Stephen McAllister (born 16 February 1962) is a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
professional
golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
er.
Early life
McAllister was born in
Paisley.
Career
McAllister won the
Lytham Trophy
The Lytham Trophy is an amateur golf tournament founded in 1965 by the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, where it has always been held. It is a 72-hole scratch stroke play competition, and is classified as a Category A event by the World Amateur ...
in 1983 and turned professional later that year. He first played on the
European Tour
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in 1987. His career year was 1990, when he won his only two European Tour titles, the
Atlantic Open and the
KLM Dutch Open
The Dutch Open, now again called the KLM Open, is an annual golf tournament played in the Netherlands, and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the Tour was inaugurated in 1972.
History and sponsorship
Founded in 1912, the tourn ...
, and finished nineteenth on the European Tour Order of Merit. He also won two non-tour professional tournaments, the 1987 Scottish Masters and the 1988 Toyota Cup. His tour career came to an end in 2000 and he later worked as a golf coach and corporate golf manager.
Amateur wins
*1983
Lytham Trophy
The Lytham Trophy is an amateur golf tournament founded in 1965 by the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, where it has always been held. It is a 72-hole scratch stroke play competition, and is classified as a Category A event by the World Amateur ...
Professional wins (4)
European Tour wins (2)
European Tour playoff record (1–0)
Other wins (2)
*1987
Sunderland Sportswear Masters
*1988 Toyota Cup (Denmark)
Results in major championships
''Note: McAllister only played in The Open Championship.''
CUT = missed the half-way cut
Team appearances
Amateur
*
European Amateur Team Championship
The European Amateur Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association which was introduced in 1959.
The championship was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been ...
(representing Scotland):
1983
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...
Professional
*
Dunhill Cup
The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championsh ...
(representing Scotland):
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
References
External links
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Scottish male golfers
European Tour golfers
1962 births
Living people
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