Sam Torrance

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Contents 1 European Tour wins 2 European Seniors Tour wins 3 Other wins 4 Team appearances 5 Results in major championships 6 See also 7 External links

Sam Torrance (born 24 August 1953) is a Scottish golfer who was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s and was the winning non-playing captain of the European Ryder Cup team in 2002.

Torrance turned professional at 16 and joined the European Tour at seventeen. He achieved his first professional win in 1972 and his first European Tour win in 1976. He won twenty-one times on the European Tour; only fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie has accumulated more European Tour titles without winning one of golf's four major championships. His best finish on the European Tour Order of Merit was second, which he achieved in 1984 and 1995. In total he finished in the top ten on the list ten times. In 2003 Torrance became eligible to play in senior tournaments and he picked up his first win on the European Seniors Tour in 2004. He topped the European Seniors Tour's Order of Merit in both 2005 and 2006.

Torrance played for Europe in the Ryder Cup eight times. In 1985 he sank the winning putt which deprived the Americans of the trophy for the first times in twenty-eight years. Seventeen years later he was the non-playing captain on the European team which won the 2002 Cup at The Belfry. This made him the first European Captain to sink the winning put and Captain a winning team at separate Ryder Cups.

Torrance married English actress Suzanne Danielle in 1988. He was awarded an MBE in 1996 for services to golf and an OBE in the 2003 New Year Honours List for his captaincy of Europe's Ryder Cup team.

[edit] European Tour wins

• 1976 Piccadilly Medal, Martini International
• 1981 Carroll's Irish Open
• 1982 Benson & Hedges Spanish Open, Portuguese Open
• 1983 Scandinavian Enterprise Open, Portuguese Open
• 1984 Tunisian Open, Benson & Hedges International Open, Sanyo Open
• 1985 Johnnie Walker Monte Carlo Open
• 1987 Lancia Italian Open
• 1990 Mercedes German Masters
• 1991 Jersey European Airways Open
• 1993 Kronenbourg Open, Heineken Open, Honda Open
• 1995 Italian Open, Murphy's Irish Open, Collingtree British Masters
• 1998 Peugeot Open de France

[edit] European Seniors Tour wins

• 2004 Travis Perkins Senior Masters
• 2005 Irvine Whitlock Seniors Classic, De Vere PGA Seniors Championship, Bendinat London Seniors Masters
• 2006 Sharp Italian Seniors Open, AIB Irish Seniors Open, PGA Seniors Championship, Scottish Seniors Open

[edit] Other wins

• 1972 Radici Open (Italy), Under-25 Match Play Championship
• 1975 Zambian Open
• 1978 Scottish Professional Championship
• 1979 Colombian Open
• 1980 Australian PGA Championship, Scottish Professional Championship
• 1983 C* Scottish PGA Championship (Challenge Tour)
• 1985 Scottish Professional Championship
• 1991 Scottish Professional Championship
• 1993 Scottish Professional Championship

[edit] Team appearances

• Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1981, 1983, 1985 (winners), 1987 (winners), 1989 (tied and retained trophy), 1991, 1993, 1995 (winners), 2002 (non-playing captain of winning team)
• Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Scotland): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995 (winning team), 1999
• World Cup (representing Scotland): 1976, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
• Four Tours World Championship: 1985, 1991 (winning captain)
• Hennessy Cognac Cup: 1976 (winners), 1978 (winners), 1980 (winners), 1982 (winners), 1984
• Double Diamond: 1973 (winners), 1976, 1977
• UBS Cup: 2001, 2002, 2003

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T46	CUT	CUT	T19	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T31	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T38	5	12	T53	T9	T16	T21	T50	T48	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T33	DNP	CUT	T39	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T21	DNP	T16	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP
The Open Championship	T39	T44	CUT	T51	CUT	T11	CUT	CUT	T23	DNP	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	T30	T23	CUT	T45	DNP	DNP	CUT

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10

[edit] See also

• Golfers with most European Tour wins

[edit] External links

• Profile on the European Tour's official site
• Golf Stars Online - links to features and profiles