- Colin Montgomerie
Colin Stuart Montgomerie, OBE (born June 23, 1963) is a Scottish professional golfer often referred to by his nickname 'Monty'. He has had one of the finest careers in European Tour history, having won a record eight Order of Merit titles including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999.
- Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo , winner of six Majors including three Masters Tournaments and three British Open titles, and more than 40 tournaments worldwide, is named CBS Sports' lead analyst for golf. The announcement was made today by Tony Petitti , Executive Vice President and Executive Producer, CBS Sports.
- Justin Rose
Justin Peter Rose (born 30 July 1980) is an English professional golfer. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of five. Rose burst to prominence at The Open Championship in 1998. As a seventeen year old amateur he holed a dramatic shot from the fairway for birdie on the 18th to finish tied for fourth. He turned professional the following week, but initially struggled badly, missing 21 cuts in a row.
- Darren Clarke
Darren Christopher Clarke (born August 14, 1968) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who plays on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone. He played college golf at Wake Forest University in the United States. Clarke has been featured in the top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
- Henrik Stenson
Henrik Stenson (born 5 April 1976) is a Swedish golfer. Stenson was born in Gothenburg. He turned professional in 1999 and the following year topped the money rankings on the second tier golf tour in Europe, the Challenge Tour. He joined the main European Tour in 2001 and has won six European Tour events. In 2005 he finished eighth on the European Order of Merit, and improved his position to sixth a year later.
- Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell (born 30 July 1979) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who divides his time between the European Tour and the PGA Tour. McDowell was born in Portrush, Northern Ireland. Like an increasing number of promising junior UK golfers McDowell took a golf scholarship at an American university. He attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1998 to 2002.
- Paul Casey
Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S. based PGA Tour and the European Tour.
- Ian Poulter
Ian James Poulter is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S. based PGA Tour and the European Tour. Born in Hitchin, Poulter's first professional win was the Open de Côte d'Ivoire on the European Tour's second tier Challenge Tour in 1999, and he won promotion to the European Tour itself via the Qualifying School later that year.
- Angel Cabrera
Ángel Cabrera (born September 12, 1969) is an Argentine professional golfer who plays mainly on the European Tour. Known affectionately as "El Pato" Cabrera ("The duck"), he is the 2007 U.S. Open champion.
- Luke Donald
Luke Donald (born December 7, 1977) is an English golfer who plays mainly on the U.S. based PGA Tour but is also a member of the European Tour. In 2006 he reached the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time in his career. In January 2007 he reached a career high ranking of 7 and was briefly the highest ranked European golfer.
- Trevor Immelman
Trevor John Immelman (born 16 December 1979) is a South African golfer. Immelman was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He took up golf at the age of five. He won the U.S. Amateur Public Links in 1998. Immelman turned professional in 1999. In 2000 he played mainly on the second tier professional tour in Europe, the Challenge Tour, and finished tenth on the Order of Merit.
- Geoff Ogilvy
Geoff Ogilvy (born June 11 1977) is an Australian golfer who now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, in the United States. Ogilvy was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He turned professional in May of 1998 and he won a European Tour card at that year's Qualifying school. He played on the European Tour in 1999 and 2000, finishing 65th in his first season and improving to 48th in his second. He joined the U.S. based PGA Tour in 2001, …
- Robert Karlsson
Robert Karlsson (born 3 September 1969) is a Swedish golfer who plays on the European Tour. Karlsson was born St. Malm, Sweden. His father was a greenkeeper. He turned professional in 1989 and qualified for membership of the European Tour at the 1990 Qualifying School. He has retained his card since then and has had a steady career since then, with five top twenty places on the Order of Merit, including a best of fourth in 2006. He has won seven events on the tour.
- David Howell
David Howell (born 23 June 1975) is an English golfer from Swindon. He has been ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings. Having started playing, training and competing at Broome manor Golf Club, he became a professional in 1995. He won the 1998 Australian PGA Championship, and the 1999 Dubai Desert Classic. He had no further wins for six years, but his form was nonetheless on a general upwards curve.
- Michael Campbell
Michael Shane Campbell CNZM (born February 23, 1969) is a New Zealand golfer who is best-known for having won the 2005 US Open and the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He is a member of the European Tour. Ethnically, he is predominantly Māori, from the Ngati Ruanui (father's side) and Nga Rauru (mother's side) iwi. He also has some Scottish ancestry, being a great-great-great-grandson of John Logan Campbell, …
- Paul McGinley
Paul McGinley (born December 16, 1966) is an Irish golfer who plays on the European Tour. He is most famous for holing the winning putt for the European team in the 2002 Ryder Cup. He currently resides in Sunningdale, England. McGinley was born in Dublin to his father Mick, originally from Letterkenny, County Donegal. He turned professional in 1991. He has won four events on the European Tour.
- Nick Dougherty
Nick Dougherty is an English golfer. He is a protégé of Nick Faldo and had an exceptional amateur career with numerous tournament wins including the 1999 World Boys Championship and three in Faldo Junior Series events. He was a member of the victorious Great Britain and Ireland 2001 Walker Cup team. Dougherty turned professional in 2001 and gained membership of the European Tour via the 2001 Qualifying School. He won the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award for 2002.
- Stephen Ames
Stephen Ames is a golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. Ames was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and is of English/Trinidadian Portuguese descent, and much of his family resides in the Caribbean nation. His grandmother was Trinidad and Tobago Champion 20 times. He grew up in Pointe-à-Pierre and learned to play at the Petrotrin Pointe-à-Pierre Golf Club.
- Niclas Fasth
Niclas Fasth (born 29 April 1972) is a Swedish golfer. Fasth was born in Gothenburg. He turned professional in 1993 and won three events on the second tier European Challenge Tour that year. Since 1994 he has been a member of the European Tour for every season except for 1999. He qualified for the U.S. based PGA Tour at the 1997 Qualifying School, and played the PGA and European Tours concurrently in 1998.
- Jeev Milkha Singh
Jeev Milkha Singh (born 15 December 1971) was the first Indian golfer to become a member of the European Tour. Jeev is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world, breaking into the top 100 in October 2006. He is the son of the famous Indian athlete Milkha Singh. Singh lives in the city of Chandigarh. Singh attended Abilene Christian University in the United States of America and won the NCAA Division II individual golf championship in 1993.
- Louis Oosthuizen
Lodewicus Theodorus "Louis" Oosthuizen (born 19 October 1982) is a South African golfer. Oosthuizen was born in Mossel Bay, South Africa. In 2000 he was a member of the South African team that won the World Amateur Team Championships. He won numerous amateur titles before turning professional in 2002 at the age of 19. He has won three professional tournaments on the Sunshine Tour, …
- Phillip Price
John Phillip Price (born 21 October 1966) is a Welsh golfer who plays on the European Tour. Price was born in Newport. He turned professional in 1989 and qualified for membership of the European Tour for the 1991 season via the 1990 Qualifying School. His best year on the tour came in 2000, when he finished eighth on the Order of Merit. His other top ten placing came in 2003, when he was tenth. He has three tournament wins on the European Tour.
- Mark O'Meara
Mark Francis O'Meara (born January 13, 1957) is an American golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. O'Meara was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. A graduate of Long Beach State University, he has won 16 events on the PGA Tour, starting with the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1984, but he passed his fortieth birthday without winning a major championship.
- Anders Hansen
Anders Hansen (born 16 September 1970) is a Danish golfer. Hansen turned professional in 1995. It took him a few years to establish himself on the European Tour, with his first top 116 Order of Merit finish (the level a player requires to automatically regain his card) coming in 1999. His maiden European Tour victory was the 2002 Volvo PGA Championship and he finished in the top 60 on the Order of Merit every year from 2000 to 2006, with a best of sixteenth in 2002.
- Richard Green
Richard Green (born 19 February 1971) is an Australian golfer. Green was born in Williamstown, Victoria. He turned professional in 1992 and has been a member of the European Tour since 1996. His maiden European Tour win came at the 1997 Dubai Desert Classic, where he became the first left-hander to win on the European Tour since 1975. His consistent performances in 2004 took him to a career best European Tour Order of Merit finish of seventeenth.
- Liang Wen-Chong
Liang Wen-Chong (born 2 August 1978) is a Chinese golfer. He is the highest ranked golfer from the People's Republic of China and the only Chinese golfer in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. He has succeeded his mentor Zhang Lian-wei as the top Chinese player. Liang plays on the Asian Tour and the Japan Golf Tour. He has won several tournaments in China, but his best finish on the Japan Golf Tour is second.
- Sandy Lyle
Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE (born February 9, 1958) is a Scottish golfer. Lyle was born in Shrewsbury, England and represented Scotland during his professional career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain's top golfers during the 1980s. Lyle was introduced to golf by his father, Alex, who had taken the family from Scotland to England in 1955 when he became resident professional at Hawkstone Park golf course.
- Thomas Levet
Thomas Levet (born September 5, 1968) is a French professional golfer. Levet was born in Paris, France. He turned professional in 1988 and won the French PGA Championship that year, but he had to wait for a decade for his first win on the European Tour, which came at the 1998 Cannes Open. In 2002, he finished second at The Open Championship at Muirfield, being one of four players in a playoff.
- Tim Clark
Timothy Henry Clark (born 17 December 1975) is a South African golfer. Clark was born in Durban, South Africa. He took up golf at the age of three and was taught to play by his father. He attended North Carolina State University in the United States, where he had a successful college golf career. During this time he won the 1997 Public Links Championship to qualify for his first PGA Tour event, which was the 1998 Masters Tournament.
- Denis Watson
Denis Leslie Watson (born 18 October 1955) is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe who was joint winningmost player on the PGA Tour in 1984. Watson was born and educated in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). He was Rhodesian Sportsman of the Year in 1975, but he represented South Africa in the World Series of Golf in 1980 and 1982 - sporting connections between Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa were blurred, …
- Alastair Forsyth
Alastair Forsyth is a Scottish golfer. As an amateur was a member of a winning Great Britain & Ireland Jacques Léglise Trophy team in 1994 and he won the 1996 Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship. He turned professional in 1996 and has played on the European Tour since 2000. His best season through 2005 was 2003, when he finished nineteenth on the European Tour Order of Merit. His only European Tour win to date came at the 2002 Malaysian Open.
- Bradley Dredge
Bradley Dredge (born in Tredegar, 6 July 1973) is a Welsh golfer. He turned professional in 1996 and became a member of the European Tour in 1998. He has won twice on the European Tour, at the 2003 Madeira Open and at the 2006 European Masters, and also has two wins on the second tier Challenge Tour. In 2005 he achieved a career best Order of Merit position of 16th, and in the post-season he won the WGC-World Cup for Wales in partnership with Stephen Dodd.
- Simon Dyson
Simon Dyson (born 21 December 1977 in York) is an English golfer. In 1999 Dyson was runner-up in the English Amateur Championship and won the Finnish Amateur title. He was also a member of the Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team that year, before turning professional in September. In 2000 Dyson topped the Asian Tour Order of Merit after winning three tournaments on that tour, and was also Rookie of the Year.
- Markus Brier
Markus Brier (born 5 July 1968) is one of only a few international touring golfers produced by Austria, and as of 2007 is his country's highest ranked player. He won the Swiss and German Amateur Opens in the mid 1990s and turned professional in 1995 at a relatively late age. A third place money list finish on the second tier Challenge Tour in 1999 won him a European Tour card, which he has retained through 2006.
- Daniel Chopra
Daniel Chopra (born 23 December, 1973) is a golfer. Chopra was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He represents Sweden and his mother was Swedish, but his father was Indian and Daniel moved to India at age seven where he was raised by his grandparents. He won the All-India Junior Golf Championship at age 14. Chopra turned professional in 1992. From 1996 to 2002 he played intermittently on the European Tour, sometimes failing to retain his tour card, …
- Kevin Stadler
Kevin Stadler (born February 5, 1980) is an American golfer. Stadler was born in Reno, Nevada. He is the son of former Masters champion and 13-time winner on the PGA Tour Craig Stadler. He moved with his family to Denver, Colorado, where he attended Kent Denver School for high school, where he excelled on the school's golf team. He attended the University of Southern California and turned professional in 2002. In 2004 Stadler won twice on the second tier U.S. based tour, …
- Graeme Storm
Graeme Storm (born 13 March 1978) is an English golfer on the European Tour. Storm was born in Hartlepool. He won The Amateur Championship in 1999 and represented Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup. He turned professional in 2000. For his first few seasons he had difficulty establishing himself on the European Tour, and he worked in a cream cake factory in the off season to finance his early years as a professional.
- Thongchai Jaidee
Thongchai Jaidee is a Thai golfer who plays on the Asian Tour and the European Tour. Thongchai didn't play golf until he was sixteen, and he later went into the Royal Thai Army. He didn't turn professional until he was around thirty years old, but he soon achieved success on the Asian Tour, topping the tour's order of merit in 2001 and 2004. He first played in a major championship in the 2001 U.S. Open and finished tied 74th.
- Jyoti Randhawa
Jyoti Randhawa (born May 4, 1972) is a professional golfer who is ranked in the top 100 of the world and is currently the second highest Indian in the world rankings behind Jeev Milkha Singh. Randhawa was born in New Delhi, India. He turned professional in 1994. He participates on the Asian Tour and the European Tour. In 2002, he finished top on the Asian Tour money list. His best finish on the European Tour is tied second in the 2004 Johnnie Walker Classic.
- Alex Cejka
Alexander Čejka is a German/Czech golfer. Čejka was born in Marienbad, Czech Republic. He left the Czech Republic as a refugee at the age of nine, eventually settling in Munich. Čejka lives in Bullhead City, Arizona, after spending many years in Germany. He also has a home in Prague in his country of birth. Čejka turned professional in 1989 and played on the European Tour from 1992 to 2002. His biggest tournament win was the Volvo Masters at Valderrama in 1995.