David Drysdale

Residence: Cockburnspath, Berwickshire

DOB: 19/03/1975

David started playing golf at the age of 12 and, at 17, experienced playing in The 1992 Open Championship at Muirfield where he acted as a marker for, firstly, Roger Chapman and then John Daly over the final two rounds. David has become something of an expert in dramatic end of season finales, starting in 2003, when he narrowly missed out on retaining his European Tour card. Then, twelve months later, he secured a last-minute return at the Challenge Tour Grand Final, winning a sudden-death play-off against Mattias Eliasson to finish 12th on the Rankings and regain his playing privileges. Then followed two years where he finished, agonisingly, one place outside of those who kept their playing privileges by right. Missed out by €586 in 2005 and €1,139 in 2006. Incredibly, also missed out by a shot at the 2005 Qualifying School – Final Stage, but put that right in 2006 when he took third place at San Roque. He won back his card once again at the Qualifying School in 2007 after an injury ravaged season and yet again in 2008, this time at the PGA Golf de Catalunya. Now back at full health David is enjoying a better run of form in 2009. A third place finish at the Joburg Open got the season off to a cracking start. He followed this up with top-10’s at the BMW International Open and Open de Andalucia.