Richard Boxall

Richard Boxall
Personal information
Full name	Richard Boxall
Born	(1961-04-28) 28 April 1961 (age 64) Hampton Wick, Middlesex, England
Height	5 ft 11.5 in (1.82 m)
Weight	196 lb (89 kg; 14.0 st)
Sporting nationality	England
Residence	Camberley, Surrey, England
Career
Turned professional	1982
Former tour(s)	European Tour
Professional wins	2
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	1
Other	1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T44: 1996

Richard Boxall (born 28 April 1961) is an English professional golfer.

Professional career

In 1982, Boxall turned professional. He won a place on the European Tour at that year's final qualifying school. He played on the Tour until 2000, and won one Tour event, the 1990 Lancia Martini Italian Open. He also had his best finish on the Order of Merit that year, placing seventeenth. He represented England in the Alfred Dunhill Cup and the World Cup of Golf in 1990.

During the third round of The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in 1991, Boxall was just two strokes off the lead when he suffered a stress fracture of his left leg while playing his tee shot on the ninth hole. ^[1]

Boxall now works as a golf commentator, mainly on Sky Sports coverage of the European Tour. He started on the BBC.

Professional wins (2)

European Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	20 May 1990	Lancia Martini Italian Open	−21 (65-64-70-68=267)	5 strokes	José María Olazábal

European Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	1990	Vinho Verde Atlantic Open	Stephen Hamill, Stephen McAllister, Ronan Rafferty, Anders Sørensen, David Williams	McAllister won with par on first extra hole

Other wins (1)

• 1995 J. P. McManus Pro-Am (shared title with Paul Broadhurst)

Results in major championships

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
The Open Championship	CUT			CUT	T52		CUT			T52	CUT	WD	CUT	CUT		CUT	T44	T48

Note: Boxall only played in The Open Championship.

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

• European Youths' Team Championship (representing England): 1982, ^{[2] [3]}

Professional

• Dunhill Cup (representing England): 1990
• World Cup (representing England): 1990

References

1. "Painful memories for Boxall 17 years on". The Scotsman . 16 July 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
2. Nordlund, Anders (September 1982). "Sveriges öde i junior-EM hängde på ett sprinklerlock, Junior-EM, pojkar" [Swedens destiny in the Junior Europeans depended on a sprinkler cover, European Youth's Team Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 7/1982. pp. 50, 65. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
3. "Scots beat odds to reach youth's final". The Glasgow Herald . 3 September 1982. p. 23. Retrieved 2 January 2023.

External links

• Richard Boxall at the European Tour official site
• Richard Boxall at the Official World Golf Ranking official site