Nick Faldo
| Sir Nick Faldo MBE |
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| — Golfer — | |
Faldo in July 2007
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Nicholas Alexander Faldo |
| Born |
18 July 1957 Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 13.9 st (195 lb; 88 kg) |
| Nationality |
 England
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| Residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
| Spouse | Melanie Rockall (m. 1979–84), Gill Bennett (m. 1986–98), Valerie Bercher (m. 2001–06) |
| Children | Natalie, Matthew, Georgia, Emma Scarlet |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1976 |
| Current tour(s) | Champions Tour |
| Former tour(s) |
PGA Tour European Tour |
| Professional wins | 41 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 9 |
| European Tour | 30 (5th all time) |
| Other | 8 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 6) |
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| Masters Tournament | Won: 1989, 1990, 1996 |
| U.S. Open | 2nd: 1988 |
| The Open Championship | Won: 1987, 1990, 1992 |
| PGA Championship | T2: 1992 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 1997 (member page) |
| European Tour Order of Merit winner |
1983, 1992 |
| European Tour Golfer of the Year |
1989, 1990, 1992 |
| European Tour Rookie of the Year |
1977 |
| PGA Player of the Year | 1990 |
| BBC Sports Personality of the Year |
1989 |
| Member of the Order of the British Empire |
1998 |
| Knight Bachelor | 2009 |
| Payne Stewart Award | 2014 |
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo, MBE (born 18 July 1957) is an English professional golfer on the European Tour, now mainly an on-air golf analyst. A top player of his era, renowned for his single-minded dedication to the game, he was ranked No. 1 on the Official World Golf Ranking for a total of 97 weeks. His 40 professional wins include 30 victories on the European Tour and six major championships: three Open Championships (1987, 1990, 1992) and three Masters (1989, 1990, 1996).
Faldo has since become a television pundit for major golf championships. In 2006, he became the lead golf analyst for CBS Sports. In 2012, Faldo joined the BBC Sport on-air team for coverage of the Open Championship.
Born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, Faldo "became hooked" on golf at the age of 14—having never "even picked up a golf club" himself, watching Jack Nicklaus play the 1971 Masters on his parent's "new colour" television (his very first exposure to the game). Just three years later, Faldo won the 1975 English Amateur and the British Youths Championship. Faldo describes his late discovery of golf enthusiastically, saying that he "love[d] school, until golf came along"—after which "the only thing [he] was interested in was getting out of the gates as quick as possible and going to the golf course."
Faldo achieved instant European Tour successes, finishing eighth on the Order of Merit in 1977, and third in 1978; and winning a European Tour event in each of those seasons (in 1977, he became the then-youngest Ryder Cup player at the age of 20).
Faldo continued his European Tour successes in the early-1980s, winning two consecutive Sun Alliance PGA Championship's in England, in 1980 and 1981. Faldo finished top of the Order of Merit in 1983, with five European Tour victories.
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