17 October 1969DATE OF BIRTH |
1.91MHEIGHT |
Johannesburg, South AfricaBIRTHPLACE |
A three-time winner on the PGA Tour Champions after winning the Hoag Classic earlier this year, Ernie Els is one of the world’s truly global golfers with more than 70 victories worldwide, including 28 DP World Tour titles and 19 PGA Tour victories. Four of those triumphs came in the form of Major Championships with the South African securing The Open Championship and U.S. Open on two occasions. The former World Number One spent a record 758 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking and was European Number One twice, in 2003 and 2004.
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Els was the leading career money winner on the DP World Tour until overtaken by Lee Westwood in 2011.