Residence: Draper, Utah
DOB: 05/12/1970 |
Left-hander Mike Weir is best known for his victory at the 2003 Masters at Augusta National – making history as the first Canadian to win a golf Major. He was also, incidentally, only the second left-hander to win a Major – the other being Bob Charles in 1962 who beat Phil Rodgers to win the famous claret jug at the Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes. (Phil Mickelson, of course, has now made it a trio). Weir’s first PGA Tour win came at the 1999 Air Canada Championship in British Columbia. He went on to win two more times in 2003 – at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and in Nissan Open – victories which took him to No 3 in the Official World Rankings. In 2004 he added a further Nissan Open trophy to his cabinet. He finished 2006 33rd on the US money list – with no wins, but strong performances at amongst others the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.(3rd), Bob Hope Classic (5th) and US Open (6th). Our biog photo of Mike Weir was taken at the World Golf Championships at Doral in March 2007 where he picked up a paltry $45,000 for coming tied 50th. Hardly worth turning up, was it? |
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Tiger Woods bagged another $1.35m for his two-shot win over Ryder Cup team mate Brett Wetterich at the Blue Monster Course at the Doral Resort in Miami, Florida between 22nd-25th March 2007. No one ever got closer than three shots to Tiger on the final afternoon. The World Golf Championships are played over five continents – and feature the top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings along with top finishers on the money lists of six Tours comprising the International Federation of PGA Tours (PGA TOUR, European Tour, Australasian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Asian Tour and Southern Africa Tour). The formats vary - match play, strokeplay and team - but the purses are always big! The WGC CA Championship is the fifth tournament Woods has won at least three times in a row. |
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| | In Mike Weir's bag... | In Mike's bag at Doral (some of it hidden) is aTaylorMade r7 Superquad driver, TaylorMade Rescue Dual TP. We can only see the front of the irons here, but according to Mike Weir's own website they are TaylorMade RAC TP Combos. He also uses Vokey wedges and TaylorMade Monza Corsa putter.
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