Geoff Charles Ogilvy (born 11 June 1977) is an Australian

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. He won the 2006 U.S. Open and has also won three

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Professional career

Ogilvy was born in

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, South Australia, to an English-born father Mike and Australian mother Judy. He turned professional in May 1998 and he won a

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card at that year's

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. 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

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in 2001, and finished in the top 100 in each of his first five seasons. His first professional tournament win came in 2005 at the PGA Tour's Chrysler Classic of Tucson. In February 2006 he beat

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in the final of the 2006 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. Ogilvy won his first major championship at the 2006 U.S. Open, becoming the first Australian to win a men's golf major since Steve Elkington at the 1995

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. Ogilvy finished his round with a champion's flourish, making improbable pars on each of the last two holes. He holed a 30-foot chip shot at the 17th, and then got up-and-down for par at the 18th, dropping a downhill six-footer for his final stroke as all his competitors collapsed around him.

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and

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needed pars on the final hole to win, or bogeys to tie with Ogilvy, but they ruined their chances by producing double-bogey sixes to give Ogilvy a dramatic win. Jim Furyk needed par to force a playoff but bogeyed the final hole. This success moved Ogilvy into the top ten of the

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for the first time, at Number 8. He reached his highest placing to date on 9 July 2006 when he was ranked Number 7, and he returned to that rank in February 2007 after finishing as runner-up to Henrik Stenson while defending his title at the 2007 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. He has spent over 120 weeks in the top-10 of the rankings. Ogilvy won the 2008 WGC-CA Championship, his second World Golf Championship title, by one shot shooting 17-under par. It was his first PGA Tour win since the 2006 U.S. Open. In his next start at the 2008 Shell Houston Open he finished tied for 2nd moving him up to number 5 in the

. In late June 2008, he rose to 3rd in the rankings. In 2009 Ogilvy continued his success at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship defeating

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. Ogilvy moved into second alone in World Golf Championship wins. This win brought him up to 4th in the Official World Golf Rankings. In January 2010, Ogilvy won the SBS Championship, the opening event of the 2010 PGA Tour. Ogilvy won the 2014 Barracuda Championship, a tournament that uses the modified

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scoring system, with a winning score of 49 points. It was his first victory in over 4 years.

Personal

Ogilvy is married to Australian TV personality Bree Laughlin. Ogilvy has three children.

Amateur wins

*1995 Portsea Open Amateur *1996 German Amateur Open Championship *1997 Victorian Amateur Championship, Lake Macquarie Amateur

Professional wins (12)

PGA Tour wins (8)

PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

European Tour wins (4)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

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PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (0–1)

Other wins (2)

*1998 Tasmanian Open *2009 Telus World Skins Game

Major championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

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

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (2003 PGA – 2007 U.S. Open) *Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2005 Open Championship – 2005 PGA)

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place

World Golf Championships

Wins (3)

Results timeline

''Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.'' QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

PGA Tour career summary

''* Complete through the 2018 season.''

Team appearances

Amateur * Nomura Cup (representing Australia): 1997 * Bonallack Trophy (representing Asia/Pacific): 1998 * Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches (representing Victoria): 1995, 1996, 1997 Professional *

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(International Team):

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

References

External links

* * * *
Geoff Ogilvy player profile, Golf Australia

Geoff Ogilvy Foundation
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Professional career

Personal

Amateur wins

Professional wins (12)

PGA Tour wins (8)

European Tour wins (4)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

Other wins (2)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

Summary

Results in The Players Championship

World Golf Championships

Wins (3)

Results timeline

PGA Tour career summary

Team appearances

See also

References

External links