Geoff Ogilvy | |||||
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![]() Ogilvy in 2017 | |||||
Personal information | |||||
Full name | Geoff Charles Ogilvy | ||||
Born | (1977-06-11)11 June 1977 (age 47) Adelaide, South Australia | ||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||
Weight | 180 lb (82 kg; 13 st) | ||||
Sporting nationality | ![]() | ||||
Residence | Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. | ||||
Spouse | Bree Laughlin | ||||
Children | 3 | ||||
Career | |||||
Turned professional | 1998 | ||||
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour PGA Tour of Australasia | ||||
Former tour(s) | European Tour | ||||
Professional wins | 12 | ||||
Highestranking | 3 (29 June 2008)[1] | ||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||
PGA Tour | 8 | ||||
European Tour | 4 | ||||
PGA Tour of Australasia | 2 | ||||
Other | 2 | ||||
Best results in major championships (wins: 1) | |||||
Masters Tournament | T4:2011 | ||||
PGA Championship | T6:2005,2007 | ||||
U.S. Open | Won:2006 | ||||
The Open Championship | T5:2005 | ||||
Achievements and awards | |||||
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Geoff Charles Ogilvy[citation needed] (born 11 June 1977) is an Australianprofessional golfer. He won the2006 U.S. Open and has also won threeWorld Golf Championships.
Ogilvy was born inAdelaide, South Australia, to an English-born father Mike and Australian mother Judy. He turned professional in May 1998 and he won aEuropean Tour card at that year'sQualifying school. He played on the European Tour in 1999 and 2000, finishing 65th in his first season and improving to 48th in his second. He joined the U.S. basedPGA Tour in 2001, and finished in the top 100 in each of his first five seasons. His first professional tournament win came in 2005 at the PGA Tour'sChrysler Classic of Tucson. In February 2006 he beatDavis Love III in the final of the2006 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
Ogilvy won his firstmajor championship at the2006 U.S. Open, becoming the first Australian to win a men's golf major sinceSteve Elkington at the 1995PGA Championship. Ogilvy finished his round with a champion's flourish, making improbable pars on each of the last two holes. He holed a 30-footchip shot at the 17th, and then got up-and-down for par at the 18th, dropping a downhill six-footer for his final stroke as all his competitors collapsed around him.Phil Mickelson andColin Montgomerie needed pars on the final hole to win, or bogeys to tie with Ogilvy, but they ruined their chances by producing double-bogey sixes to give Ogilvy a dramatic win.Jim Furyk needed par to force a playoff but bogeyed the final hole.
This success moved Ogilvy into the top ten of theOfficial World Golf Rankings for the first time, at Number 8. He reached his highest placing to date on 9 July 2006 when he was ranked Number 7, and he returned to that rank in February 2007 after finishing as runner-up toHenrik Stenson while defending his title at the 2007WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. He has spent over 120 weeks in the top-10 of the rankings.[2][3]
Ogilvy won the 2008WGC-CA Championship, his secondWorld Golf Championship title, by one shot shooting 17-under par. It was his first PGA Tour win since the2006 U.S. Open. In his next start at the 2008Shell Houston Open he finished tied for 2nd moving him up to number 5 in theOfficial World Golf Rankings.[4] In late June 2008, he rose to 3rd in the rankings.[5] In 2009 Ogilvy continued his success at theWGC-Accenture Match Play Championship defeatingPaul Casey. Ogilvy moved into second alone in World Golf Championship wins. This win brought him up to 4th in the Official World Golf Rankings.
In January 2010, Ogilvy won theSBS Championship, the opening event of the 2010 PGA Tour.[6]
Ogilvy won the 2014 Barracuda Championship, a tournament that uses the modifiedStableford scoring system, with a winning score of 49 points. It was his first victory in over 4 years.
Ogilvy is married to Australian TV personality Bree Laughlin. Ogilvy has three children.[citation needed]
Legend |
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Major championships (1) |
World Golf Championships (3) |
Other PGA Tour (4) |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 27 Feb2005 | Chrysler Classic of Tucson | −19 (65-66-67-71=269) | Playoff | ![]() ![]() |
2 | 26 Feb2006 | WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship | 3 and 2 | ![]() | |
3 | 18 Jun 2006 | U.S. Open | +5 (71-70-72-72=285) | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
4 | 24 Mar2008 | WGC-CA Championship | −17 (65-67-68-71=271) | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5 | 11 Jan2009 | Mercedes-Benz Championship | −24 (67-68-65-68=268) | 6 strokes | ![]() ![]() |
6 | 1 Mar 2009 | WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (2) | 4 and 3 | ![]() | |
7 | 10 Jan2010 | SBS Championship (2) | −22 (69-66-68-67=270) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
8 | 3 Aug2014 | Barracuda Championship | 49 pts (16-7-12-14=49) | 5 points | ![]() |
PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
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1 | 2005 | Chrysler Classic of Tucson | ![]() ![]() | Won with birdie on second extra hole Calcavecchia eliminated by par on first hole |
Legend |
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Major championships (1) |
World Golf Championships (3) |
Other European Tour (0) |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 26 Feb2006 | WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship | 3 and 2 | ![]() | |
2 | 18 Jun 2006 | U.S. Open | +5 (71-70-72-72=285) | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
3 | 23 Mar2008 | WGC-CA Championship | −17 (65-67-68-71=271) | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
4 | 1 Mar2009 | WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (2) | 4 and 3 | ![]() |
Legend |
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Flagship events (1) |
Other PGA Tour of Australasia (1) |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 7 Dec2008 | Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship | −14 (67-71-67-69=274) | 2 strokes | ![]() |
2 | 5 Dec2010 | Australian Open1 | −19 (68-65-67-69=269) | 4 strokes | ![]() ![]() |
1Co-sanctioned by theOneAsia Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2010 | Australian PGA Championship | ![]() | Lost to par on second extra hole |
Year | Championship | 54 holes | Winning score | Margin | Runners-up |
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2006 | U.S. Open | 1 shot deficit | +5 (71-70-72-72=285) | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
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Masters Tournament | T16 | T24 | T39 | T15 | |||||||
U.S. Open | CUT | T28 | 1 | T42 | T9 | T47 | |||||
The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | T5 | T16 | CUT | CUT | CUT | ||||
PGA Championship | T27 | T24 | T6 | T9 | T6 | T31 | T43 |
Tournament | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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Masters Tournament | T26 | T4 | T19 | 48 | |||
U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | CUT | T32 | CUT | T18 | CUT |
The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | T9 | T44 | T40 | ||
PGA Championship | CUT | CUT | T11 | CUT | T46 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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Masters Tournament | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 8 |
U.S. Open | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 7 |
The Open Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 5 |
PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 9 |
Totals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 46 | 29 |
Tournament | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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The Players Championship | CUT | T21 | T16 | CUT | CUT | T37 | CUT | T22 | CUT | WD | T12 | CUT | 69 | T24 | CUT |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Year | Championship | 54 holes | Winning score | Margin | Runner(s)-up |
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2006 | WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship | n/a | 3 and 2 | ![]() | |
2008 | WGC-CA Championship | 4 strokes | −17 (65-67-68-71=271) | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2009 | WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (2) | n/a | 4 and 3 | ![]() |
Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.
Tournament | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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Championship | T3 | 1 | T40 | T45 | T49 | T55 | T47 | 61 | |||
Match Play | 1 | 2 | R64 | 1 | R32 | R16 | R64 | ||||
Invitational | T41 | T36 | T51 | T68 | T22 | T22 | T37 | T24 | |||
Champions | T10 | T56 | T51 |
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
Year | Wins (Majors) | Earnings (US$) | Rank |
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2001 | 0 | 525,338 | 95 |
2002 | 0 | 957,184 | 64 |
2003 | 0 | 1,477,246 | 45 |
2004 | 0 | 1,236,910 | 61 |
2005 | 1 | 1,931,676 | 33 |
2006 | 2 (1) | 4,354,969 | 5 |
2007 | 0 | 2,943,203 | 14 |
2008 | 1 | 2,880,099 | 15 |
2009 | 2 | 3,866,270 | 8 |
2010 | 1 | 2,393,045 | 29 |
2011 | 0 | 1,916,994 | 43 |
2012 | 0 | 1,255,223 | 71 |
2013 | 0 | 892,920 | 93 |
2014 | 1 | 1,809,632 | 54 |
2015 | 0 | 653,925 | 139 |
2016 | 0 | 397,595 | 167 |
2017 | 0 | 867,249 | 114 |
2018 | 0 | 93,947 | 211 |
Career* | 8 (1) | 30,453,426 | 30 |
* Complete through the 2018 season.
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