallacher was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. [4]
Source: [5]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 23 Jun 1974 | Carroll's Celebration International | −17 (72-71-68-68=279) | 3 strokes | Jack Newton |
2 | 5 Oct 1974 | Dunlop Masters | −2 (71-70-69-72=282) | Playoff | Gary Player |
3 | 4 Oct 1975 | Dunlop Masters (2) | +5 (74-70-71-74=289) | 2 strokes | Dale Hayes |
4 | 16 Apr 1977 | Spanish Open | −11 (70-68-70-69=277) | 2 strokes | Francisco Abreu |
5 | 13 May 1979 | French Open | −8 (71-69-74-70=284) | 1 stroke | Willie Milne |
6 | 21 Sep 1980 | Haig Whisky TPC | −8 (68-65-66-69=268) | 3 strokes | Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer |
7 | 14 Jun 1981 | Cold Shield Greater Manchester Open | −16 (65-69-63-67=264) | 5 strokes | Nick Faldo |
8 | 16 May 1982 | Martini International | −7 (71-71-68-67=277) | 3 strokes | José María Cañizares, Nick Faldo |
9 | 6 Jun 1982 | Jersey Open | −15 (69-66-68-70=273) | Playoff | Eamonn Darcy, Des Smyth |
10 | 3 Jun 1984 | Jersey Open (2) | −14 (66-71-68-69=274) | 2 strokes | Sandy Lyle |
European Tour playoff record (2–2)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
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1 | 1973 | Portuguese Open | Jaime Benito | Lost to par on first extra hole |
2 | 1974 | Dunlop Masters | Gary Player | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
3 | 1978 | European Open Championship | Gil Morgan, Bobby Wadkins | Wadkins won with birdie on first extra hole |
4 | 1982 | Jersey Open | Eamonn Darcy, Des Smyth | Won with par on fifth extra hole Darcy eliminated by birdie on second hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 14 Jul 2002 | Mobile Cup | −12 (67-68-66=201) | 4 strokes | Delroy Cambridge |
Tournament | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 |
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Masters Tournament | CUT | ||||||||||
The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | T37 | CUT | T18 | T24 | T19 | T60 | CUT | T22 | CUT |
Tournament | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 |
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Masters Tournament | ||||||||
The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | T25 | T19 | T31 | T47 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1969 Open Championship)
"T" = tied
Note: Gallacher never played in the U.S. Open or the PGA Championship.
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