Ronnie Shade

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name = Ronnie Shade


birth date = 1938
birth place = Edinburgh, Scotland
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nationality = Scottish
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year professional = 1968
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professional wins = 3 (Carroll's International 1969, Scottish PGA Championship 1970, Mufulira Open (Zambia) 1975)
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Ronald David Bell Mitchell "Ronnie" Shade MBE (born Edinburgh, 1938, died 1986) was a Scottish golfer who enjoyed unrivalled success as an Amateur player in the 1960s, winning five consecutive Scottish Amateur Championships from 1963 to 1967 (Shade had also lost in the final in 1962). In 1966, he also finished as leading individual player at the Eisenhower Trophy, as leading Amateur in The Open Championship, and reached the final of the British Amateur Championship, losing to Bobby Cole. He represented Britain and Ireland in the Walker Cup on four occasions, and was three times winner of the English Amateur Open Strokeplay Championship (the Brabazon Trophy).

Shade was awarded the MBE as an amateur, and decided to turn professional at the relatively late age of 30. Often referred to by fellow players as "Right Down the Bloody Middle", a nickname based on his initials, he did not enjoy as many victories as a professional as his amateur record might have foretold, although he won the Carroll's International in 1969, in his rookie season, and represented Scotland at the World Cup in 1970, 1971 and 1972. His strength at matchplay golf remained proven, however - he was runner-up at the British PGA Matchplay Championship in 1970, and was a semi-finalist on two further occasions.

Shade died in 1986 after a long illness.

References

*Alliss, Peter: "The Who's Who of Golf" (1983), Orbis Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-85613-520-8.

External links

* [http://www.scottishgolfview.com/2007/01/shade-mechanical-man-who-won-five.html] ]