Terry Gale | |
---|---|
| |
Personal information | |
Full name | Terry R. Gale |
Born | Yelbeni, Western Australia | 7 June 1946
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb; 12 st 8 lb) |
Sporting nationality | ![]() |
Residence | Perth, Western Australia |
Career | |
Turned professional | 1976 |
Former tour(s) | PGA of Japan Tour Asia Golf Circuit PGA Tour of Australasia European Seniors Tour |
Professional wins | 43 |
Number of wins by tour | |
Japan Golf Tour | 2 |
PGA Tour of Australasia | 16 |
European Senior Tour | 7 |
Other | 18 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | T13: 1979 |
Terry R. Gale (born 7 June 1946) is an Australian professional golfer.
Gale had a successful amateur career before turning professional at a relatively advanced age in 1976. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s he won regularly on the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Japan Golf Tour, and the Asia Golf Circuit. Once he turned 50, he joined the European Seniors Tour, where he won seven tournaments. His best season on that tour was 2003, when he finished third on the Order of Merit. He also played on the Japanese Seniors Tour.
Gale originally worked as a sheep farmer. [1]
Off the course, Gale was the second Chairman of the PGA Tour of Australasia. His son, Mark Gale was a professional Australian rules footballer. Gale was also a talented cricketer in his youth, representing his state on occasion, although never at First Class level.
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 20 Jun 1982 | Yomiuri Open | −16 (70-70-68-68=276) | 3 strokes | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2 | 23 Apr 1989 | Dunlop Open 1 | −4 (73-74-68-69=284) | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() |
1Co-sanctioned by the Asia Golf Circuit
PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1983 | Japan Open Golf Championship | ![]() | Lost to par on second extra hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 26 Mar 1978 | Singapore Open | −6 (68-70-72-68=278) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
2 | 6 Mar 1983 | Benson & Hedges Malaysian Open | −9 (67-71-71-70=279) | 2 strokes | ![]() |
3 | 1 Apr 1984 | Indonesia Open | −8 (70-70-71-69=280) | 2 strokes | ![]() |
4 | 10 Mar 1985 | Benson & Hedges Malaysian Open (2) | −14 (68-64-69-69=270) | 7 strokes | ![]() |
5 | 8 Mar 1987 | Benson & Hedges Malaysian Open (3) | −8 (66-75-70-69=280) | Playoff | ![]() |
6 | 23 Apr 1989 | Dunlop Open 1 | −4 (73-74-68-69=284) | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() |
1Co-sanctioned by the PGA of Japan Tour
Asia Golf Circuit playoff record (1–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1982 | Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Open | ![]() ![]() | Cox won with par on fourth extra hole Gale eliminated by par on first hole |
2 | 1987 | Benson & Hedges Malaysian Open | ![]() | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 6 Mar 1977 | Forbes Classic | −3 (285) | Playoff | ![]() |
2 | 25 Mar 1979 | Royal Fremantle Open | −8 (69-73-67-71=280) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
3 | 5 Aug 1979 | Nedlands Masters | −9 (69-68-71-71=279) | 5 strokes | ![]() |
4 | 31 Aug 1980 | Western Australian Open | −2 (71-74-69-72=286) | 3 strokes | ![]() |
5 | 10 May 1981 | Halls Head Western Open | −7 (69-69-67-76=281) | 2 strokes | ![]() |
6 | 17 May 1981 | CIG Channel 9 Nedlands Masters (2) | −4 (70-69-70-71=280) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
7 | 29 Nov 1981 | New Zealand PGA Championship | −11 (66-67-68-68=269) | Playoff | ![]() |
8 | 23 May 1982 | Town and Country Western Australian Open (2) | −13 (71-68-65-71=275) | Playoff | ![]() |
9 | 28 Nov 1982 | New Zealand BP Open | −4 (75-66-74-69=284) | 2 strokes | ![]() |
10 | 5 Dec 1982 | Air New Zealand Shell Open | −7 (66-68-65-74=273) | Playoff | ![]() |
11 | 23 Jan 1983 | Ford Dealers South Australian Open | −7 (69-72-72-68=281) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
12 | 22 May 1983 | Town and Country Western Australian Open (3) | −8 (70-68-68-74=280) | Playoff | ![]() |
13 | 29 May 1983 | National Panasonic Nedlands Masters (3) | −20 (62-67-67-72=268) | 3 strokes | ![]() |
14 | 26 May 1985 | Halls Head Estates Nedlands Masters (4) | −13 (72-66-66-71=275) | 5 strokes | ![]() |
15 | 11 Dec 1988 | Air New Zealand Shell Open (2) | −9 (69-69-68-65=271) | 4 strokes | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
16 | 1 Nov 1992 | Pioneer Singapore PGA Championship | −8 (71-69-68=208) | Playoff | ![]() |
PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (6–0)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1977 | Forbes Classic | ![]() | Won with birdie on second extra hole |
2 | 1981 | New Zealand PGA Championship | ![]() | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
3 | 1982 | Town and Country Western Australian Open | ![]() | Won with par on first extra hole |
4 | 1982 | Air New Zealand Shell Open | ![]() | Won with birdie on second extra hole |
5 | 1983 | Town and Country Western Australian Open | ![]() | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
6 | 1992 | Pioneer Singapore PGA Championship | ![]() | Won with par on first extra hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 25 Aug 1996 | The Belfry PGA Seniors Championship | −4 (72-70-72-70=284) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
2 | 7 Sep 2002 | GIN Monte Carlo Invitational | −10 (62-67-68=197) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
3 | 29 Mar 2003 | Royal Westmoreland Barbados Open | −10 (70-64-72=206) | 6 strokes | ![]() ![]() |
4 | 5 Apr 2003 | Tobago Plantations Seniors Classic | −13 (68-70-65=203) | 3 strokes | ![]() |
5 | 31 Aug 2003 | Charles Church Scottish Seniors Open | −11 (69-66-70=205) | 2 strokes | ![]() ![]() |
6 | 16 May 2004 | Bosch Italian Seniors Open | −5 (69-74-68=211) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
7 | 14 Aug 2005 | Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open | −11 (67-66-66=199) | 2 strokes | ![]() ![]() |
European Seniors Tour playoff record (0–2)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1998 | AIB Irish Seniors Open | ![]() ![]() | McDermott won with birdie on fifth extra hole Ratcliffe eliminated by par on first hole |
2 | 2004 | Digicel Jamaica Classic | ![]() | Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
Tournament | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Open Championship | T13 | CUT | T44 | T42 | T29 | T28 | CUT | CUT |
Note: Gale only played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1980 and 1985 Open Championships)
"T" = tied
Amateur
Professional
Graham Vivian Marsh MBE is an Australian golfer. He was one of the leading Australian players of his generation. During his career he won more than 70 tournaments around the world, including 10 on the European Tour and 20 on the Japan Golf Tour plus two senior major championships.
Michael Shane Campbell is a New Zealand professional golfer who is best known for having won the 2005 U.S. Open and, at the time, the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia.
Craig David Parry is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2002 WGC-NEC Invitational and the 2004 Ford Championship at Doral.
Stephen John Leaney is a professional golfer from Australia.
Brett Michael Rumford is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia, having formerly been a member on both the PGA Tour and European Tour.
Gregory John Chalmers is an Australian professional golfer. Chalmers has played primarily on the PGA Tour of Australasia and PGA Tour. He is a two-time winner of the Australian Open and late in his career eventually won a PGA Tour event, the 2016 Barracuda Championship.
Peter Anthony O'Malley is an Australian professional golfer.
Peter Albert Charles Senior is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world.
Scott Strange is an Australian professional golfer who competes on the European Tour, OneAsia Tour and the Asian Tour.
Rodger Miles Davis is an Australian professional golfer.
Brendan Mark Jones is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the Japan Golf Tour, where he has won 15 times between 2002 and 2019.
Jarrod James Moseley is an Australian professional golfer.
Lucas John Kendall Parsons is an Australian former professional golfer.
Paul Sheehan is an Australian professional golfer.
Bradley Hughes is an Australian professional golfer.
Roger J. Mackay was an Australian professional golfer.
Nathan Holman is an Australian professional golfer from Melbourne, Australia who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia, the European Tour, and the Asian Tour. In December 2015, he won the Australian PGA Championship for his first professional victory.
Lucas Herbert is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and the PGA Tour. He has won three times on the European Tour and once on the PGA Tour, the 2021 Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Min Woo Lee is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He won the 2020 ISPS Handa Vic Open, the 2021 Abrdn Scottish Open and the 2023 Fortinet Australian PGA Championship on the European Tour. He also won the 2023 SJM Macao Open on the Asian Tour.
Ross Metherell is an Australian professional golfer and golf coach. As a touring professional Metherell largely played in his home state of Western Australia, winning dozens of events including the Western Australian Open twice. Starting in the early 1980s Metherell began working as a golf coach which he would do for most of the remainder of his career. Late in his career, however, he had a brief rebirth as a touring professional, winning two events on the European Senior Tour in August 1999.