Rodger Miles Davis (born 18 May 1951) is an Australian

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Career

Davis was born in Sydney. He turned professional in 1974 and spent his regular career playing mainly on the

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and the

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. He won the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit in 1990 and 1991. He made the top ten of the European Tour Order of Merit four times in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His seven European Tour wins included two of Europe's most prestigious tournaments; the

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, which he won in 1986 at Wentworth Club, and the season ending

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, which he claimed in 1991. His best finish on the

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was a tie for fifth at the 1986

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. Davis was ranked in the top 10 of the

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for 29 weeks between 1987 and 1992.69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking
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, Davis shot a first round of 64 at Muirfield to lead the tournament by three strokes after the opening round. He finished the championship in a tie for 2nd place with American

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, a stroke behind the champion

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. The 1987 Open Championship is Davis's best finish in a major championship. Davis represented Australia in team competitions several times, and was a member of his country's winning three-man team at the 1986

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. As a senior, he played mainly on the U.S.-based

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(2001–05), where he won once, the 2003 Toshiba Senior Classic. He played on the

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in 2011 and 2012.

Amateur wins

''this list may be incomplete'' *1973 Lake Macquarie Amateur

Professional wins (30)

European Tour wins (7)

European Tour playoff record (3–2)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (14)

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (3–1)

Other Australasian wins (5)

*1977 Rosebud Invitational *1978 South Australia Open,

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, West Australia Open, Mandurah Open

Other wins (1)

*1998 Mauritius Open

Champions Tour wins (1)

Other senior wins (2)

*2009 Handa Australian Senior Open *2015 Australian PGA Seniors Championship

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (1977 Open Championship – 1981 Open Championship) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice)

Team appearances

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(representing Australia):

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airpor ...

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

* Dunhill Cup (representing Australia):

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter ...

(winners),

, 1988,

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engines ...

* Four Tours World Championship (representing Australasia): 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990 (winners), 1991 *

UBS Cup The UBS Cup was a team golf tournament contested by the United States and a team representing the "Rest of the World" which ran from 2001 to 2004. In 2001 and 2002 it was called the UBS Warburg Cup. Six golfers on each side had to be 50 or over, and ...

(representing the Rest of the World): 2002, 2003 (tie), 2004

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Rodger Australian male golfers PGA Tour of Australasia golfers European Tour golfers PGA Tour Champions golfers European Senior Tour golfers Golfers from Sydney 1951 births Living people