Paul Casey

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Paul Casey
Personal information
Full name Paul Alexander Casey
Born (1977-07-21) 21 July 1977 (age 35)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight 180 lb (82 kg; 13 st)
Nationality  England
Residence Weybridge, Surrey, England
Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Career
College Arizona State University
Turned professional November 2000
Current tour(s) European Tour (joined 2001)
PGA Tour (joined 2005)
Professional wins 14
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 1
European Tour 11
Other 2
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament T6: 2004
U.S. Open T10: 2007
The Open Championship T3: 2010
PGA Championship T12: 2010
Achievements and awards
European Tour
Player of the Year		 2006
Sir Henry Cotton
Rookie of the Year		 2001

Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. In 2009 he achieved his highest position, third, in the Official World Golf Ranking.[1][2]

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Career [edit]

Casey was born in Cheltenham, but moved with his family to Weybridge, Surrey at the age of six. After attending Cleves School, Weybridge and then Hampton School, he studied A levels at Strode's College, Egham. He then took a golf scholarship at Arizona State University.

His amateur career was distinguished. In the U.S. he was the first man to win three consecutive Pac-10 Championships (1998, 1999 and 2000). In 2000 he broke the championship scoring record held by Tiger Woods (18 under par) with a 23 under par 265. Back on the other side of the Atlantic he won the English Amateur in 1999 and 2000. He was also a member of Great Britain and Ireland's winning 1999 Walker Cup team, where he was only the third player in seventy seven years to record four victories without a single defeat.

Casey joined the European Tour in May 2001 and recorded a second in his fifth event and a win in his eleventh, the Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship, ending that season 22nd on the order of merit and collecting the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award. After a disappointing second season he won the ANZ Championship and the Benson and Hedges International Open in 2003, and came sixth on the Order of Merit.

Casey did not win any individual titles in 2004, but he was a member of the victorious European Ryder Cup team and also won the WGC-World Cup for England in partnership with Luke Donald. Another highlight of his year was a sixth place finish in his first Masters. He joined the PGA Tour shortly afterwards as a Special Temporary Member and his membership of the 2004 European Ryder Cup Team qualified him for membership of the U.S. based tour for the 2005 season. However he continues to play mainly in Europe, and was the leader of the European Tour Order of Merit in 2006, until Pádraig Harrington overtook him in the final event. He re-joined the PGA Tour in 2009.

Casey has featured in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking and was the highest ranked Englishman for a time. In January 2007 he reached a career high of #13 in the rankings.[3]

In 2006, Casey won the HSBC World Match Play Championship at Wentworth, beating Shaun Micheel 10 and 8 in a record victory for the final. Casey became the only player in Ryder Cup history to win a foursome match with a hole-in-one on Saturday, 23 September 2006, in Ireland.

Casey sparked controversy in November 2004, when in an interview for the Sunday Times newspaper he reportedly said, of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, "Oh, we properly hate them. We wanted to beat them as badly as possible". Several leading American golfers, including Fred Funk and Davis Love III, publicly dismissed the controversy surrounding Casey as tabloid mischief. Casey later apologised saying the remarks were taken out of context and using the word "hate" was an error. Casey has an American coach (Peter Kostis) and girlfriend and says he "has nothing against America".[4]

Casey earned his first PGA Tour win on 5 April 2009 by defeating J. B. Holmes in a one-hole playoff at the Shell Houston Open.[5] This win took him to #6 in the Official World Golf Ranking.[6]

Casey won his milestone 10th event on the European Tour at the 2009 BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, where he won by one stroke over Wentworth resident and fellow Englishman Ross Fisher. This win vaulted Casey to a career high of 3rd in the Official World Golf Ranking.[1] He had been ranked at #41 at the beginning of 2009.[2] Casey suffered a rib injury at the 2009 Open Championship, limited the amount of golf he could play in the second half of 2009.

In January 2011, Casey won the Volvo Golf Champions tournament in Bahrain, which was his first win for 20 months.[7]

Casey won the 2012 Telus World Skins Game in Canada, having defeated Jhonattan Vegas in a tiebreaker during the event in July.[8]

Amateur wins (5) [edit]

Professional wins (14) [edit]

PGA Tour wins (1) [edit]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 5 Apr 2009 Shell Houston Open –11 (66-70-69-72=277) Playoff United States J. B. Holmes

PGA Tour playoff record (1-0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
2 2009 Shell Houston Open United States J.B. Holmes Won with bogey on first extra hole

European Tour wins (11) [edit]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 26 Aug 2001 Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship –14 (69-69-67-69=274) 1 stroke Germany Alex Čejka
2 9 Feb 2003 ANZ Championship 45 pts (8-10-21-6=45) 4 points Australia Stuart Appleby, Australia Nick O'Hern
3 11 May 2003 Benson & Hedges International Open –11 (71-69-66-71=277) 4 strokes Republic of Ireland Pádraig Harrington
4 20 Mar 2005 TCL Classic1 –22 (64-68-68-66=266) Playoff Republic of Ireland Paul McGinley
5 27 Nov 2005 Volvo China Open1 –13 (71-69-70-65=275) Playoff England Oliver Wilson
6 25 Jun 2006 Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles –16 (67-71-66-72=276) 1 stroke England Andrew Marshall, Denmark Søren Hansen
7 17 Sep 2006 HSBC World Match Play Championship 10 & 8 United States Shaun Micheel
8 21 Jan 2007 Abu Dhabi Golf Championship –17 (71-68-67-65=271) 1 stroke Sweden Peter Hanson, Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez
9 18 Jan 2009 Abu Dhabi Golf Championship –21 (69-65-63-70=267) 1 stroke Germany Martin Kaymer, South Africa Louis Oosthuizen
10 24 May 2009 BMW PGA Championship –17 (69-67-67-68=271) 1 stroke England Ross Fisher
11 30 Jan 2011 Volvo Golf Champions –20 (67-67-66-68=268) 1 stroke Sweden Peter Hanson, Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez

1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

European Tour playoff record (2–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2004 Celtic Manor Wales Open England Simon Khan Lost to birdie on second extra hole
2 2005 TCL Classic Republic of Ireland Paul McGinley Won with birdie on second extra hole
3 2005 (2006 season) Volvo China Open England Oliver Wilson Won with birdie on first extra hole

Other wins (2) [edit]

Results in major championships [edit]

Tournament 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
The Masters DNP DNP T6 CUT DNP T10 T11 T20 CUT T38 CUT
U.S. Open DNP CUT CUT WD 15 T10 T65 CUT T40 CUT DNP
The Open Championship CUT CUT T20 CUT 71 T27 T7 T47 T3 T54 CUT
PGA Championship CUT 66 CUT T59 CUT T40 T15 DNP T12 T72 CUT

DNP = Did not play
WD = withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary [edit]

  • Starts – 38
  • Wins – 0
  • 2nd place finishes – 0
  • 3rd place finishes – 1
  • Top 3 finishes – 1
  • Top 5 finishes – 1
  • Top 10 finishes – 5
  • Top 25 finishes – 11
  • Missed cuts – 15
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 9
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2

Results in World Golf Championship events [edit]

Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Accenture Match Play Championship R64 R64 R64 R64 QF R16
Cadillac Championship T8 T21 DNP T56 T9 T51
Bridgestone Invitational T17 T16 T19 T4 T51 T8
Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012
Accenture Match Play Championship 2 2 R32 DNP
Cadillac Championship T31 T6 T18 T51
Bridgestone Invitational WD T22 T45 DNP
HSBC Champions WD T6 T4 DNP

DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances [edit]

Amateur

Professional

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "Casey holds on for Wentworth win". BBC Sport. 24 May 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2009. 
  2. ^ a b "Casey Set On No. 1; Third-ranked golfer looking to justify his spot". New York Daily News. 17 June 2009. p. 54. 
  3. ^ "Week 3 - Paul Casey Wins the Abu Dhabi Championship and Reaches World Number 13". Official World Golf Ranking. 22 January 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2012. 
  4. ^ "Casey apologises for 'hate' jibe". BBC Sport. 18 November 2004. Retrieved 8 August 2012. 
  5. ^ "Casey clinches maiden PGA victory". BBC Sport. 5 April 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2009. 
  6. ^ "Week 14 - Paul Casey Wins the Shell Houston Open and Jumps to World Number Six". Official World Golf Ranking. 5 April 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2012. 
  7. ^ "Paul Casey wins first title for 20 months in Bahrain". BBC Sport. 30 January 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011. 
  8. ^ "Paul Casey beats Jhonattan Vegas in skins game shootout". CBC Sports. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2011. 

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