Peter Thomson (golfer)
| Peter Thomson | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Peter William Thomson |
| Born |
23 August 1929 Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Nationality |
 Australia
|
| Spouse | Mary Thomson |
| Children | Diana, Andrew, Peta-Ann, Fiona |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1949 |
| Former tour(s) |
PGA Tour European Tour Australasian Tour Senior PGA Tour |
| Professional wins | 86 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 6 |
| European Tour | 1 |
| Japan Golf Tour | 1 |
| PGA Tour of Australasia | 32 |
| PGA Tour Champions | 11 |
| Other | 35 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 5) |
|
| Masters Tournament | 5th: 1957 |
| U.S. Open | T4: 1956 |
| The Open Championship | Won: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965 |
| PGA Championship | DNP |
| Achievements and awards | |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 1988 (member page) |
|
Arnold Palmer Award (Champions Tour) |
1986 |
Peter William Thomson AO, CBE (born 23 August 1929) is an Australian professional golfer. He is best remembered for his five wins in The Open Championship.
Thomson was born in Brunswick, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia. His Open Championship wins came in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1965. He was the only man to win the tournament for three consecutive years in the 20th century.
Thomson was a prolific tournament champion around the world, winning the national championships of ten countries, including the New Zealand Open nine times. He competed on the PGA Tour in 1953 and 1954 with relatively little success (finishing 44th and 25th on the Money List), and after that was an infrequent competitor. However, in 1956, playing in just eight events, he won the rich Texas International, and achieved his best finish in one of the three majors staged in the United States (fourth at the U.S. Open), to finish ninth on the Money List.
In the era that Thomson won his first four Open Championships, very few of the leading professionals from the United States travelled to Britain to play in that event. At that time, the prize money in the Open was insufficient even for an American to cover expenses if he won. However, Thomson demonstrated with his win in 1965 that he could beat a field of the world's very best players, as that victory came against a field that included Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tony Lema, three of the top four American golfers from the 1964 Money List.
Thomson enjoyed a successful senior career. In 1985 he won nine times on the Senior PGA Tour in the United States, and finished top of the money list. His last tournament victory came at the 1988 British PGA Seniors Championship. He was president of the Australian PGA from 1962 to 1994 and a victorious non-playing captain of the international team in the 1998 Presidents Cup.
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