Gordon Brand, Jnr

Gordon Brand, Jnr
Personal information
Full name	Gordon Brand, Jnr
Born	19 August 1958 (1958-08-19) (age 53) Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Nationality	Scotland
Residence	Bristol, England
Career
Turned professional	1981
Current tour(s)	European Tour European Seniors Tour
Professional wins	11
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	8 (tied 30th all time)
European Seniors Tour	1
Other	2
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	T39: 1994
The Open Championship	T5: 1992
PGA Championship	DNP
Achievements and awards
Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year	1982

Gordon Brand, Jnr (born 19 August 1958) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.

Brand was born in Kirkcaldy. He turned professional in 1981 and quickly achieved success. He won that year's European Tour Qualifying School, and went on to win two European Tour events in his rookie season. He went on to accumulate eight wins on the tour in total, the last of them in 1993. He also won the 1988 West End South Australian Open. He made the top ten on the European Tour Order of Merit six times, with a best placing of fourth in 1987. He last made the top one hundred on the Order of Merit in the 2000 season, during which he turned forty-two.

In 1979 Brand played in the Walker Cup amateur team competition. His two Ryder Cup appearances were in 1987, when Europe won on American soil for the first time, and in 1989 when Europe retained the trophy at The Belfry by tying the matches fourteen all. Brand had a 2-4-1 win-loss-tie record, including one tie and one loss in his singles matches. He has represented Scotland in the amateur Eisenhower Trophy and the professional Alfred Dunhill Cup and World Cup many times.

Gordon Brand Jnr should not be confused with his English contemporary Gordon J Brand.

Amateur wins

• 1978 Brabazon Trophy
• 1979 British Youths' Amateur Open Championship, Swedish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship
• 1980 Scottish Youths' Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship, Scottish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship
• 1981 Portuguese Amateur Open Championship

Professional wins

European Tour wins (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	27 Jun 1982	Coral Classic	-15 (69-70-66-68=273)	3 strokes	Greg Norman
2	26 Sep 1982	Bob Hope British Classic	-16 (65-73-65-69=272)	3 strokes	Mark James
3	12 Aug 1984	Celtic International	-8 {67-67-68-70=272)	3 strokes	Ian Baker-Finch, Vicente Fernández, Sandy Lyle
4	9 Sep 1984	Panasonic European Open	-10 (67-66-74-64=270)	3 strokes	Seve Ballesteros, Noel Ratcliffe
5	26 Jul 1987	KLM Dutch Open	-16 (69-67-67-69=272)	1 stroke	David A Russell
6	2 Aug 1987	Scandinavian Enterprise Open	-11 (64-71-71-71=277)	Playoff	Magnus Persson
7	13 Aug 1989	Benson & Hedges International Open	-12 (64-72-72-64=272)	1 stroke	Derrick Cooper
8	12 Sep 1993	GA European Open	-13 (65-68-71-71=275)	7 strokes	Phillip Price, Ronan Rafferty

Other wins (2)

• 1981 European Tour Qualifying School
• 1988 West End South Australian Open

European Seniors Tour wins (1)

• 2010 Matrix Jersey Classic

Results in major championships

Tournament	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	T47	CUT	T26	T20	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T39	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	T32	T5	CUT	T60	DNP	CUT	CUT	14	DNP	T68	T62
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10

Team appearances

Amateur

• Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1979
• Eisenhower Trophy (representing Scotland): 1978, 1980
• St Andrews Trophy: 1976 (winners), 1978 (winners)

Professional

• Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1987 (winners), 1989
• Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Scotland): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997
• World Cup (representing Scotland): 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994
• Four Tours World Championship: 1985, 1988, 1989

External links

• Gordon Brand, Jnr at the European Tour official site

Persondata
Name	Brand, Gordon, Jnr
Alternative names
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	19 August 1958
Place of birth	Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Date of death
Place of death