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Nick O'Hern Personal information Full name Nicholas Simon O'Hern Born 18 October 1971
Perth, Western AustraliaHeight 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Nationality 
AustraliaResidence Perth, Western Australia Career Turned professional 1994 Current tour(s) PGA Tour
European Tour
PGA Tour of AustralasiaProfessional wins 5 Number of wins by tour PGA Tour of Australasia 2 Best results in Major Championships Masters Tournament T19: 2006 U.S. Open T6: 2006 The Open Championship T15: 2005 PGA Championship T31: 2004 Achievements and awards PGA Tour of Australasia
Order of Merit winner2006 Nicholas Simon O'Hern (born 18 October 1971) is an Australian professional golfer.
O'Hern has played on both of the world's premier professional golf tours, the European Tour, and the United States based PGA Tour. His biggest successes though, have come at home on the PGA Tour of Australasia, where he won the Order of Merit as the leading money winner in 2006.
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Personal life
O'Hern was born in Perth, Western Australia. His father was a three-handicap golfer who played baseball for Australia, and he followed him by playing baseball for Western Australia. He was also a talented tennis player, but he chose to concentrate on golf.
Career
O'Hern took up golf at the age of nine and plays left-handed. He turned professional in 1994. He was successful at the European Tour qualifying school at his first attempt in 1998 and played regularly on the European Tour from 1999 through 2007. He has not won on the European Tour, but had two second place finishes in 2003, two more in 2004 and one each in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
In 2005 O'Hern has begun to play quite regularly in the United States. He was not a member of the PGA Tour, but having reached the top twenty of the Official World Golf Rankings, he received a substantial number of invitations and sponsors exemptions for PGA Tour events. In 2006 he became a member of the PGA Tour on the basis of his membership of the International Team at the 2005 Presidents Cup, and has since played mostly on that tour.
Also in 2006, O'Hern won the Australian PGA Championship, after holed out from the greenside bunker for birdie on the fourth hole of a two-man play-off with Peter Lonard. The win brought to and end a 7 year drought for O'Hern, and propelled him to the top of the PGA Tour of Australasia's Order of Merit for 2006.[1] He has won a total of five tournaments in Australia, and continues to play on the PGA Tour of Australasia during the northern hemisphere winter.
O'Hern has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings, and he is the only player who has beaten Tiger Woods in matchplay more than once. He is coached by Neil Simpson, Peter Thomson and Lewis Freiberg of the Mount Lawley Golf Club in Perth, Western Australia.
Knee surgery ended O'Hern's 2010 season after 11 events. He started the 2011 season on a medical exemption. O'Hern satisfied his medical exemption in May 2011 with four events remaining to retain his PGA Tour status. On 6 June, O'Hern went through sectional qualifying and secured a spot in the 2011 U.S. Open.
O'Hern has never won on the PGA Tour; his best finish is a T2 at the 2006 Booz Allen Classic.
Ball marking
O'Hern's ball marking has become famous because of its originality. In an ode to his native Australia, O'Hern marks his Titleist Pro V1 with a drawn-on kangaroo. The marking has been featured in Titleist advertisements.
Amateur wins
- 1991 Mount Lawley Championship
Professional wins (5)
PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)
- 1999 Schweppes Coolum Classic
- 2006 Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship
Other wins (3)
- 1997 Port Hedland PGA Classic
- 1998 Port Hedland PGA Classic, South West Open
Results in major championships
Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T45 T19 CUT CUT DNP U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T49 T6 T23 DNP DNP The Open Championship 41 DNP DNP CUT DNP T15 CUT CUT T32 DNP PGA Championship DNP CUT DNP DNP T31 CUT CUT T50 CUT DNP Tournament 2010 2011 The Masters DNP DNP U.S. Open DNP CUT The Open Championship DNP DNP PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.Team appearances
- Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Australia): 2000
- World Cup (representing Australia): 2004, 2007
- Presidents Cup (International team): 2005, 2007
References
- ^ "O'Hern ends long wait for victory". BBC Sport. 10 December 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/6163993.stm. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
External links
- Nick O'Hern at the PGA Tour of Australasia official site
- Nick O'Hern at the European Tour official site
- Nick O'Hern at the PGA Tour official site
- Nick O'Hern at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
International Presidents Cup team – 2005 Stuart Appleby • 
Ángel Cabrera • 
Michael Campbell • 
Tim Clark • Retief Goosen • Mark Hensby • Trevor Immelman • Peter Lonard • Nick O'Hern • Adam Scott • 
Vijay Singh • 
Mike Weir
Gary Player (non-playing captain)Lost: 15.5 – 18.5 International Presidents Cup team – 2007 Stuart Appleby • Ángel Cabrera • 
K.J. Choi • Ernie Els • Retief Goosen • Trevor Immelman • Nick O'Hern • Geoff Ogilvy • Rory Sabbatini • Adam Scott • Vijay Singh • Mike Weir
Gary Player (non-playing captain)Lost: 14.5 – 19.5 Categories:- Australian male golfers
- PGA Tour of Australasia golfers
- European Tour golfers
- PGA Tour golfers
- 1971 births
- Living people
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