Mark McNulty

This article is about the professional golfer. For the Irish football player, see Mark McNulty (footballer).

Mark McNulty
Personal information
Full name	Mark William McNulty
Born	25 October 1953 (1953-10-25) (age 58) Bindura, Southern Rhodesia
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	160 lb (73 kg; 11 st)
Nationality	Zimbabwe  Ireland
Career
College	None
Turned professional	1977
Current tour(s)	Champions Tour
Former tour(s)	Sunshine Tour European Tour PGA Tour
Professional wins	59
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	16 (14th all time)
Sunshine Tour	33 (2nd all time)
Champions Tour	8
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	T16: 1988
U.S. Open	T17: 1988
The Open Championship	T2: 1990
PGA Championship	T8: 1990
Achievements and awards
Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Winner	1980/81, 1981/82, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1986/87, 1992/93, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2000/01

Mark William McNulty (born 25 October 1953) is an Irish/Zimbabwean professional golfer currently playing on the Champions Tour. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, and cracked the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992.^[1]

McNulty was born in Bindura, Southern Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). He was raised on a farm in the Centenary area of Zimbabwe. His step-father was an amateur pilot who had an airstrip on the farm. When his step-father was diagnosed with epilepsy, he was forced to give up flying, so he converted the airstrip into a three-hole golf course. This is where Mark first learned to play golf.

McNulty became a citizen of Ireland in 2003 at the age of 50. He was eligible to do so because his maternal grandmother was born in Ballymena in Northern Ireland. He explained that his reason for doing so was his concern that as a non-resident Zimbabwean it could take him up to two years to get his passport renewed if he lost it. He further explained at the 2009 British Seniors' Open that "Mr. Mugabe no longer wanted me as a Zimbabwean". Commentators elaborated that the farm that his family had been managing for 40-something years had been confiscated by the Mugabe regime. He currently lives in Sunningdale, England.

Career

After a successful amateur career, McNulty began his professional career on the Southern African Tour (now the Sunshine Tour) and also played on the European Tour starting in 1978. His first professional win was the 1979 Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open in South Africa. By 1986 he was a dominant player on the Southern African Tour, picking up seven official wins in that year and also winning South Africa's most lucrative event, the Million Dollar Challenge. In the same year he finished in the top ten on the European Tour's Order of Merit for the first time, placing sixth. He had six top ten European Order of Merit finishes in total, including second places in 1987 and 1990. The last of these was in 1996, when he came fifth. His win tally on the European Tour was sixteen, including the 1996 Volvo Masters, which is the European equivalent of the PGA Tour's Tour Championship. He won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit nine times: 1980/81, 1981/82, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1986/87, 1992/93, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2000/01.

When McNulty turned fifty and became eligible to play senior golf he chose to take part in the U.S.-based Champions Tour. His first full season in 2004 was highly successful with three wins (including the Charles Schwab Cup Championship) and a seventh place finish on the money list. In 2007 he won the JELD-WEN Tradition, one of the five major championships on the over-50 tour. It was McNulty's sixth career win on the Champions Tour. His seventh win came in 2009 at the Principal Charity Classic with a playoff win over Nick Price and Fred Funk.

McNulty lists his interests as piano, fine arts and koi fish.

Amateur wins (2)

• 1974 Rhodesia Amateur Championship
• 1977 South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins (58)

European Tour wins (16)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	24 Jun 1979	Greater Manchester Open	-13 (64-66-71-66=267)	5 strokes	Manuel Piñero
2	24 Aug 1980	Braun German Open	-8 (71-70-70-69=280)	1 stroke	Tony Charnley, Neil Coles
3	26 Oct 1986	Portuguese Open	-18 (66-69-69-66=270)	1 stroke	Ian Mosey
4	31 May 1987	London Standard Four Stars National Pro-Celebrity	-15 (70-67-69-67=273)	Playoff	Sam Torrance
5	7 Jun 1987	Dunhill British Masters	-14 (71-65-71-67=274)	1 stroke	Ian Woosnam
6	30 Aug 1987	German Open	-25 (65-66-65-63=259)	3 strokes	Antonio Garrido
7	17 Apr 1988	Cannes Open	-9 (72-71-70-66=279)	3 strokes	Ron Commans, Joey Sindelar
8	8 Jul 1989	Torras Monte Carlo Open	-15 (68-64-64-65=261)	6 strokes	José Maria Cañizares, Jeff Hawkes
9	16 Apr 1990	Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open	-8 (69-71-69-71=280)	1 stroke	Ronan Rafferty
10	26 Aug 1990	Volvo German Open	-18 (67-68-70-65=270)	3 strokes	Craig Parry
11	25 Aug 1991	Volvo German Open	-15 (68-67-72-66=273)	Playoff	Paul Broadhurst
12	7 Aug 1994	BMW International Open	-14 (70-71-68-65=274)	1 stroke	Seve Ballesteros
13	11 Feb 1996	Dimension Data Pro-Am	-6 (69-67-73-73=282)	4 strokes	Brenden Pappas, Nick Price, Ricky Willison
14	28 Jul 1996	Sun Microsystems Dutch Open	-18 (67-65-66-68=266)	1 stroke	Scott Hoch
15	27 Oct 1996	Volvo Masters	-8 (72-69-67-68-276)	7 strokes	José Cóceres, Sam Torrance, Wayne Westner, Lee Westwood
16	28 Jan 2001	Mercedes-Benz South African Open	-8 (69-71-69-71=280)	1 stroke	Justin Rose

Sunshine Tour wins (33)

• 1979 (1) Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open
• 1981 (1) SAB South African Masters
• 1982 (4) SISA Classic, SAB Masters, Sharp Electronics Classic, Sun City Classic
• 1984 (1) Pan Am Wild Coast Sun Classic
• 1985 (3) Palabora Classic, Royal Swazi Sun Open, Safmarine Masters
• 1986 (7) Safmarine Masters, Wild Coast Classic, Barclays Bank Classic, Swazi Sun Pro Am, Trustbank Tournament of Champions, Helix Wild Coast Classic, Germiston Centenary Tournament
• 1987 (4) Southern Suns South African Open, AECI Charity Classic, Royal Swazi Sun Pro-Am, Trustbank Tournament of Champion
• 1992 (1) Zimbabwe Open (co-sanctioned with the Challenge Tour)
• 1993 (2) Lexington PGA Championship, FNB Players Championship
• 1996 (1) Zimbabwe Open
• 1997 (2) San Lameer SA Masters, Nashua Wild Coast Sun Challenge
• 1998 (1) Vodacom Players Championship
• 2000 (2) Stenham Swazi Open, CABS Old Mutual Zimbabwe Open
• 2001 (2) Nashua Nedtel Cellular Masters, Mercedes-Benz South African Open (co-sanctioned with the European Tour)
• 2002 (1) Vodacom Players Championship

Other wins (3)

• 1980 (1) Malaysian Open
• 1986 (1) Million Dollar Challenge
• 1988 (1) Benson and Hedges Trophy (with Marie-Laure de Lorenzi) (Spain)

Champions Tour wins (8)

Legend Champions Tour major championships (1) Other Champions Tour (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	22 Feb 2004	Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am	-13 (67-65-68=200)	1 stroke	Larry Nelson
2	17 Oct 2004	SBC Championship	-18 (67-63-65=195)	8 strokes	Gary McCord
3	24 Oct 2004	Charles Schwab Cup Championship	-11 (69-74-68-66=177)	1 stroke	Tom Kite
4	26 Jun 2005	Bank of America Championship	-12 (67-69-68=204)	Playoff	Don Pooley, Tom Purtzer
5	16 Oct 2005	Administaff Small Business Classic	-16 (66-68-66=200)	1 stroke	Gil Morgan
6	19 Aug 2007	JELD-WEN Tradition	-16 (66-68-70-68=272)	5 strokes	David Edwards
7	31 May 2009	Principal Charity Classic	-10 (68-69-66=203)	Playoff	Fred Funk, Nick Price
8	24 Apr 2011	Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with David Eger)	-27 (64-64-61=189)	Playoff	Scott Hoch & Kenny Perry

Results in major championships

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T16	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	T53	CUT	T50	CUT	CUT	T35	T66	T17	CUT
The Open Championship	T23	T23	T54	T45	DNP	CUT	T59	T11	T28	T11
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	T54	DNP	DNP	T70	CUT	WD	T17	DNP

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Masters	DNP	T35	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	T33	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	T28	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T2	T64	T28	T14	T11	T40	T14	32	CUT	T37
PGA Championship	T8	T27	DNP	CUT	T15	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T11	CUT	DNP	T53
PGA Championship	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP

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

Champions Tour major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runner(s)-up
2007	JELD-WEN Tradition	−16 (66−68−70−68=272)	5 strokes	David Edwards

Results timeline

Results not in chronological order before 2011.

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
The Tradition	DNP	8	T46	1	T25	T25	DNP	T16
Senior PGA Championship	T7	T6	T19	DNP	DNP	T17	DNP	T34
Senior British Open Championship	T5	8	T27	T34	T16	T2	DNP	T44
U.S. Senior Open	T19	T7	T14	T18	3	T36	DNP	T48
Senior Players Championship	T9	T11	T41	T31	T52	DNP	DNP	T28

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

Amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy (representing Rhodesia): 1974

Professional

• Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000
• World Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
• Presidents Cup (International team): 1994, 1996
• UBS Cup: 2004

See also

• Golfers with most European Tour wins
• Golfers with most Sunshine Tour wins

References

1. ^ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking

External links

• Mark McNulty at the European Tour official site
• Mark McNulty at the PGA Tour official site
• Mark McNulty at the Sunshine Tour official site
• An article about McNulty's assumption of Irish citizenship

Persondata
Name	McNulty, Mark
Alternative names	McNulty, Mark William
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	25 October 1953
Place of birth	Bindura, Southern Rhodesia
Date of death
Place of death